USURPATOR Pod – Details, episodes & analysis

Maya Man is an artist creating work about Internet culture and identity. She joins me to talk about her recent projects, Fake It Till You Make It, Ugly Bitches, Little Darlings, and (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes.

Read the highlights of our conversation on the site. Find out more about Maya’s work on her website, or follow her on Instagram.

Joey & Jawn from Lifeworld join USURPATOR to talk about their platform River.ph.

We talk about our digital patterns, pushing the boundaries of a social platform, and Frank Ocean’s Tumblr.

Read a shortened version of our conversation on the site, try River, or follow Jawn or Joey on Twitter.

Today, we’re joined by Viola He, a Shanghai-born, Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist, live-coder, educator, and cultural organizer. We talk about their foray into live coding, the meaning of interactive art, and the barrier to entry of learning new technological tools. You can follow Viola on their Instagram, visit their site, or check out LiveCodeNYC. Read the highlights of our conversation on the site.

USURPATOR is joined by Willem Simons, founder of Daze, co-founder of Muze, and one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 for 2022. During our conversation, we discuss creative communication tools, the trajectory of popular social media apps, and building ideas based on gut instinct. As always, you can read the highlights of our talk on the site, or follow Willem on Instagram

Today, we're joined with Kit Volta, a creative technologist and XR artist based in NYC. During our conversation, we discuss self-expression through art, our virtual selves, how they blend the physical and virtual through AR, and the effects of living fragments of our lives online. You can follow Kit on Instagram and Twitter.

You can also read the highlights of our conversation on usurpatormag.com

Last week, USURPATOR joined Norm O’Hagan in Listening Labs. Norm is a creative explorer, musician, artist, co-founder of Teal Process, and co-runner of The Factory, which is where Listening Labs is held. We talk about collaborative spaces, imaginative world-building, and interactive listening experiences. You can follow Norm on Instagram, check out Listening Labs, or Teal Process.

You can read the highlights of our conversation on usurpatormag.com

We are joined by Lilith & Avatar Lilith— one person, different fragments. They are a 3D artist, designer, performance artist, musician, and creative technologist based in Brooklyn. Part one of two, this interview starts off a series where we talk to artists about their practice that involves virtual selves. During our conversation, we discuss Lilith’s performance art, the birth of their avatar, and philosophize the notion of our digital presence—how it represents fragments of our subjectivity, and how it takes on its own agency. You can read a shortened version of our interview on our site, or follow Lilith and Avatar Lilith on Instagram, or visit their website.

Yatú is an Artist-Founder based in NYC, who joined USURPATOR for a conversation about his work. We talk about his projects USB Club and Teal Process, we also discuss virtual and IRL collaboration spaces, the value of physical space, virtual catalog, and our concept of time.

Molly Soda is an internet-based performance artist whose work explores mass media culture, virtual communication patterns, and the concept of “posting self.” During our conversation, we talk about virtual visibility, why people think of their past selves as “cringe,” and the art of publicizing private spaces.

Visit Molly’s website or her Substack, or follow her on Instagram and Twitter.