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Mar 31, 2025 • 18min

Preview | NM Talkcore: writer Biz Sherbert on American Style (2025)

This is a preview — for the full episode, subscribe | https://newmodels.io https://patreon.com/newmodels https://newmodels.substack.com - Writer and Nymphet Alumni co-host Biz Sherbert joins NM following the launch of her newsletter, American Style. Its premise is simple — travel around the country and talk to people about what they are wearing and why. On the show, we chat with Biz about the transmission of style today, particularly in the USA, and whether personal aesthetic transformations may be a stand-in for pursuing the erstwhile American Dream. For more: https://instagram.com/bizsherbert https://bizsherbert.substack.com/about Nymphet Alumni Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/65CYBeAlLNevYAdW0YgyD1 See also: “What Does Beauty Look Like in the Age of Trump?” AnOther (Feb 2025) https://www.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/16218/what-does-beauty-look-like-in-the-trump-era-anna-claire-howland-addison-rae “On the Fashion Philosophy of the Crypto Bro,” Zora (June 2023) https://zine.zora.co/biz-sherbert-crypto-style Biz Sherbert x Emma Chamberlain, The Face (Sept 2024) https://theface.com/culture/emma-chamberlain-style-voice-of-a-generation-young-people-social-media-famous Nicole Kidman shot by Petra Collins for Time Woman of the Year, 2025 https://time.com/7216403/nicole-kidman-interview/
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Mar 4, 2025 • 12min

Unlocked | NM x Heavy Traffic: Mark Leckey, “Enter Through Medieval Wounds” radio play

First published in Heavy Traffic V (Fall 2024), Mark Leckey's kaleidoscopic, transhistorical sojourn into the Eikonomachia (the 'image struggle') is presented here in radio play form w/ sound design and production also by Leckey. This reading is part of Heavy Traffic’s New Models residency, which features pieces from the magazine read aloud by their authors. Heavy Traffic V of is out now. https://heavytrafficmagazine.com See also:  📹 "Enter Through Medieval Wounds" video version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyi-ZRJj7mI 🔉NM Greenroom | Mark Leckey (2025) https://soundcloud.com/newmodels/preview-nm-greenroom-mark-leckey-2025? 🔉NM75 | w/ Heavy Traffic editor/publisher Patrick McGraw https://soundcloud.com/newmodels/mcgraw-heavytraffic-nm75/s-VB0sQZYweL0 🖼️ 3 Songs from the Liver,” Gladstone Gallery, NYC (2024-25) https://www.gladstonegallery.com/exhibition/13694/3-songs-from-the-liver/installation-views
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Mar 2, 2025 • 1h 15min

Unlocked | K Allado-McDowell on Neural Media (NM76) 2024

K Allado-McDowell is a writer, speaker, musician, and the mind behind books like "Pharmako-AI," as well as the founder of Google's Artists + Machine Intelligence. In this discussion, K explores the evolution of media in the age of AI, focusing on the rise of 'neural media' and its impact on individuality. They dive into ethical considerations in animal communication, and the philosophical implications of AI's role in creativity and truth, proposing new frameworks for understanding our relationship with technology. A thought-provoking conversation!
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Feb 28, 2025 • 26min

Preview | NM Greenroom: Mark Leckey (2025)

This is a preview — for the full episode, subscribe. | https://newmodels.io https://patreon.com/newmodels https://newmodels.substack.com _ British artist Mark Leckey — creator of famed club culture docu-hallucination, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999), winner of the 2008 Turner Prize, and longtime NTS Radio host — discusses the terms of art-making in our technological present and our increasingly medieval relationship to representation. His show “3 Songs from the Liver” was on view at Gladstone Gallery, NY, Nov 2024 - Feb 2025. “AI outputs are not “images” as we know them. And if we try to understand them in that way, then we’re really…. f*cked, you know?” Following this conversation, keep listening for “Enter Through Medieval Wounds” a radio play by Mark Leckey, which first appeared in essay form in Heavy Traffic V (Fall 2024). For more: https://markleckey.com https://www.nts.live/shows/mark-leckey https://www.gladstonegallery.com/exhibition/13694/3-songs-from-the-liver/installation-views Episode image adapted from Mark Leckey, "Carry Me into The Wilderness" (Icon), 2022
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Feb 13, 2025 • 16min

Preview | NM Greenroom: Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet, Pt. 2 (2025)

This is a preview | Full episode released to subscribers: 13 Feb 2025 | Subscribe --> https://newmodels.io Part 2 of this NM Greenroom features Amnesia Scanner's Ville Haimala & French artist Freeka Tet discussing the work they do in parallel to their AS collaboration. For Ville, this includes developing scores and sound design with Anne Imhof for her monumental performance-installations; while Freeka discusses his recent music video for The Weeknd. In Part 1 (released 9 Feb 2025) AS's Ville Haimala & Martti Kalliala, together with regular collaborator Freeka Tet speak about their most recent release, AS HOAX (PAN, 2024) and the project's innovations within the post-streaming subcultural industrial complex. For more: 
@amensiascanner @freekatet @villehaimala (IG) https://p-a-n.org/product/amnesia-scanner-freeka-tet-hoax-pan-148/
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Feb 9, 2025 • 26min

Preview | NM Greenroom: Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet, Pt. 1 (2025)

