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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—and keeps our newsletter subscriber numbers growing strong (with almost nobody unsubscribing, which is practically a miracle). Episodes run 20–30 minutes and drop weekly, making The Intersect a perfect listen for 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. Ready to join the fun, learn something new, and be part of a growing community at the intersect of art, design, and technology? Subscribe now to The Intersect of Tech and Art and don’t miss a single episode. For all the latest and to explore the full archive, visit theintersect.art.
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- 3 weeks ago13 min
The Satellite Is the Camera
The companion podcast to Issue No.83 of The Intersect. Chelsea and Georgia chase one nagging question across the week's stories: when does a machine built to measure or manufacture quietly become a machine for feeling — and who gets to decide? It's a conversation about the friction, the honesty, and the doubt behind that move, not a tidy recap. The full issue waits at theintersect.art.Contents00:00 Satellite as Camera00:03 Listening to Plants00:05 Hockney's Machines00:08 Crystal Synth Experiments00:10 3D Printing on Runways00:12 Tools for FeelingIn this episodeSatellite as Camera Six uneventful days of water vapor, 22,000 miles up, turned into drifting brushstrokes. Chelsea and Georgia ask what else we've been staring at for years without realizing it was footage waiting for an editor.Listening to Plants A fern wired into a synthesizer hums a drone — but is the plant telling us something, or are we finally quiet enough to listen? The most refreshing part might be how willing these artists are to say they don't know.Hockney's Machines Fax machines, photocopiers, Polaroids — the proof that "tech in art" meant something long before it meant a glowing screen. And a question about the friction we may have traded away.Crystal Synth Experiments A microscope, a Moog, and real solar wind data, all patched together in 1982. When one curiosity reaches across that many fields, is it still one discipline or four pretending to be one?3D Printing on Runways Here's where the hosts genuinely disagree — a couture printer that makes each garment singular, or pure runway spectacle? They're honestly torn, and they're turning the question over to you.Tools for Feeling The thread that ties a satellite, a fern, a fax, a microscope, and a printer together — and the wondering it leaves behind about the measuring instrument sitting right next to you.Stay in the loopIf this is your kind of thing, come follow along and help keep The Intersect going.Website: theintersect.artInstagram: @theintersectnewsThreads: @jberkesselBlueSky: @polymash.bsky.socialSubstack: The Intersect on SubstackLinkedIn: Juergen Berkessel
- 4 weeks ago17 min
Happy 250th: Five Dispatches From Everywhere Else
The companion podcast to Issue No.82 of The Intersect. Chelsea and Georgia shut the curtains on the fireworks next door to ask a quietly provocative question: does great work require leaving home, or just knowing exactly where home is so you can leave it on purpose? An hour of looking everywhere but here — and wondering whether that's the most patriotic move of all.Contents00:00 Birthday Curator's Outward Eye00:01 Bjork Beyond the Album00:04 Aurora Turned to Sound00:07 Silent Lives in the Frame00:11 Rippled Glass and Credit00:13 Resistance Abroad in LEDIn this episodeBirthday Curator's Outward Eye Why an issue with zero American stories — released on America's 250th — might be the most earned kind of celebration. Chelsea and Georgia trace the curatorial logic back to a Brooklyn courthouse and a deliberately outward gaze.Bjork Beyond the Album Reykjavik hangs Bjork on a gallery wall as painter, video artist, and musician all at once. When a song stops being only a song, where does the artwork begin?Aurora Turned to Sound A Norwegian artist builds her own crystal radio to transpose the northern lights into sound — and the result raises an uncomfortable question about the gap between a compelling concept and a compelling experience.Silent Lives in the Frame Photographs of extinct birds, lit so tenderly they seem to breathe, with the stitches left visible. A deliberately non-AI pick that asks when technology has to look like technology to count.Rippled Glass and Credit A Brisbane theater whose facade ripples like water — and a thorny question about who gets to claim a vision when a new tool makes it thinkable for the first time.Resistance Abroad in LED Jenny Holzer stages American political resistance in Porto, in spinning LED and stone. When does a word stop being a word and start becoming a machine for moving people?Stay in the loopIf this conversation sparked something, follow along and help keep The Intersect running.Website: theintersect.artInstagram: @theintersectnewsThreads: @jberkesselBlueSky: @polymash.bsky.socialSubstack: The Intersect on SubstackLinkedIn: Juergen Berkessel
- Jun 25, 202614 min
Credibility Is the New Craft
