Art Smitten – Details, episodes & analysis

Maya Borjesson @handclap joined us in the studio 🔊 for this episode of Art Smitten.
Based in Naarm/Melbourne, Maya is a sound artist and architect who explores ambient music’s potential in evoking memories as well as sound’s relationship to architecture.

We also briefly discuss the history of sound as an artform to contextualize our discussion around sound as an artistic medium!

Art Smitten airs Monday 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm 📻 @synmedia

Work by Maya Borjesson included in this podcast includes 'A Thread Beneath Our Skin' which was exhibited at No Vacancy Gallery as part of the show 'Stillness in Motion".

Image credit: Joshua Maxwell de Hoog @jesterempath

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For our first episode of season 3, we are kicking things off with a discussion about the rise of AI in art 📟 Afrina asked local art students for their opinion on the use of AI and the team shared their own perception of the ever-changing tool and its place in creativity.
Astra shares his review of the film ‘The Man Who Sleeps’ (1974) directed by Bernand Queysanne to wrap up this episode. The film is an adaptation of French novelist Georges Perec’s 1967 novella titled A Man Asleep and is perhaps the perfect film to bet the winter blues. 

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This episode we are joined by Melanie Oliver (Senior Curator) to discuss the current exhibition at MUMA - Image Economies📽️

🤳🏼 Image Economies traces how artists have used digital technologies over recent history, from exploring reproducibility and authenticity to the contemporary applications of AI and machine learning. Through a variety of mediums, the exhibiting artists explore themes of materiality, identity, cultural knowledge and the social impact of images.
https://www.monash.edu/muma/exhibitions 

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SYN Media acknowledges and pays respect to the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands the SYN office and studios stand. 

SYN and the Art Smitten team would like to further acknowledge the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the Lands and Waters across Australia where our content reaches. 

Art Smitten would like to expand that respect to Bunjil, the great creator ancestor of the Kulin nations. Sovereignty has never been ceded. It always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.

Image credit: Juliet Carpenter and Róisín Berg, The Sun Is Not To Be Believed, 2022–23. Installation view, Image Economies, Monash University Museum of Art, Naarm/Melbourne, 2025. Courtesy of the artists. Photo: Christian Capurro.

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In this episode of Art Smitten Bites, Imogen & Tyler spoke with an ensemble member of the all-female percussion group Drummer Queens about their new show at the Melbourne Comedy Theatre! 

We spoke about how the drums are an empowering instrument, rehearsing during COVID and how the idea for the show came about. 

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Interview with the founder of the Melbourne circus group Dummies Corp on their Melbourne International Comedy Festival show, Dumdectives in Cirque Noir and their journey into becoming a circus performer. 

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Join Viv & Sim as they interview Joanne Samuel, the Director of 'The Legend of Five'.

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Viv & Sim interview Lauren Esposito, the lead actress of 'The Legend of Five', to talk about the film & her journey.

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Another one bites the dust as Ben and Tom rejoice and rejoin back on Art Smitten Wednesdays.

They talk about the virtual world of art, where are people getting their inspiration from, talk to Tom Parry on the telephone about the Raspberry Film Awards and have an interview with Jeremy Leopando about his new single, Ice Cream. 

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Ben and Tom cover all things Supanova Comic Con, as well as chatting about all the latest in comedy, progressive art and sculptures.

We take a look at what's in the box, listen to a spooky preview of Dracula's Guests and have two interviews with Chloe Towan from Scary Goats Tour and a live in studio performance with Michael Dunstan.

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In this week's action-packed episode of Art Smitten, contributor Emily gives her thoughts and insights of the recent NGV Japanese Modernism Exhibition, Dem enters an art competition and everybody tries to guess what's in Tom's box.

You can find the episode from All The Best broadcast at http://allthebestradio.com/

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