This episode kicks off a new season, produced in cooperation with Radio Ö1–Austria’s leading cultural voice. Today, radio journalist Hannah Balber from Radio Ö1 talks to American artist and technologist Mindy Seu about sex and its influence on the internet. Mindy’s work combines archival research on cyberfeminism, online communities, and the histories embedded in the web with experimental forms of publishing and lecturing, questioning how digital infrastructures shape power, identity and knowledge. Art Is Not a Thing is produced by Ars Electronica and developed in collaboration with Radio Ö1. Host: Hannah Balber Producers: Ana-Maria Carabelea...
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We see how a lot of these tools have shaped the development of new sexual desires. When we see these kinks around parental controls or a restriction, when we think about how we can access certain content and how we want to pay people for things that aren't even necessarily sexual,
it really makes you question like what exactly is sex and what exactly is technology. Welcome to Art is Not a Thing, the podcast series about art as a practice of critical inquiry, knowledge, production, and world building. My name is Ama Karabella, part-time host and producer of the podcast.
Today we kick off a new season and we've partnered with Radio Oe Eins, one of Austria's leading cultural voices to bring you the next six episodes. Over the next months, my colleague and radio journalist, Hannah Balber, will discuss with artists and researchers
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