Ultradilute Podcast
Episodes
Colin Self on Building Worlds, Slaying Doom, and the Health of Creative Practice | Ultradilute Podcast
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We explore why, after major institutional commissions, smaller rooms often hold bigger truths. The dialogue traces how tech burnout led them toward ph...
Joon Lee & Tracy Steepy on Creative Block, Healing, and the Body's Truth | Ultradilute Podcast
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We explore what gets sacrificed in a world designed for extraction, and how to protect a creative practice in spaces that compress it. This dialogue r...
From Classroom to Clinic: Opening a Homeopathy Practice, with Kristina Jermain | Ultradilute Podcast
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Now, just one month into her practice at North Star Homeopathy, we discuss what it means to practice real medicine that is powerful enough to cause re...
Shaun Leonardo on The Body's Truth, Artistic Gesture, and Healing Trauma | Ultradilute Podcast
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
His methodology strips away narrative to access what he calls the "choreography of how we've learned to move in reaction to what happened to us"—the...
Roddy Schrock on Creative Health, Radical Healing, and the Ultradilute Principle | Ultradilute Podcast
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing from his decade directing a major arts nonprofit and nearly thirty years of Zen practice, Schrock examines the unique health challenges faced ...
Getting the Story: A Conversation with Zachary Small
02 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's conversation is with Zachary Small, staff reporter for the NY Times. I have been following their arts journalism since they wrote for Hyperall...
Embracing Juxtaposition: Prem Krishnamurthy
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today's conversation is with Prem Krishnamurthy, designer, author, and educator. His multifaceted work explores the role of art as an agent of transfo...
Conditions for Creativity: Ruby Lerner
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you are an artist, or someone who cares about the health and wellbeing of the arts in the United States, I think you will find this conversation to...
What Does It Mean To Have A Body?: Sara Wookey
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to have a body that moves in three dimensional space in our current time? How do cultural institutions better relate to the public i...
Infrastructure As Ideology
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
My friend, the designer and artist, Mushon Zer-Aviv was in town a few months ago so we sat down to catch up. Having worked in open, values-driven desi...
Woo, With Rigor: Deborah Fisher
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Deborah has a reputation as an innovative arts leader here in New York. Over the past couple of years, she has fully transformed into a sharp-eyed a...
Artwork as Service: Constant Dullaart
20 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are a handful of contemporary net artists for whom I have particular affection. Constant Dullaart is one of them. Since I first learned of his w...
De-Escalating Complexities: Jonathon Keats
13 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As we enter these long, hot days of this unusual year, I'll be releasing three special episodes that aim to provide some dreamy inspiration for late s...
Talismanic Media: B Covington
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
B Covington, a multi-modal sound artist whose work is as formally challenging as it is joyfully satisfying, was in New York last month and sat down fo...
Ways of Being: James Bridle
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
James Bridle imagines new modes of invention and engagement inspired from relationships with non-human beings. He's a fascinating thinker and this is ...
Deepfake Auto-Fiction: K Allado-McDowell
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I first heard about K when they were active in the electronic music scene of the bay area in the early 2000's. I've enjoyed following their work from ...
New Art Infrastructures: Julia Kaganskiy
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I really enjoyed this chance to catch up with her and hear what she's seeing as being exciting developments in the fields of art, technology, and scie...
Technoshamanist Art: Angelo Plessas
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"As an artist I am trying to see the hidden connections between things and trying to understand things that I feel as a person that thinks in slightly...
Digital Intimacies: Mendi+Keith Obadike
12 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's always a pleasure to be in conversation with Mendi and Keith Obadike. The sound art duo have been working together for 25 years, which gives them...
Difference Machines: Paul Vanouse and Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I had the privilege of visiting an insightful and rich exhibition at Albright-Knox, Buffalo, last month. Co-curated by curator and art historian Dr. T...
Technology Is Nature: Tamiko Thiel
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There are so many fascinating stories to be told about the present and future of technology in the arts, especially in this moment of a profound, digi...
Making Worlds With Words: Zach Lieberman
28 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Zach Lieberman is one of the leading creative coders and digital artists in the world. And what I love about the way Zach works is that he is equally ...
How Algorithmic Are You: Lauren Lee McCarthy
31 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I’m excited to share this fascinating conversation with LA-based artist Lauren Lee McCarthy. She reminds us that, actually, creating technology is o...
Living In Upgrade Culture: Julia Christensen
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve known Julia Christensen for quite a long time, since we were both graduate students at Mills College in Oakland in fact. One of my first memori...
Save The World and Have Parties: Mutale Nkonde
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last month, I had the opportunity to speak to Mutale Nkonde about her work in leading AI For The People, a non-profit communications agency that utili...
Building Cultural Democracy: Gonzalo Casals
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve known Commissioner Casals for a number of years, since his time at the Highline, where he was creating very forward looking public art programs...
I Had To Make This: Bassem Saad
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bassem Saad has a background in design and architecture, and he talks about how viewing a Shana Moultin piece at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris triggere...
Cyborgian Living: Lynn Hershman Leeson
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lynn Hershman Leeson and Roddy Schrock discuss everything from tech's origins in porn and military research as well as the challenges she faced of wor...
Magic In Action: Jesse Darling
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On episode two, I had the immense pleasure of taking part in a wide-ranging conversation with Jesse Darling, a Berlin-based artist whose work has been...
Full Pro-topia: Stephanie Dinkins
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stephanie Dinkins speaks about always being on the edge of technology, while becoming disillusioned with careers in publishing and advertising as well...
Houses of AI: Kate Crawford
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this inaugural episode, it’s a pleasure to be in conversation with Kate Crawford. I’ve known Kate for quite a few years; I’ve invited her to ...