Art Is Not a Thing

In today’s episode, host Hannah Balber talks about gun violence in the United States with American visual artists and filmmakers Ryat Yezbick and Milo Talwani. Their project The Innocence of Unknowing is an AI-driven animation that interrogates how mass shootings are mediated, remembered, and normalised through news imagery. The project uses AI to analyse news media coverage of mass shootings in the United States since the 1960s. This immersive essay film - performed live by Ryat Yezbick, Milo Talwani, and the AI humanities scholar they built - examines our role as spectators of mass shootings while illustrating the history of the evolving media landscape. 
This episode of Art Is Not a Thing is produced by Ars Electronica and developed in collaboration with Radio Ö1. 
Host: Hannah Balber 
Producers: Ana-Maria Carabelea, Christopher Sonnleitner, Marlene Grinner
Editing: Yazdan Zand  
Music: Karl Julian Schmidinger  
Ars Electronica:
https://ars.electronica.art/
https://www.instagram.com/arselectronica/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/arselectronica  
Resources:
The Innocence of Unknowing
Ryat Yezbick
Milo Talwani

In today’s episode, host Hannah Balber discusses rumors, power, and the way narratives are crafted, manipulated, and distorted: from the political intrigues of the Mughal court to today’s AI-driven media environment. Our guest is the Indian-American artist and researcher Parag Mital. His recent project, The Game of Whispers, is an interactive and generative artwork that creates a society of autonomous AI characters whose speech, alliances, and conflicts evolve through their actions and interactions. 
This episode of Art Is Not a Thing is produced by Ars Electronica and developed in collaboration with Radio Ö1. 
Host: Hannah Balber 
Producers: Ana-Maria Carabelea, Christopher Sonnleitner, Marlene Grinner
Editing: Yazdan Zand  
Music: Karl Julian Schmidinger  
Ars Electronica:
https://ars.electronica.art/
https://www.instagram.com/arselectronica/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/arselectronica  
Resources:
Parag K Mital

In today’s episode, host Hannah Balber discusses the agency and design capabilities of fungi with our guest Feifei Zhou. Feifei is an architect and artist who co-curated Fungi. Anarchist Designers together with anthropologist Anna Tsing. The exhibition asks what happens when we stop thinking of fungi as materials or resources and instead recognize them as designers and try to learn from them about coexistence and survival, especially in time of ecological crisis. 
This episode of Art Is Not a Thing is produced by Ars Electronica and developed in collaboration with Radio Ö1. 
Host: Hannah Balber 
Producers: Ana-Maria Carabelea, Christopher Sonnleitner, Marlene Grinner
Editing: Yazdan Zand  
Music: Karl Julian Schmidinger  
Ars Electronica:
https://ars.electronica.art/
https://www.instagram.com/arselectronica/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/arselectronica  
Resources:
Feifei Zhou
Fungi. Anarchist Designers
terriStories

In today’s episode, host Hannah Balber discusses digital doubles, identity and a new kind of technological theater with Finnish media artist Hanna Haaslahti. Her most recent work, Ancestors focuses on exploring the narrative possibilities of digital doubles. In an immersive room, AI-generated versions of the visitors begin to reproduce with one another. The work raises questions about identity, individualism, and kinship in the future.
This episode of Art Is Not a Thing is produced by Ars Electronica and developed in collaboration with Radio Ö1.
Host: Hannah Balber
Producers: Ana-Maria Carabelea, Christopher Sonnleitner, Marlene Grinner 
Editing: Yazdan Zand 
Music: Karl Julian Schmidinger 
Ars Electronica:
https://ars.electronica.art/
https://www.instagram.com/arselectronica/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/arselectronica 
Resources:
Hanna Haaslahti

This episode kicks off a new season, produced in cooperation with Radio Ö1–Austria’s leading cultural voice. Today, radio journalist Hannah Balber from Radio Ö1 talks to American artist and technologist Mindy Seu about sex and its influence on the internet. Mindy’s work combines archival research on cyberfeminism, online communities, and the histories embedded in the web with experimental forms of publishing and lecturing, questioning how digital infrastructures shape power, identity and knowledge. 
Art Is Not a Thing is produced by Ars Electronica and developed in collaboration with Radio Ö1.
Host: Hannah Balber
Producers: Ana-Maria Carabelea, Christopher Sonnleitner, Marlene Grinner 
Editing: Yazdan Zand 
Music: Karl Julian Schmidinger 
Ars Electronica:
https://ars.electronica.art/
https://www.instagram.com/arselectronica/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/arselectronica 
Resources:
A Sexual History of the Internet