ŠUM POD
Episodes
Operative fictions with Mikkel Rørbo
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mikkel Rørbo, a producer of cultural detritus and interdisciplinary researcher on hyperstition, abductive inference, reality-production and desire. M...
Invernomuto with Brandon Rosenbluth
27 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brandon Rosenbluth speaks with Italian artist duo Invernomuto about networked creation, sound as a medium for tracing history, challenging the art ins...
Metaphysical Männerbund’s Hegelian E-girl Apocalypse Fallout Kit with Joel Anselm Dietz & Edwin Klint Bywater
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joel Anselm Dietz and Edwin Klint Bywater submitted a response article to Anna K. Winters’s “Hegelian e-girl manifesto” in ŠUM #22 Angel Mode. ...
Feral Metaverse with Theo Triantafyllidis
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Theo Triantafyllidis, the artist behind multiplayer video game Feral Metaverse joins us on the pod to discuss the ideas, mechanics and the experience ...
Poetics of Encryption with Nadim Samman
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Curator and writer Nadim Samman talks about his research and curatorial approach, the notion of the Technocene, the esoteric imaginary surrounding con...
ARIA Transmission / Lucia Pietroiusti & Lukáš Likavčan
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lucia Pietroiusti and Lukáš Likavčan discussing rituals of mourning, secular mysticism, relationship between technology and sacred tendencies, role...
ARIA Transmission / Alice Bucknell, Tom K Kemp & Klara Kofen
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode brings a discussion with Alice Bucknell, Tom K Kemp and Klara Kofen following their lectures at ARIA's Worlds’ End Symposium. We talke...
Omsk Social Club on Real Game Play methodology and politics, ending worlds, and educational potential of role-play
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we reconnect with the world of ARIA in anticipation of its upcoming edition and sit down with Omsk Social Club, a sprawling artistic c...
On roleplay, mystical theology and embracing the unknowing with Áron Birtalan
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brandon Rosenbluth talks with artist Áron Birtalan about the politics and potentials of roleplay, mystical theology’s embrace of unknowing, attunin...
Ethnoarchaeology, Noise & Cassette Culture: An Interview With Lenhart Tapes
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jaša Bužinel sat down with Serbian musician Vladimir Lenhart aka Lenhart Tapes whose music has become known as 'ethno noise'...
On emo-romantic art, fiction and offsite shows, Venice Biennale, and enchanting the world differently with Tina Poliačková and Noemi Purkrábková
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two Prague curators and theorists, Tina Poliačková and Noemi Purkrábková, discuss their work, recent trends in contemporary visual art and beyond,...
Disentangling the Phoenix Complex with Michael Marder / ARIA
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this third ARIA transmission, Michael Marder disentangles the phoenix complex and takes us on a journey through the mechanisms of natural and socia...
Anthropoforming for a Weird Planet with Michael Marder, Špela Petrič, Protektorama toxica and Simon Speiser / ARIA
21 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The second transmission from ARIA brings a discussion with Michael Marder, Špela Petrič, Protektorama toxica and Simon Speiser. Hosted by Brandon Ro...
Unsorcery, practiced concepts with Florin Flueras / ARIA
21 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The first transmission from ARIA brings a talk by Florin Flueras about Unsorcery, a concept and practice exploring ways of sorcery that can eventually...
Simon Speiser on storytelling, AR dance, deep histories and digitally recreated rainforest lighting
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Speiser, a Berlin based artist talks about blending virtual reality and ancestral folklore, weaving science fiction with non-western conceptions...
András Cséfalvay on trilobites in mourning, ancestral memories, speculative storytelling, limitations of Western technics, and Death Stranding
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
András Cséfalvay, a Bratislava-based artist on extinction, ancestral memories imprinted in the mammalian brain, mourning trilobites, limitations of ...
Holly Childs & Gediminas Žygus on their multimedia practice, post-Truth zones, future folklores, rave culture and more
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Under the mentorship of Metahaven, Holly Childs’ practice of post-Anthropocenic poetics and Gediminas Žygus’s post-club sound worlding have inter...
On fictional ecosystem of strange entities and tiny gods with Iglooghost
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UK-based artist and producer Iglooghost interviewed about his otherworldly laptop music, artwork, puzzles, strange online artefacts and other multimed...
Comparative planetology, geopolitics of “spectral Earth”, post-anthropocentric design and art practice with Lukáš Likavčan
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shanghai-based Slovak philosopher Lukáš Likavčan interviewed about comparative planetology, geopolitics of “spectral Earth”, post-anthropocentr...
Sound design, games and worldbuilding of Awoo with BCAA System and Oliver Torr
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the fourth episode of ŠUM Pod two members of the Prague-based polyfunctional collective BCAA System (Bilej Kluk, Reality Congress) and sound artis...
On creating new worlds, writing with GPT-3, fiction, and magic with Alice Bucknell
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the third episode of Šum Pod we interview North American London-based writer, artist and organiser of New Mystics and New Worlds Alice Bucknell. &...
On cosmology, time, sigils and asemic writing with Heith
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mystical Milanese music producer Heith (new album ‘X, wheel’ out via PAN) interviewed about cosmology, time, sigils, asemic writing, Indonesia, an...
Jelena Viskovic on worldbuilding with game engines and situationist utopias
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the very first episode of Šum Pod we host London based artist and software developer Jelena Viskovic. We discuss her solo show Volumes: New Babylo...