Velvet Theory

Episode 15 • The Dream

26 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

January 17, 2025 • 11:39 PM - January 19, 2025 • 3:23 AM The Dream

Episode 14 • Inner Fingers w/ Simmy

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 13 • Havana Syndrome / Cowllerina Suite (Performed Live at Ugly Duck)

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Ian Douglass gives an artist talk about his Havana Syndrome Theorem painting and Cowllerina series while experiencing emergent sympto...

Episode 12 • Primordial Scenery w/ Sophia Loeb

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I speak with artist Sophia Loeb about her relationship to nature, painting, meditation, and how they all coalesce in her art practice. Later, she take...

Episode 11 • Towards a Radical Feminism w/ Salomé Jacques

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Salomé Jacques is a writer and curator based in London. We speak about radical feminism, female rage, Charlotte Corday, violence, gender binaries, po...

Episode 10 • Models of Abstraction w/ Asher Arataki

21 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I talk to philosopher Asher Arataki about effective altruism, animal ethics, speciesism, pain, evolutionary optimization, empathy, se...

Episode 9 • Untitled (Other Doors)

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nondescript sonic entity (explicit)

Episode 8 • Solemn Splendour w/ Kimberley Burrows

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Velvet Theory. What follows is a conversation and sounds w/ Kimberley Burrows. Here is an excerpt from her Royal College of Art gradua...

Episode 7 • Apocalypse When?

10 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With so much drama in this world all the time, with ever-more looming and ominous headlines in the eternal news cycle, the question doth beckon: Apoca...

Episode 6 • Conjure Your Own Reality w/ Dr. Yvette Dzumaga

18 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, host Ian Douglass and Dr. Yvette Dzumaga discuss the relationship between technology and medicine, debate digital art, predictions of...

Episode 4 • Moon in the Mirror w/ Jinseon Chon

23 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On a stormy night in London, two friends ask each other ten questions about mirrors, the moon, and the most beautiful thing they've ever seen. Lat...

Episode 3 • Gold Got Her Freedom w/ Morvarid Alavifard

14 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Host Ian Douglass speaks with interdisciplinary artist and jewelry designer Morvarid Alavifard about gold, freedom, the poetry and perils of materiali...

Episode 2 • Back and Forth Forever w/ Rosalind Howdle

23 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Ian speaks with artist Rosalind Howdle about the eternal back-and-forth of form and content in painting, they talk (a little) s*** ab...

Episode 1 • Towards a Velvet Theory (Spiral)

14 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

• Welcome to Velvet Theory • In this first episode, host and artist Ian Douglass tries to explain what a velvet theory is and delivers his artist ...