ART is not a Thing

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Ars Electronica Festival Podcast

Art Is Not a Thing is a podcast series about art as a practice of critical inquiry, knowledge production and world-building. From media art, bio-art, sound art to digital activism, speculative design, or data storytelling, the series delves into artistic work that reflects on, questions, and reimagines our practices in and of the world. 

The series is developed partly in collaboration with Radio Ö1.

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Episodes

  • Outsourcing Ethics: A Robot Speaks Our Violence

    In the podcast episode, Hannah talks to artists Thomas Kvam and Frode Oldereid about their installation Requiem for an Exit – a piece featuring a towering robot delivering a haunting monologue about the darker side of humanity. The piece confronts audiences with the enduring legacy of human violence and the ethical responsibilities humans outsource to bureaucratic and technological structures.


  • Web of AI: Linking Homes and Battlefields

    In today’s episode, we talk to Sarah Ciston about their award-winning project, AI War Cloud Database. The project visualises the links between everyday life technologies and military infrastructure, and reflects on the increasing automation of war.


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Host: Hannah Balber | Producers: Ana-Maria Carabelea / Christopher Sonnleitner / Marlene Grinner | Editing: Hannah Balber / Ana-Maria Carabelea | Music: Karl Julian Schmidinger | Design: Jelena Mönch

The series is developed partly in collaboration with Radio Ö1.