This is a preview | Full episode released to subscribers: 9 Feb 2025 | Subscribe --> https://newmodels.io _ Ville Haimala & Martti Kalliala of the experimental music duo @amnesia-scanner & regular collaborator Freeka Tet join NM to discuss AS HOAX (@pan_hq 2024) — both the making-of and the world into which the dual record project was released.  This is Part 1 of 2. It focuses on the Amnesia + Freeka project and its innovations within the post-streaming subcultural industrial complex. Part 2 (coming soon) expands to Ville & Freeka’s activity outside of Amnesia Scanner, including recent work with artists Anne Imhof and The Weeknd. Recorded at the end of 2024, the conversation presciently channels the noise, distortion, and attentional overload that has quickly come to characterize the info-sphere of 2025. For more: HOAX (PAN, 2024) https://p-a-n.org/product/amnesia-scanner-freeka-tet-hoax-pan-148/ Related:
 Joshua Citarella, Doomscroll: Trevor Paglen: Mind Hacking, AI and Psyops Capitalism,” 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--0kYOwOoDQ Joshua Citarella, Doomscroll: Matty Healy: Pop Culture in the 21st Century, 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdCdpnz0wDU&t=1732s
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Feb 1, 2025 • 30min

Preview | James Pogue & Ellie Holbrook on Turbo America (NM87)

This is a preview | Full episode released to subscribers: 29 Jan 2024 | Subscribe --> https://newmodels.io // One week after the 2025 US presidential inauguration and less than a month since fires devastated LA, American journalist James Pogue and energy specialist Ellie Holbrook talk us through the current political terrain. James has been covering the New Right since the early 2010s. His back-to-back features this month on the Republican party’s uneasy Tech/MAGA alliance (NYTimes) and the demise of the Dems (Vanity Fair) are, together, an essential primer for how power works today. With literal power (fuel) being part of this equation, Ellie shares her knowledge on the energy trade and LNG markets in particular. What follows in an orientation for our strange new real. See also: 
@hellholbrook (IG)
@jhenseonpogue (x) Forthcoming: James Pogue, The Natural Division (Pantheon) is “a first-person journey deep into a region at the epicenter of both America’s megafires and militia politics, told through California’s far-flung northern State of Jefferson.” NM82: James Pogue on American Futures (2024)
https://soundcloud.com/newmodels/prvw-nm82-james-pogue-on-american-futures NM54: Damn Nation w/ James Pogue (2022) https://soundcloud.com/newmodels/damn-nation-james-pogue-nm54
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Jan 31, 2025 • 28min

Preview | Jay Springett on 'worlds' as medium (NM85)

This is a preview | Full episode released to subscribers: 27 Oct 2024 | Subscribe --> https://newmodels.io Jay Springett is a writer, researcher, consultant, musician, podcaster, Royal Society of Arts Fellow, New Centre instructor, and decade long admin of solarpunks.net. Currently at work on a book exploring the history of Dungeons & Dragons (the so-called metaverse), Jay joins New Models to speak about the proliferation of “worlds” (perhaps in lieu of the 20th century public sphere) and strategies for existing within them. For more: thejaymo.net Jay’s podcasts: https://thejaymo.net/permanentlymoved/ & https://experience.computer/
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Jan 14, 2025 • 1h 2min

NM Live | Busta x Ritger on Loretta Fahrenholz @ Amant, NYC 2025

Jack Ritger, artist and writer with a focus on video production, and Tobi Maier, Chief curator at Amant, delve into the themes of Loretta Fahrenholz’s exhibition. They explore the evolving dynamics of art in the digital age, discussing how AI influences creativity and challenges traditional notions of authenticity. The conversation shifts to the emotional impacts of imagery and the complexities of identity in today's digital landscape. Audience interactions bring additional perspectives, enriching the dialogue around value and art in a world of infinite content.
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Jan 1, 2025 • 30min

NM Reads: Caroline Busta, "Hallucinating Sense in the Era of Infinity Content" (Document, 2024)

Full episode released to subscribers: 20 Jun 2024 | Subscribe --> https://newmodels.io _ Hallucinating Sense in the Era of Infinity Content Written & read by Caroline Busta Document Journal SS24 https://www.documentjournal.com/2024/05/technical-images-film01-angelicism-art-showtime-true-detective-shein/ What if, in a time of infinity content, a meta-reading of the shape and feel of content has become a survival skill? What if we thought about generative AI more as an expression of an epochal shift in human communication than a root cause? More than transmitting specific information, “content”—whether a mukbang video or this 3600 word essay—is now foremost a conductor of “vibes.” "Hallucinating Sense in the Era of Infinity Content" was written in early 2024 by Caroline Busta for Document Journal SS 2024. Editors: Drew Zeiba & Camille Sojit Pechat  Audio production: Lil Internet In the training data: Vilém Flusser, Kevin Munger, K Allado McDowell, Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, Jon Rafman, Dean Kissick, Theo Anthony, Lola Jusidman, Film01, Bernard Stiegler, Olivia Kan-Sperling, Chris Blohm, Niklas Bildstein Zaar, Andreas Grill, Anna Uddenberg, Simon Denny, Trevor Paglen, Joshua Citarella, Jak Ritger, Hari Kunzru, Loretta Fahrenholz, Dorian Electra, Michael Franz, Kolja Reichart, Shein, Lil Internet & the NM Discord. <3 Image: Shein "Chicago 1893" shirt procured and worn by Jan Kostanjevec of GIA (General Intelligence Agency), Ljubljana.

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