Loading...

PODCAST

Creating New Spaces: Interviews with artists redefining spaces through technology

Explore the practice of creating media art installations with the Creating New Spaces podcast. In each episode, the host Robin Petterd brings you interviews with artists who are pushing the boundaries of art and technology. The podcast focuses on the intricacies of media installation and art, revealing the creative and technical processes behind the scenes. Perfect for artists, students, educators, and anyone interested in experimental art practice. Listen to hear conversations that illuminate the

arts visual arts

All Episodes

00:36:32

Risk, Creativity, and Collaboration in Public Art...

Creating New Spaces: Interviews with artists... ·

2026/09/26

In this podcast you will learn how early risk planning can help you protect the creative objective, work through uncertainty, and deliver ambitious media art in public spaces.Emily O’Brien provides risk, safety, and crowd management services for cultural organisations, festivals, and arts projects. Before specialising in these areas, she worked for around 20 years as a production manager across arts festivals, contemporary dance, theatre, and unconventional creative projects.In this conversation,

en

00:32:37

Public art, permanence and decay with Nigel Helyer

Creating New Spaces: Interviews with artists... ·

2026/08/08

In this podcast, Nigel Helyer explains how public artworks are designed for specific lifespans, how media installations can be maintained as their technologies age, and why contracts are central to the long-term maintenance of art in public spaces.Nigel Helyer is an internationally acclaimed Australian sculptor and sound artist who creates public artworks, sound sculptures and interactive media installations. His interdisciplinary practice connects art, science and technology through projects

en

00:40:07

How Craig Walsh uses projection to transform trees...

Creating New Spaces: Interviews with artists... ·

2026/07/04

In this interview, Craig Walsh explores the creative process behind Monuments. Monuments is a long-running outdoor projection project that uses projected portraits on trees to create temporary public monuments. The project began at Woodford Folk Festival in 1993, when Craig discovered how a projected portrait could align with the form of a tree and become a sculptural presence in public space.Craig Walsh is an Australian artist known for pioneering approaches to projection, installation, and

en

00:28:19

Using technology as a social instrument with Georgie...

Creating New Spaces: Interviews with artists... ·

2026/05/16

In this podcast you will learn how Georgie Pinn designs interactive media artworks for public space. You’ll hear how Georgie builds participation, accessibility, and emotional impact. This interview is part of our series that focuses on media artworks in public space. In this interview, Georgie Pinn explores the creative process behind Echo, an interactive work that has evolved across multiple public-facing iterations, from an intimate one-on-one booth experience to large-scale outdoor

en

00:30:30

Listening, prototyping and delivering media art in...

Creating New Spaces: Interviews with artists... ·

2026/03/28

In this conversation, we hear how Betty Sargeant develops site-led installations through listening, prototyping, and stakeholder collaboration. We also discuss why delivery skills matter as much as ideas when working in public space. This interview is part of our series that focuses on media artworks in public space.Betty shares the creative process behind The Fauxrest and what it takes to make media art that can survive real-world conditions, including weather, public interpretation, and the

en

00:25:49

Designing public interactions through sound with...

Creating New Spaces: Interviews with artists... ·

2026/02/21

In this podcast you will learn how sound-led public artworks can turn everyday places into shared, playable environments. In this interview Michael Baker is the Sound Director at Daily tous les jours we explore some of the thinking behind Daily Tous Les Jours’ public artworks. Daily tous les jours is known for large-scale participatory works such as Musical Swings, as well as their book Strangers Need Strange Moments Together, which reflects on designing interaction in public space. This interview

en

00:14:31

Staying, Making, Connecting: The 2025 creative playbook

Creating New Spaces: Interviews with artists... ·

2026/01/02

In this podcast you will learn how media artists stay with uncertainty, make deliberate choices with technology, and build work through collaboration—with people, place, ecology, and time.This is a 2025 compilation episode, bringing together the advice I ask for at the end of every conversation on Creating New Spaces. Across the year, artists returned to a few shared concerns: how to keep going when meaning arrives slowly, how to test and refine work without being led by the tools, and how

en

00:25:31

Creating New Space - Knowledge base and playbooks

Creating New Spaces: Interviews with artists... ·

2025/10/25

In this podcast you will learn how artists Alex Moss and Maggie May Jeffries developed a shared creative process that bridges traditional painting and interactive media.In this interview, Alex Moss and Maggie Jeffries discuss the creative process behind The Weather at midnight. The exhibition combines painting, projection, and real-time interaction to create a shifting environment of light and movement. Through subtle digital overlays and live painting, static canvases become dynamic, evolving works

en

00:31:09

Cultivating curiosity in creative coding with Matthew...

Creating New Spaces: Interviews with artists... ·

2025/09/26

In this podcast you will learn why curiosity matters more than technical skill. In this interview, Matthew Ragan explores coding as a practice of sculpting and rehearsal, showing how collaboration with technology leads to more fluid and sustainable creative outcomes.Matthew Ragan is a California-based creative technologist, educator, and co-founder of SudoMagic. He has an MFA in interdisciplinary digital media and performance. His TouchDesigner tutorials are used by creatives worldwide.Listen to

en

00:20:49

Embracing unpredictability and physical process in...

Creating New Spaces: Interviews with artists... ·

2025/07/12

In this podcast, discover how physical prototyping, water systems, and shifting sound and light bring Georgie Friedman’s installations to life.In this interview, Georgie Friedman explores the creative process behind Dissolution, an immersive installation blending spatial sound, projection-mapped video and dripping water to evoke a dark, cave-like stillness. The work was installed at Gallery A2, part of Artisans Asylum, a collaborative makerspace in Boston.Georgie is a Boston-based interdisciplinary

en

00:16:37

Intervals: Creative responses to space with Johan F....

