Technoculture
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
#48 The psychology of the metaverse
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Technoculture podcast explores how digital technology influences our lives, our experiences, and ultimately what it means to be human today. Now, if w...
#47 Collaborative couples in science
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about collaborative couples in science, i.e. men and women who work in science and who are partners, husband and wife, sometimes lover...
#46 Science & trust
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Science as we know it today is an institutionalized social practice, with a mechanism designed to distribute trust and credibility. Trust IN science a...
#45 Longevity and the digitization of health
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Extending the human life with science and technology will re-shape society. It is not just a matter of living longer and healthier. We need to prepare...
#44 Space 2.0: A spacefaring species
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Space travel may not be an impossible dream anymore. Access to a diverse pool of talents is a great asset, and ESA's new cohort of astronauts reflects...
#43 The science of complex systems and COVID-19
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Yaneer Bar-Yam is the founding president of the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) in Cambridge, MA. An MIT-trained physicist, Yaneer combi...
#42 Audio mastering
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mastering is a crucial step in the production of a music record, but not everybody knows what it is. What does a mastering engineer do? I asked the be...
#41 A provoking, plausible, and desirable future
06 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to study the future? Nobody can predict the future. But we can look at emergent signals, signals of change, that reveal where we are...
#40 The artistic gesture: Research at CCRMA
17 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
John Chowning means FM synthesis to everyone in the audio community worldwide. But the man is no less extraordinary than his discovery. Co-founder of ...
#39 Scientific balloon missions
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
José V. Siles is a radio frequency engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. His research area is known as plantary...
#38 Music, technology, and social meaning
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Margouleff doesn't like to live in history, but "he knows he's made some." After a lifetime of achievements, he still looks ahead and experimen...
#37 Spirituality and quantum physics: The scientific study of consciousness (Extra) ITALIANO
30 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bonus content for episode #37 with Federico Faggin. After our regular interview in English, I decided to interview Federico Faggin again in Italian, a...
#37 Spirituality and quantum physics: The scientific study of consciousness
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's hard to imagine the world without the microprocessor. And without the touchscreen. We owe both inventions to one man, Federico Faggin. An innovat...
#36 Fulbright and international exchange programs
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rick Ruth, Senior Advisor at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, talks about the importance of investing i...
#35 The big ideas of physics: Between what and why (Extra)
02 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bonus content for episode #35. I challenged Bibhushan to explain some complex concepts of physics in simple terms. The first concept is supersimmetry ...
#35 The big ideas of physics: Between what and why
02 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When we ask questions about ourselves, our place in the universe... we are also asking questions about the universe: we are part of it and made of the...
#34 Living history
30 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Technoculture inaugurates its second season with an episode that might seem outside the scope of the podcast. Why travel back in time? What do the Vik...
#33 Mixed reality and spatial computing
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Do you know the difference between virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality? Hear Ward Peeters, pioneer of spatial computing, explain why...
#32 The preservation of electroacoustic music
18 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Serge Lemouton is an expert in the preservation of the electroacoustic music produced at IRCAM, the renowned art and research center in Paris where he...
#31 The future of work: Will robots steal our jobs?
28 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Will robots steal our job? Seriously, come on. Sci-fi is cool, but unemployment affects real people. If you are a person, or know someone who is a per...
#30 The hero myth and the rhetoric of science
29 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Science is foremost a human activity. The celebration of "heroes" like Einstein and Marie Curie gives the false impression that scientific discoveries...
#29 Charting culture
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Maximilian Schich's research work combines hermeneutics, information visualization, computer science, and physics to understand art, history, and cult...
#28 Digital Humanities
22 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Aleš Vaupotič is a literary comparatist and a curator. His work is in the Digital Humanities and is concerned with the building, managing, and study...
#27 Ubiquitous Music
19 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ubiquitous Music is a new area of research that encompasses ubiquitous computing, mobile and networked music, eco-composition and cooperative composit...
#26 Cybersecurity
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cybersecurity is fascinating and scary at the same time. Right? Patrick Wheeler, expert in cybersecurity and technology, explains how cybersecurity is...
#25 Authorship attribution
27 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that your writing style can give away your identity? Mike Kestemont is an expert in authorship attribution, a field of study that applies...
#24 Film archiving and restoration
23 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Giovanna Fossati is Chief Curator at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam and Professor of Film Heritage and Digital Film Culture at the University of Amst...
