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by Juergen Berkessel
Curious about how technology and art collide, spark, and sometimes totally confuse each other? The Intersect of Tech and Art is your backstage pass to the wild, weird, and wonderful world where digital innovation meets creative expression. Created by Juergen Berkessel—a lifelong artist, technologist, and enthusiast for all things experimental—this podcast is for anyone who loves art, design, tech, or just a good story about the creative process. Whether you’re a digital artist, designer, tech enthusiast, or simply fascinated by how artificial intelligence, digital tools, and new technologies are shaking up the arts, you’ll find real-world insights and plenty of inspiration here. Each week, The Intersect dives into everything from digital art and AI in art to creative technology, design trends, and the latest breakthroughs in art technology. Expect lively features about artists and innovators, hands-on explorations of AI creativity, algorithmic art, and musings on how blockchain, augmented reality, and digital culture are transforming the art community. Episodes are packed with honest conversations, practical examples, and a healthy dose of friendly curiosity—plus a few laughs along the way. What sets The Intersect apart? It’s guided by Juergen’s unique perspective as someone who’s been both a practicing artist and a digital strategist since the days when floppy disks were still cool. The show was born out of the same curiosity and tension that drives the art-tech world: how do we balance human creativity with the possibilities (and pitfalls) of technology? That’s what keeps our community of artists, technologists, and innovators coming back. Episodes run 20–30 minutes and make for a perfect listen during your coffee break, commute, or creative session. You’ll hear a mix of in-depth interviews, solo commentary, and the occasional panel-style discussion—always with a light, friendly tone that makes even the most complex tech trends feel accessible. A little transparency: this podcast is produced with the help of AI voice technology and synthetic voice tools. Why? Because frankly, the only way to bring this carefully researched, lovingly curated content from the newsletter to your ears each week is by experimenting with the very tools we talk about. Every episode is crafted, written, and reviewed by Juergen and a human team—AI is just our sidekick, not the boss. We see this as part of the ongoing conversation (and sometimes the tension) at the heart of art and tech today.
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- 1 weeks ago17 min
What the Camera Lost When It Stopped Needing You
The companion podcast to Issue No.91 of The Intersect, and this one breaks the usual format: instead of two hosts talking shop, the curator sits for an interview and answers in his own voice. The question running underneath the whole conversation: when a camera can do nearly anything, what is still worth deciding by hand? Juergen takes it from the shoebox forward.Contents00:07 Building a Pinhole Camera01:11 This Week in Photography03:18 Ansel Adams, Recolored05:24 The Case for Waiting09:23 Platinum Prints, One Sheet at a Time11:45 Tomorrow’s Cameras, Today’s Misses14:19 Hands-On with Lensbaby Prisms16:40 What to Do by Hand17:16 The Intersect, Issue 91In this episodeBuilding a pinhole camera A shoebox, a brass shim, and a row of map pins standing in for a viewfinder. Juergen opens with the camera he built in school, and why the setup still shapes how he sees.Ansel Adams, recolored Someone ran a signature black-and-white photograph through an AI and put the result up for sale. Why Juergen committed to calling it the worst idea in the history of ideas, and why he thinks the tool is not the villain.The case for waiting An app that hides your own pictures for a full day to recreate the disposable-camera ritual. Juergen pushes back hard on what he thinks actually taught him to compose, and it was not the suspense.Platinum prints, one sheet at a time A man in Cleveland still hauling a 15-pound antique camera and mixing his own 19th-century chemistry. What a platinum print does that a screen simply cannot fake.Tomorrow's cameras, today's misses A confident 1990 BBC clip betting on the cameras of the future. They got the direction right and the details gloriously wrong, and the real future turned out stranger than anyone drew on the whiteboard.Hands-on with Lensbaby prisms A box of glass that does nothing until your hand gets involved, in a year when you can type the same look into a slider. Juergen circles the word that keeps nagging him: decides.What to do by hand The one job no camera has ever done for you, and the single thing in the whole issue Juergen says he would fight for.Stay in the loopIf this one landed, follow along and help keep The Intersect going.Website: theintersect.artInstagram: @theintersectnewsThreads: @jberkesselBlueSky: @polymash.bsky.socialSubstack: The Intersect on SubstackLinkedIn: Juergen Berkessel
- 2 weeks ago16 min
Who Gets to Say What Something Is?
