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Future Artefacts FM

Future Artefacts FM

Future Artefacts FM is a bi-monthly talk show hosted by Nina Davies, Niamh Schmidtke and Rebecca Edwards, featuring speculative fiction audio works such as radio plays, short stories, fictional interviews and podcasts. Follow our instagram @futureartefacts.fm for more news, updates and details about the show. Thanks for listening, Nina, Niamh and Rebecca

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All Episodes

01:00:01

CHANTER (Aughinish)

Future Artefacts FM ·

2025/10/22

Can choirs be a form of protest, and what kinds of resistance could they provide in the midst of climate crises?Our mini-series, ‘as a chorus’ begins with Niamh Schmidtke’s work, CHANTER (Aughinish). Their 15 minute audio introduces us to an aluminium refinery and it’s impact on the local population. Combining song and audio description, the work brings together its own chorus, inviting us to join their melodies, building from the individual to the collective as our awareness of their injustice

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01:00:00

Black Holes Act 1: Part 2

Future Artefacts FM ·

2025/08/25

For episode 29, we listen to the second half of Black Holes Act 1. This 40-minute radio play by Suley, which holds a mirror up to the UK after last year’s race riots. A re-imagining of Derrick Bell’s 1992 novella ‘Space Traders’, Black Holes is a satirical work of speculative fiction in which aliens offer the UK vast riches in exchange for its Black citizens and a referendum is called on the trade. An Afrofuturistic exploration of critical race theory, this two-part episode asks if progress for

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00:59:58

Black Holes Act 1: Part 1

Future Artefacts FM ·

2025/07/07

Black Holes Act 1 is a 40-minute radio play by Suley, which holds a mirror up to the UK after last year’s race riots. A re-imagining of Derrick Bell’s 1992 novella ‘Space Traders’, Black Holes is a satirical work of speculative fiction in which aliens offer the UK vast riches in exchange for its Black citizens and a referendum is called on the trade. An Afrofuturistic exploration of critical race theory, this two-part episode asks if progress for racial justice happens only when it aligns with the

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00:59:57

The Next New Weird

Future Artefacts FM ·

2025/05/05

What is the next New Weird? How might ‘weirding’ help generate collective virtual or physical spaces to resist cultural binaries, and do these amorphic, slippery forms of language provide tools to resist totalising phrases of good and evil? For this episode, we recap the 4 artist works featured on our New Weird mini-series, revisiting questions of how the tools of this literary genre might provide emancipatory places to build new worlds from. Revisiting Philip Speakman’s use of weirding, Jelena

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00:59:59

Concerning Geographies: Entangled Histories

Future Artefacts FM ·

2025/03/11

Future Artefacts FM host artist Monya Riachi, as part of their New Weird Mini-series. Her work, Concerning Geographies: Entangled Histories, a speculative letter, addresses cartography across the Levante and the UK. Heard here as part of a live performance debuted alongside research unfolding the processes of map making, and their relationships to borders and power as imperial constructions.Monya Riachi is an interdisciplinary artist. Her practice is material driven and research-led, and is explored

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00:59:51

Motonation

Future Artefacts FM ·

2025/01/13

Part three of our New Weird mini series features Jelena Viskovic’s Motonation. This 9 minute extract shows us two societies, Happy Nation & The Grid, where we follow Čedo as he decides which group to join. This surrealist sci-fi examines the consequences of individual vs collective desires, referencing Yugoslav performance art from the 1980s, and tools of humour and weirding during Čedo’s journey.Sound Composition and Design: Tamás MarquetantChedo: Chad (Čedo) SpenceHer Sanctuary: Marija Iva

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00:58:56

Impotent Island

Future Artefacts FM ·

2024/11/18

For the second part of our New Weird mini series Chris MacInnes shares Impotent Island, an installation that’s been adapted for audio broadcast. In the 11 minute audio we listen to MacInnes’ narration collapse time, connecting cosmology at a planetary scale to Sheffield’s historical industrialisation through the extraction of coal, the heat of steam and their impact within the Anthropocene. Together we discuss what role weird has here, reflecting on the changing labour patterns from the industrial

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01:00:10

Reality Break

Future Artefacts FM ·

2024/09/23

Our latest mini-series on the New Weird begins with the premier of Philip Speakman’s, Reality Break, a 15 minute audio work, which follows the recollections of 4 facebook employee’s Dungeons & Dragons game in the summer of 2020. Set before Facebook’s Metaverse was released to the public, Reality Break explores the social conscience of these worldbuilding employees. Timed to distract from Frances Haugen’s whistleblowing, which revealed how Facebook’s understood the harm their algorithmic choices

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00:59:59

Pulling Blood from a Stone Pt.2

Future Artefacts FM ·

2024/08/05

Is it possible to decolonise mineral collections? How might our understanding of mineralogy support climate activism or anti-racist methodologies? For the second part of our double bill with co-founder Niamh Schmidtke, we are listening to the final half of Pulling Blood from a Stone, a 35 minute radio play. Alberto Duman joins us as co-presenter, addressing key questions in act 3 and 4 about how minerals might hold kinship with specific places or peoples affected colonisation. Diving into Tsumeb,

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00:59:56

Pulling Blood from a Stone: Part 1

Future Artefacts FM ·

2024/06/03

If we could communicate with the minerals around us, what voices would we hear? What would they speak about? And what relationships would rocks and minerals have with one another? For this special double bill, co-founder Niamh Schmidtke is sharing their recent audio play, Pulling Blood from a Stone, across two episodes. We have invited guest Alberto Duman to co-present the first half of this 35 minute work. Act 1 and 2 follow pre-history, set 2 billion years ago, and in 500BC, where we are