#23 The ferociously interactive media of a creative force of nature
20 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret Schedel is Associate Professor of Music at Stony Brook University in NY, and a creative force of nature. I've recently nominated her my Woman...
#22 Digitality and its consequences
07 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Everything has its consequences, including digitality. But what are they? Are they positive or negative? Robin Boast is Professor of Cultural Informa...
#21 Podcast preservation
04 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As both a popular mass medium and a platform for underrepresented voice, podcasts have cultural significance and scholarly value. But will they endur...
#20 Exploring the limits of knowing: Technoscientifically motivated art
29 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Salter is an artist, Concordia University Research Chair in New Media and the Senses, Co-Director of the Hexagram Network and of the Milieux Ins...
#19 Playful Interactive Environments
24 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jürgen Hagler is the head of the research group "Playful interactive environments" at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences. He studies Vi...
#18 The audio engineer of books: It helps not to know him well
18 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Romaniello is a Grammy® award-winning audio engineer and producer, with numerous nominations for engineering and producingRichard Romaniello ...
#17 Installation or performance: The art of art making
12 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brent Lee is first and foremost a Canadian musician and an art maker. He has some of the most fascinating - and useful, which is important - theories ...
#16 Meaningful entrepreneurship
05 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bruno Jehle is the embodiment of an extraordinary range of talents: trained as a photo lithographer, he embraced and mastered the revolution in digita...
#15 Redefining death: The neurosciences understanding of human consciousness
27 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Laureays leads the Coma Science Group at the GIGA Consciouness Centre of the University of Liège in Belgium. He applies the scientific method ...
#14 The Endangered Guitar: An interactive hybrid between a guitar and a computer
22 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hans Tammen's music performance has been called "a killer tour de force of post-everything guitar damage". I asked him why, and the response is a summ...
#13 The Open Science movement
16 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sabina Leonelli is an expert in Open Science, a movement that promotes 'openness', transparency, participation, and innovation in science. She is pr...
#12 Slow VR: Welcome to Dr. Baker's Magic Garden
07 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Frederick Baker is Research Associate at the Centre for Film Studies at Cambridge University. But he is also the author of the Virtual Reality Exp...
#11 Immortality through science and technology: From transhumanism to quantum archeology
03 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Zoltan Istvan is the "global leader of the transhumanist movement" (The Mirror). The "embodiment of the Californian, libertarian, start-up culture tec...
#10 A lifelong engagement with sound recording and audio tape restoration
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Hess is a walking encyclopedia on everything related to sound and audio, from live recording to the restoration of historical collections of ...
#9 Creating value from cultural data in the age of digital transformation
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Europeana is the largest digital repository of cultural data in the world. Listen to Harry Verwayen, Executive Director of the Europeana Foundation, t...
#8 Speech and language technology: People are not dictionaries
12 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A giant of computational linguistics, Mark Liberman has participated in the evolution of research in this field towards a model of quantitative, repli...
#7 A long term love affair with science: Happy birthday Marie Curie
06 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Technoculture celebrates the legendary Madame Curie on her birthday (Nov. 7th, 1867) with a special episode on her life and her legacy in conversation...
#6 Scientia vincere tenebras: The man behind the robot orchestra
02 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Godfried-Willem Raes is a polymath of our times. He is the founder of the Logos Foundation based in Ghent, Belgium, which celebrate 50 years of activi...
#5 Digital forensics: A detective in the archive
31 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Thorsten Ries is a Marie Sklodowska Curie program fellow at the Sussex Humanities Lab / HAHP at the University of Sussex, UK, and a senior postdocto...
#4 Audiovisual archiving
27 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ray Edmondson is a pioneer of film and sound archiving, and an international leader in preserving, restoring, interpreting and presenting audiovisual ...
#3 Computers and ecosystems: The art of supporting life in outer space
26 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Angelo Vermeulen is a space systems researcher, biologist, artist, and keynote speaker. In 2009 he co-founded SEAD (Space Ecologies Art and Design), a...
#2 European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH)
25 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
2018 is the European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH). Lorena Aldana is part of the task force in charge of the implementation of the Year. Lorena tel...
#1 EuroScience: Our Voice On Research in Europe
23 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first episode of Technoculture! My first guest is Michael Matlosz, Distinguished Professor of chemical engineering at the Universit...