USURPATOR Pod
Live Coding with Viola He
Daze with Willem Simons
I'm So Non-Physical, Part 2: Kit Volta
Listening with Norm
I'm So Non-Physical, Part 1: Lilith
Concepting with Yatú
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Today, we’re joined by Viola He, a Shanghai-born, Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist, live-coder, educator, and cultural organizer. We talk about their foray into live coding, the meaning of interactive art, and the barrier to entry of learning new technological tools. You can follow Viola on their Instagram, visit their site, or check out LiveCodeNYC. Read the highlights of our conversation on the site.
USURPATOR is joined by Willem Simons, founder of Daze, co-founder of Muze, and one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 for 2022. During our conversation, we discuss creative communication tools, the trajectory of popular social media apps, and building ideas based on gut instinct. As always, you can read the highlights of our talk on the site, or follow Willem on Instagram
Today, we're joined with Kit Volta, a creative technologist and XR artist based in NYC. During our conversation, we discuss self-expression through art, our virtual selves, how they blend the physical and virtual through AR, and the effects of living fragments of our lives online. You can follow Kit on Instagram and Twitter. You can also read the highlights of our conversation on usurpatormag.com
Last week, USURPATOR joined Norm O’Hagan in Listening Labs. Norm is a creative explorer, musician, artist, co-founder of Teal Process, and co-runner of The Factory, which is where Listening Labs is held. We talk about collaborative spaces, imaginative world-building, and interactive listening experiences. You can follow Norm on Instagram, check out Listening Labs, or Teal Process. You can read the highlights of our conversation on usurpatormag.com
We are joined by Lilith & Avatar Lilith— one person, different fragments. They are a 3D artist, designer, performance artist, musician, and creative technologist based in Brooklyn. Part one of two, this interview starts off a series where we talk to artists about their practice that involves virtual selves. During our conversation, we discuss Lilith’s performance art, the birth of their avatar, and philosophize the notion of our digital presence—how it represents fragments of our subjectivity, and how it takes on its own agency. You can read a shortened version of our interview on our site, or follow Lilith and Avatar Lilith on Instagram, or visit their website.
Yatú is an Artist-Founder based in NYC, who joined USURPATOR for a conversation about his work. We talk about his projects USB Club and Teal Process, we also discuss virtual and IRL collaboration spaces, the value of physical space, virtual catalog, and our concept of time.
USURPATOR sat down with friend of the pod Josh Harris and had a conversation about the down-trend of crypto, what’s still going on in the space, and what keeps him involved.