Variance
Variance
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Discover how bold ideas are born. In each episode, we sit down with trailblazers in science, tech, art, and design to uncover the variant mindsets and views that spark breakthroughs. Tune in for insights into what it takes to upend convention—and create something truly new.
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Focuses on groundbreaking ideas and unconventional solutions across various fields, with episodes addressing topics such as sustainable architecture in the context of climate change featuring Dan Spiegel discussing housing crises and electric car infrastructure, and the implications of creative thinking on design and art.

Discover how bold ideas are born. In each episode, we sit down with trailblazers in science, tech, art, and design to uncover the variant mindsets and views that spark breakthroughs. Tune in for insights into what it takes to upend convention—and create something truly new.
How valuable are inanimate material objects, and can we have relationships with them – from computers to art? Why do we have dogs in our lives, which our laws treat as objects, when dogs have no say in the “relationship”? Will our new synthetic beings, our AI and robotic mind children, be more like our pets, or will we be their pets?
Join Miguel Novelo, an artist, researcher, and community organizer currently working on algorithmic movies on geological change, game engine storytelling based on dogs-human-technology afterlife, technoshamanisms, technology displacement, and technophobias. He is currently an independent artist and Lecturer at Stanford’s Art and Art History Department and San Jose State University.
Show Notes: Miguel’s Personal WebsiteInteractive Installation: “Chupaflor: Whistling; Dog Spirit, Aqui” (2023)Sonic Sculpture: Judgment Pelicano: Impact (2022)Experimental Films: Super 8 and 16mm (2020s?)

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