The companion podcast to Issue No.90 of The Intersect, and this one breaks the usual pattern: instead of two hosts talking it over, the curator himself sits down to be interviewed about the issue he built by hand. The question underneath it all: when our first reflex shifted from is this good? to is this real?, what did we quietly lose? Juergen answers in his own voice.Contents00:03 What Defines What We See01:05 The Chicken and the Doubt03:04 Accused of Making AI Art05:00 When a Sketch Gets Rewritten07:47 Can AI Clarify Scientific Images?10:00 The Novel Under Suspicion12:17 Proving a Camera Saw It13:38 Learning to Trust Our EyesIn this episodeThe chicken that might not be real A half-mile flight off a platform, a turn in midair, and a suspicion that settled before any question of wonder could. Juergen explains why he never checked, and why that bothers him.Accused of a tool he never touched An architect's first museum solo, years in the making, met a stranger on Reddit and a two-word verdict. What happens when a tool's reputation arrives before the work does.A sketch sent back with angrier faces A court artist drew neutral faces for nineteen years. Then someone ran her work through AI and flipped its meaning. The old crime, Juergen argues, at a new speed.The prize that won and then lost A gorgeous microscope video of cilia took first place, then forfeited it. The harder question lives in the source data: where does making an image legible become making it up?The novel pulled over the shape of its sentences Flagged by sleuths, denied by its author, and gone. Juergen ran his own writing through a detector and learned something about the dogma forming around the tools.Proving a camera actually saw it Two rival standards chasing the same problem, with Apple quietly building its own. Whether either works, and whether fake images are the crisis we claim, stays open.Stay in the loopIf this one made you want the full issue, that is where it lives. Follow along and support the work.Website: theintersect.artInstagram: @theintersectnewsThreads: @jberkesselBlueSky: @polymash.bsky.socialSubstack: The Intersect on SubstackLinkedIn: Juergen Berkessel
- 3 weeks ago18 min
The Courage Gap
The companion podcast to Issue No.89 of The Intersect. This one is different: instead of the usual two-host conversation, the curator sits in the chair and answers for himself, in his own voice, while the host presses him. The question she keeps circling: when does hiding your stance so the work can travel further stop being a strategy and start being an alibi? Come sit with the gap.Contents00:02 Vacation and New Issue00:34 The Courage Gap02:37 Vanity Fair Cover Debate05:29 AI Film Under Fire08:39 The Sky of Infinite Wishes11:36 Papier-Mâché Titanic Protest13:55 Marching Into the FieldsIn this episodeWhere the title came from The curator traces "The Courage Gap" back to a single protest image, hundreds of likes, and not one mind moved. The uncomfortable idea underneath the whole issue starts here.The Vanity Fair cover debate A famous photographer restages a 200-year-old painting for a cover of the man selling the fog. Subversive, or flattering? The curator admits he cannot tell, and wonders if the artist can either.The AI film under fire A feature made for $2,000 where every frame is generated so real faces stay safe. The sharper question the curator does not enjoy asking: are we forgiving the tool because we approve of the message?The sky of infinite wishes Good omens that never stop arriving, with the machinery left visible on screen. An uncanny valley of abundance, and a quiet tilt you could walk right past and miss.The papier-mâché Titanic Five feet of cardboard outside a developer event, craft he genuinely admires. And yet: who is it actually for, and is reminding your own people they are not crazy the whole job?Marching into the fields A coalition that skips the gallery and stands on contested land. Reach versus audience, blunt against allegory, and why nobody scrolls past a body in a field.Stay in the loopIf this conversation is your kind of crossing, follow along and help keep The Intersect going.Website: theintersect.artInstagram: @theintersectnewsThreads: @jberkesselBlueSky: @polymash.bsky.socialSubstack: The Intersect on SubstackLinkedIn: Juergen Berkessel
- Sep 22, 202613 min
The Stupidest Way Is Sometimes the Best Way
The companion podcast to Issue No.88 of The Intersect, and a different kind of episode: this week the curator, Juergen, sits in the guest chair while our host asks him to defend a title. When machines can generate anything in seconds, why would four people choose the hardest, silliest path on purpose, and find something there worth keeping? Come sit on the corner and watch.Contents00:03 Heavy News, Silly Craft01:44 The AI Panic Spreads02:22 One Finger, One Court04:19 A Metal Magnet Joke07:04 Artists, Games, and Curators09:31 Clocks in the Browser11:38 Charming or Poignant?In this episodeHeavy news, silly craft After the heaviest issue this newsletter gets, Juergen goes looking for something light. The news, as usual, has other ideas.One finger, one court A London artist and a vintage typewriter, a million keystrokes, one index finger. Juergen tries to explain why this moves him and a nine-second image generator doesn't.A metal magnet joke A New Zealand studio machined a slab of aluminium to do the job of a fridge magnet. Two millimetres of committed craft spent entirely on the punchline, and Juergen would hang it on his wall.Artists, games, and curators A video game where the final boss is a museum curator, and the artwork is only finished when you lose. Juergen chuckled. Uncomfortably.Clocks in the browser Two brothers rebuilt a $200,000 clock installation in a browser and gave it away, complete with a secret star. Is it art, or craft quietly climbing toward it?Charming or poignant? A week later, with the news still going, Juergen still can't decide, and starts to wonder whether the two were ever separate.Stay in the loopIf your week has also felt heavy, here is one email that isn't about the end of the world. Follow along and support The Intersect.Website: theintersect.artInstagram: @theintersectnewsThreads: @jberkesselBlueSky: @polymash.bsky.socialSubstack: The Intersect on SubstackLinkedIn: Juergen Berkessel
