Artists and Hackers

2020

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Artists and Hackers is a podcast dedicated to the community that is building and using new digital tools for creation.

The podcast interviews programmers, artists, poets, musician, bot-makers, educators, students, and designers in an effort to critically look at both online artmaking and the history of technology and the internet. The pocast’s website serves to both host the podcast and provide a central hub through which interested individuals can find new tools to learn and integrate into their own practices.

In an attempt to replicate the project of the podcast, to humanize and materialize a topic often considered inaccessible, the website and social media posts follow an organic and familiar visual language, creating a friendly environment for listeners to learn and ask questions.

Good question!

How does fiction theorize differently from theory?

How does sound build boundaries that delineate one location from another? How does sound's inherent leakiness disrupt this construction?

Can you even look at the following question at it without hearing it? I can’t. Isn’t that amazing?

Does “oooo----ocyT----jPaa” provide you with a compelling visual experience? It follows the rule of thirds…

If so, what does it do when it ‘seen’ without being ‘heard’?

Is a word a picture?

If making visual artwork is a way of working through an idea using visual means, how is writing different? Each is observed with the eyes, one is explicitly noisy and the other may or may not be.

What other images outside of letters are ‘read’? What do these sound like?

If these there exist relationships between symbol, meaning, and sound, can one manipulate the symbol to modulate its imagined sound and its meaning while maintaining its demand to be ‘read’?

What is the relationship between text as a symbol (icon/image), its meaning, and its sound?

Can a picture sound like what it means? Can it sound far from what it means? Can it sound without meaning anything at all?

Can a picture be a word?

Do ideas sound like something?

Inversely, when you see ❤️‍🔥, do you hear something that you can’t quite place?

How do you ask someone to ‘read’ an image as they would a text?

Updated Apr-25-25