Creating New Spaces: Interviews with artists... ·

2025/06/03

In this podcast, you’ll learn how Johan F. Karlsson uses observation, intuition, and the concept of ma to shape site-specific installations that reveal subtle changes in space and time.In this interview, Johan F. Karlsson talks about the creative process behind Against the day and The space that remains. The installations are part of the exhibition Forever is nothing, developed during Johan’s residency at Space Department, a Japanese residency program that supports architecture and spatial-based art

en

00:16:37

Intervals: Creative responses to space with Johan F....

Creating New Spaces: Interviews with artists... ·

2025/05/31

In this podcast, you’ll learn how Johan F. Karlsson uses observation, intuition, and the concept of ma to shape site-specific installations that reveal subtle changes in space and time.In this interview, Johan F. Karlsson explores the creative process behind Against the Day. Against the Day is a dual-channel video installation that surrounds audiences with a streak of sunlight and its recorded echo, revealing how time and perception unfold through subtle spatial shifts. The installation is part of

en

00:28:58

Keith Armstrong on collaborating with forests

Creating New Spaces: Interviews with artists... ·

2025/05/03

What does it mean to make art for a forest—not just about it? Keith Armstrong explores this question through his long-term project Forest Art Intelligence, which blends ecological recovery with creative experimentation.Forest Art Intelligence is a project that regenerates a cleared block of land into a native forest. Developed in partnership with the Samford Ecological Research Facility (SERF) and the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), the project will be supported in 2024 through an

en

00:26:22

The evolution of Lacunae with Soma Lumia

Creating New Spaces: Interviews with artists... ·

2025/03/28

In this podcast, you will learn how Lacunae, an interactive installation by Tasmanian artist collective Soma Lumia, has evolved through multiple iterations. Lacunae is an interactive installation that enables people to dance with others in different locations through projected silhouettes and sound.In this conversation, Darryl Rogers and Troy Merritt from Soma Lumia share the journey of Lacunae. The project was born during COVID-19 to rethink how technology shapes human connection. It was originally

en

00:30:51

Media art for public spaces with Ariana Gerstein and...

Creating New Spaces: Interviews with artists... ·

2025/02/21

What happens when an artwork is shaped by the unpredictability of public space? In this interview Ariana Gerstein and Monteith McCollum discuss What We Bring, an outdoor installation that extends Ariana’s larger documentary project exploring migration, personal history, and overlooked traces of the past. While filming in Athens, Greece, she was drawn to a clothesline hanging in an old neighborhood—a simple yet powerful marker of everyday life. The street, surrounded by century-old markets and

en

00:18:16

Breaking barriers to creative coding through analog...

Creating New Spaces: Interviews with artists... ·

2025/01/25

In this podcast, you will learn how Rita Eperjesi is rethinking the way creative coding is taught with her project, DECODE: A Friendly Introduction to Creative Coding through Analog Techniques. Rita Eperjesi is a Berlin-based Hungarian artist and creative technologist dedicated to merging art and technology through innovative projects, international exhibitions, and educational initiatives. During the conversation, Rita Eperjesi shares her innovative approach to creative coding, emphasising the use

en

00:18:24

Creating reflective spaces and secular rituals with...

Creating New Spaces: Interviews with artists... ·

2025/01/03

In his interview, learn how to create immersive atmospheres that evoke self-reflection and emotional engagement in audiences.This conversation features Matt Warren, an artist, musician, and educator based in Nipaluna/Hobart, whose work has been exhibited internationally in Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the USA, and across Australia. Matt shares insights into the creative and conceptual processes behind Secular Ritual (selfie), his recent installation at Sawtooth Gallery in Launceston. Drawing from

en

00:19:51

Fluid visions: Exploring lava, femininity, and form...

Creating New Spaces: Interviews with artists... ·

2024/12/07

In this interview, new media artist Yizhen Li shares the creative process behind Lava’s Lament, an immersive installation exhibited at Gray Area in San Francisco in early 2024 as part of Gray Area’s Cultural Incubator. Yizhen’s work blends soft materials, light, and projections to create a space that explores themes of femininity, memory, and the natural cycles that connect us to the environment.Originally from Sichuan, China, Yizhen draws from traditional cultural elements and combines them with

en

00:31:04

Art and science collaboration: Transforming...

Creating New Spaces: Interviews with artists... ·

2024/11/09

In this interview, artist Nigel Helyer shares the creative and technical processes behind BioSphere | DataSphere, a series of works based on environmental data from the Tasman Fracture Marine Park. The project is a collaborative research effort involving the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, the Australian Antarctic Division, and CSIRO. Based in Australia, Nigel is an internationally renowned sculptor and sound artist known for creating large-scale sound sculptures, environmental public

en

00:27:59

Exploring visual harmonies through liquid screens...

Creating New Spaces: Interviews with artists... ·

2024/10/12

In this interview, artist Bego M. Santiago discusses the creative process behind her series Cosmos: All That is Ordered. Cosmos: All That is Ordered is a series of installations that blends sacred geometry, science, and spirituality, creating hypnotic and introspective experiences. Listen to this podcast to learn about: The conceptual development of Cosmos: All That is Ordered and its use of sacred geometry to blend science with spirituality. The influence of Pythagorean cosmology in Bego's

en

36 results

Similar Podcasts

All Of It with Alison Stewart

WNYC

Wild West Tales - Old Time Radio Westerns

theaterofthemind-otr.com

Podcast Patapoe

0d0a

I Don"t Need an Acting Class

Milton Justice

The Magic Podcast

The Magic Podcast