- Sep 15, 202620 min
Artists on the Architecture of After 9/11
The companion podcast to Issue No.87 of The Intersect. Chelsea and Georgia sit with a question that has been quietly reshaping how we look at everything: when did images stop showing us the world and start acting on it? Twenty-five years after the emergency began, they trace the shift from picture as window to picture as lever, and ask what we are still looking at.Contents00:10 Opening 9/11 Memory02:25 Images as Instruments03:56 Paglin and Machine Vision06:17 9/11 and Broken Trust09:21 Refugees Train the Machines12:20 The Targeting Blimp15:37 Carpet as WitnessIn this episodeSeeing like a machine Trevor Paglen makes a claim Chelsea can barely wrap her head around: this shift matters more than the invention of photography itself. What does it mean when an image is no longer a window but something someone else is pulling on you?The moment trust broke Weapons that were not there, footage sold as surgical precision, pictures used for what they did not show. Georgia and Chelsea follow the drift back to a single anniversary, and the feeling that started that day.The people who taught the machine to see Three refugees in a camp, tagging thousands of images, building the very tools that would later flag people like them. It is a loop so unsettling it took a prize-winning installation to name it.Would you stand under the blimp? A helium dirigible reads your posture and sorts you into a category: enemy or civilian. The surveillance gets turned back on the people who usually do the watching, and you become the subject.A carpet that becomes history A painter who refuses preparatory drawings turns a threadbare office carpet into a question about certainty itself. What do we lose when the machine connects every dot for us?Stay in the loopIf art that refuses the official version is your kind of thing, follow along and support The Intersect.Website: theintersect.artInstagram: @theintersectnewsThreads: @jberkesselBlueSky: @polymash.bsky.socialSubstack: The Intersect on SubstackLinkedIn: Juergen Berkessel
- Sep 2, 202612 min
Built to Last, Designed to Vanish
The companion podcast to Issue No.86 of The Intersect. Chelsea and Georgia sit with an uncomfortable question: when did the work we make digitally become more fragile than a photographer's glass plate, and what would it actually take to design something meant to outlive us? A conversation about permanence as a deliberate act, not a promise the cloud quietly keeps.Contents00:07 Permanent by Design00:51 Cage's 639-Year Piece05:39 Saving Artists’ Websites07:37 Building Your Own Archive09:59 Copy That FloppyIn this episodeCage's 639-Year Piece An organ in a small German church just changed chords for the first time in over two years, and nobody in the room will live to hear the piece end. Chelsea and Georgia get into the strangest part: the inheritable tickets to a finale six centuries away.Saving Artists' Websites An artist's site is no longer a business card. It's the whole record of a life's work, and it can blink out overnight. There's a quiet rescue effort underway, and it isn't only chasing the famous names.Building Your Own Archive For the rest of us who will never be famous enough for anyone else to build the lifeboat. One question from the piece lingers: which drive in the drawer would you grieve if it never spun up again?Copy That Floppy Three decades after a campaign told kids not to duplicate discs, a university is now begging people to do exactly that. The delicious irony carries the sting of the whole issue.Stay in the loopIf these are the conversations you want in your week, follow along and help keep The Intersect going.Website: theintersect.artInstagram: @theintersectnewsThreads: @jberkesselBlueSky: @polymash.bsky.socialSubstack: The Intersect on SubstackLinkedIn: Juergen Berkessel
- Aug 26, 202615 min
Prove You're Human (And Dumb It Down to Do It)
The companion podcast to Issue No.85 of The Intersect. Chelsea and Georgia sit with a strange inversion: original human work now needs a hall pass while the machine-made flood walks right in. When did proving you wrote something start to mean making it worse? Pull up a chair for the messier version of this week's reckoning.Contents00:15 Human Work on Trial02:27 Writers, AI, and Backlash05:34 Apple’s Photo Proof Push08:20 Substack’s Humanity Test11:55 The Detector Arms RaceIn this episodeHuman Work on Trial A celebrated novelist walks into OpenAI expecting to talk craft, then aims the microphone right back at the people who handed it to him. What Chelsea and Georgia make of that catastrophic line is worth staying for.Writers, AI, and Backlash One generation folds AI in as an editor and calls the work better; another treats any trace of it as disqualifying. The split runs deeper than tools, and the closing question lands