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00:59:58

SubScanners

Future Artefacts FM ·

2024/04/08

Recent EU law now allows citizens to complain if they have been harmed by AI, but what if they have co-conceived your offspring without you even knowing it?For Future Artefacts 20th Episode we’re welcoming back Nina Davies with her new work SubScanners, alongside guest co-host Rebecca Edwards. This is the fourth work in a series of fictional traditional dances which loosely follow the structures of western folk dance; agricultural, spiritual, war and courtship. Set within a 15 minute fictional

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01:00:05

The End of the World; FA X The Couch

Future Artefacts FM ·

2024/02/12

What would you do at the end of the world? For the third part of our collaboration with *The Couch, we are thrilled to share David Blandy’s work, The End of The World, a 13 minute audio piece, originating from a larger video installation made in 2017. Revisiting this work, we explore the ends of multiple worlds; family illness, the foundations of a political system shattering and the end of a 17 year old magical gaming world, Asheron’s Call. When reflected in the present moment, we hear from Blandy

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01:00:01

A Bell is Tolling; FA X The Couch

Future Artefacts FM ·

2023/12/18

During this festive season, we invite you to celebrate with the epic adventure mix, A Bell is Tolling, by Jan Berger. This 12 minute mix, composed of RPG* soundtracks, including selections from fantasy epics in late 90s and early 2000s, is the second work featured as part of our collaboration with the Couch**. Together we discuss what magic looks like in game worlds and the limitations of magical tropes and expectations, such as their preference for mediaeval villages, steampunk gadgetry or

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01:00:32

EsƨƎ-1; Future Artefacts FM X The Couch

Future Artefacts FM ·

2023/10/23

How can rituals guide, mislead or comfort us? For the second episode of our collaboration with The Couch*, Bea Xu’s piece EsƨƎ-1 invites us to follow the leader of an anthrax death cult. Made in collaboration with Markéta Skalková and formed by Xu’s research into melting permafrost, their work imagines a post-anthropocentric future where anthrax spores have become objects of fascination and obsession, containing magical properties, transforming skeletons into talismans and forests into autonomous

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01:13:26

Future Artefacts X The Couch; Magic and Technology

Future Artefacts FM ·

2023/09/24

For this episode we are bringing together three special guests to introduce our new collaboration with Het HEM. We’ve brought back artists Rebeca Romero (Ep.3) and Akinsola Lawanson (Ep.7) together with curator Maia Kenney to discuss magic and technology within their works and research. Romero’s exploration of trance in The New Worshipers and Lawanson’s spirit world in Bosode each examine the intersections of these themes, how they influence each other, and how might magic in the present influence

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01:00:00

Infinite Customisation

Future Artefacts FM ·

2023/07/03

Please join us for this special episode of Future Artefacts FM with Joe Moss’ audio piece Infinite Customisation. In this 17 minute audio-book style work, we meet the ghost of J. Thaddeus Toad, transported from the 1908 novel, The Wind in the Willows, and risen in the future. Following Toad’s perceptions, the work draws contrasts between the linear perspective of industrial England in the 1910s to a far different reality of revolving subcultures, nostalgia and technological beings. With Joe, we

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00:59:56

Learned Friends; Piasecki vs Wade

Future Artefacts FM ·

2023/05/08

Nina Davies shares her work ‘Learned Friends; Piasecki vs Wade’ for episode 14 of the show. It is a fictional podcast voiced by characters Riley and Devon, who discuss legal cases that present the rising issues of using predictive technology within the justice system. Set in a world where technology documents the future just as well as in documents the past, people have begun to move in pre-programmed ways as a matter of safety, to be better detected by self-driving cars or correctly prescribed

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01:02:00

The diamond's less sexy sister

Future Artefacts FM ·

2023/03/14

In this episode we welcome our first guest presenter, Ariane Koek, to discuss Niamh Schmidtke’s work-in-progress, The diamond’s less sexy sister. Somewhere between a radio essay and a voicenote, the 5 minute piece explores human relations to minerals, specifically with graphite. Combining scripted and organic conversation, prose and academic information, the audio slips in and out of speculation; is that a mineral speaking, or a person speaking about a mineral? Together we untangle Niamh’s current

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00:59:33

Before The Now

Future Artefacts FM ·

2023/01/17

For this special episode we are thrilled to share Sienna Rackall’s 11 minute audio, Before the Now. Sienna’s work was developed with us over the past 4 months after being selected from worldbuilding workshops for young people (13-18) led by Future Artefacts through HVH arts in August 2022. Sienna’s work centres on the distant planet, Minerva’s, spoilt queen, Audrea, who doesn’t understand why her people are angered by her decadent lifestyle. With Sienna, we discuss secret languages, the line between

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01:00:42

Bioturbation; Or, The Humiliation of HuMan by WRMS

Future Artefacts FM ·

2022/11/23

Bioturbation; Or, The Humiliation of HuMan by WRMSIn this episode we welcome Jon K Shaw to discuss his work Bioturbation; Or, The Humiliation of Human by WRMS, a 13 minute sound work. Digging through layers of jazz, poetry, news reports and Jon’s own voice, worms are the central character, an essential creature in the process of making soil, and sustaining life on earth. Together we explore how to become more worm-like, both as a necessary force in ecology, and as a metaphor for how we, as humans,

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