hard.Apple’s Photo Proof Push Your phone maker may soon offer to certify that your photo is actually real. Relief or quiet defeat? The line between edited and generated turns out to be blurrier than anyone wants to admit.Substack’s Humanity Test An optional scan that some treat as a purity test, and the false positives that land on people writing every word by hand. Where the honest writer gets caught is the part nobody has answered yet.The Detector Arms Race Machines built to catch machine text, and other machines built to hide it. Most people are betting on the wrong mouse, and there's a genuinely clever workaround that removes the thing there was to detect in the first place.Stay in the loopFollow along and help keep The Intersect going. We would love to have you in the conversation.Website: theintersect.artInstagram: @theintersectnewsThreads: @jberkesselBlueSky: @polymash.bsky.socialSubstack: The Intersect on SubstackLinkedIn: Juergen Berkessel
- Aug 11, 202617 min
Already Somewhere Else
The companion podcast to Issue No.84 of The Intersect. While an auction house spends a whole summit guessing what the newly minted AI rich might one day hang on a wall, Chelsea and Georgia sit with a sharper question: what if the tools those fortunes were built on are more interesting in the hands of the people pointing them the other way? A conversation about who's actually studying whom.Contents00:00 AI Wealth and Wall Art00:04 The Coat That Blinds00:09 Malware Garden Protest00:11 Scanning Wrong on Purpose00:14 Listening to the QuietIn this episodeAI Wealth and Wall Art A summit billed as art plus tech turns out to be something closer to a sales forecast. Chelsea and Georgia unpack why the aperture felt so narrow - and whose mind might have been the real story on that stage.The Coat That Blinds A garment wrapped in AI-generated noise that quietly refuses to be read as a human figure. Elegant judo, or a workaround for a problem that was never ours to wear? The full context is in the issue.Malware Garden Protest Code that locks your machine for a day and grows a garden instead of demanding a ransom. We ask whether forced disconnection still means anything in an age when we pay to do it to ourselves.Scanning Wrong on Purpose A school chair, a scanner fed only fragments, and a Golden Nica for the sculpture built from everything the machine couldn't see. When did a perfect scan become more truthful than an honest one?Listening to the Quiet Magnetized needles tapping glass, letting you hear the Earth's magnetic field - but only if you slow down enough to bother. The gentlest thing in the issue, and maybe the most pointed.Stay in the loopIf this conversation left you curious, follow along and support the work - the newsletter is where the links, the curation, and the full context live.Website: theintersect.artInstagram: @theintersectnewsThreads: @jberkesselBlueSky: @polymash.bsky.socialSubstack: The Intersect on SubstackLinkedIn: Juergen Berkessel
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Curious about how technology and art collide, spark, and sometimes totally confuse each other? The Intersect of Tech and Art is your backstage pass to the wild, weird, and wonderful world where digital innovation meets creative expression. Created by Juergen Berkessel—a lifelong artist, technologist, and enthusiast for all things experimental—this podcast is for anyone who loves art, design, tech, or just a good story about the creative process. Whether you’re a digital artist, designer, tech enthusiast, or simply fascinated by how artificial intelligence, digital tools, and new technologies are shaking up the arts, you’ll find real-world insights and plenty of inspiration here. Each week, The Intersect dives into everything from digital art and AI in art to creative technology, design trends, and the latest breakthroughs in art technology. Expect lively features about artists and innovators, hands-on explorations of AI creativity, algorithmic art, and musings on how blockchain, augmented reality, and digital culture are transforming the art community. Episodes are packed with honest conversations, practical examples, and a healthy dose of friendly curiosity—plus a few laughs along the way. What sets The Intersect apart? It’s guided by Juergen’s unique perspective as someone who’s been both a practicing artist and a digital strategist since the days when floppy disks were still cool. The show was born out of the same curiosity and tension that drives the art-tech world: how do we balance human creativity with the possibilities (and pitfalls) of technology? That’s what keeps our community of artists, technologists, and innovators coming back. Episodes run 20–30 minutes and make for a perfect listen during your coffee break, commute, or creative session. You’ll hear a mix of in-depth interviews, solo commentary, and the occasional panel-style discussion—always with a light, friendly tone that makes even the most complex tech trends feel accessible. A little transparency: this podcast is produced with the help of AI voice technology and synthetic voice tools. Why? Because frankly, the only way to bring this carefully researched, lovingly curated content from the newsletter to your ears each week is by experimenting with the very tools we talk about. Every episode is crafted, written, and reviewed by Juergen and a human team—AI is just our sidekick, not the boss. We see this as part of the ongoing conversation (and sometimes the tension) at the heart of art and tech today.
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