The companion podcast to Issue No.81 of The Intersect. Chelsea and Georgia chase a single unsettling idea: the moment a tool gets frictionless, the hardest thing left to generate isn't the work — it's belief. What happens when skepticism arrives before anyone's even looked? Pull up a chair for the conversation behind the issue.Contents00:00 The Story Before the Work00:01 AI in the Back Office00:02 The Middle Ground Matters00:04 Grimes and the Wrong Platform00:06 Soderbergh's Meta Disclosure00:08 AI Art, Under Suspicion00:10 Betting on Art's Value00:13 Trust Arrives Too LateIn this episodeThe story before the work Chelsea and Georgia open on the reflex of the moment — judging the company an artist keeps before anyone's seen the thing itself. Why has craft quietly migrated from making something well to getting anyone to believe in it?AI in the back office The least dramatic AI story in the issue, and on purpose. There's one corner where nobody's storming out of the gallery — and it might tell you more than all the outrage combined.The middle ground matters Forget back-office plumbing and front-end image generation. Where exactly does the tool stop being a tool and start becoming a collaborator? That's the part that actually earns scrutiny.Grimes and the wrong platform A line about boomer grandparents that lodges itself like a bad jingle. When the only platforms left with reach are built for corporate networking, what happens to the trust we extend to art made for them?Soderbergh's Meta disclosure He called himself his own whistleblower — and then took the heat twice over. Two backlashes happening at once, and a question about what we're really praising when the bravest move is naming the vendor.AI art, under suspicion A magazine devoted entirely to AI art that refuses to worship its subject. Why launching it now means starting from the deepest hole of all.Betting on art's value A live betting line where the price tag used to be. When the wager becomes the product, does value still mean anything — or is this just an old, very human game in a new costume?Trust arrives too late Chelsea and Georgia sit with the gap the whole issue circles: can trust ever move as fast as the tools, and what would it take to change a mind that decided in advance?Stay in the loopIf this tension is your kind of thing, follow along and help keep The Intersect going — there's a new issue every week.Website: theintersect.artInstagram: @theintersectnewsThreads: @jberkesselBlueSky: @polymash.bsky.socialSubstack: The Intersect on SubstackLinkedIn: Juergen Berkessel
- Jun 16, 202612 min
Contrast Is Meaning, Not Just Style
The companion podcast to Issue No.80 of The Intersect. Chelsea and Georgia sit with one uncomfortable idea: a thing is only what it is in relationship to what it's not — so when everything is technically correct and tonally identical, who's left to tell you what actually matters? Pull up a chair and argue along.Contents00:00 Contrast Sets the Theme00:01 TV's Gray Sameness00:04 Weaponizing Color Contrast00:06 Focus and Flatness00:09 AI and Lost DistinctionIn this episodeTV's gray sameness — Somebody finally named the problem with how modern prestige television looks. Chelsea and Georgia trace what happened between early Game of Thrones and the tasteful gray that came after — and wonder whether the tools, not the auteurs, drained the color out.Weaponizing color contrast — The opposite gamble: one stubborn splash of color aimed at your eye like a flashlight. From a red dress in a sea of code to Almodóvar's red phone on a green table, this is meaning before a single line of dialogue — the honest kind of manipulation.Focus and flatness — Same wound, different instrument. Why does so much contemporary cinematography feel weirdly flat? A conversation about creamy bokeh, deep focus, and what gets lost when portrait mode becomes the default grammar of prestige film.AI and lost distinction — Is AI sanding originality off the internet, or freeing creators up? Chelsea and Georgia chew on the difference between AI assistance and what Juergen calls AI abdication — the choice to skip having a point of view at all.Stay in the loopIf this kind of conversation is your thing, come follow along and support The Intersect.Website: theintersect.artInstagram: @theintersectnewsThreads: @jberkesselBlueSky: @polymash.bsky.socialSubstack: The Intersect on SubstackLinkedIn: Juergen Berkessel
- Jun 10, 20269 min
What the Building Knew First
The companion podcast to Issue No.79 of The Intersect. Chelsea and Georgia chase a slippery question: when did fragility — the fact that a work would fall apart if you moved it across the street — become the whole point? They sit with the idea that a building, a light angle, or a tree might be the real collaborator, and the artist's job is just to finish its sentence.Contents00:00 Fragility Becomes the Point00:00 The Glass Cloud in Manila00:04 Bowie in a 360 Room00:05 Nature Finishes the Art00:07 Cathedrals as InstrumentsIn this episodeThe Glass Cloud in Manila A Guinness-record glass cloud, eight stories tall and woven by hand from 16,000 tubes — built with custom robots and a parametric welding jig, yet it only reads correctly under one atrium's light. Chelsea and Georgia unpack why "amazing but harrowing" might be the recipe for the best work.Bowie in a 360 Room Finally, an immersive room that isn't another painter on rotation. What changes when you build a space around a musician instead of projecting a canvas — and why sound carries a kind of site-specificity an image can't.Nature Finishes the Art Street art that isn't finished until a leaf, a weed, or a fallen log joins in. The wager: hand the final move to nature and trust it to do better than you would.Cathedrals as Instruments Moment Factory tuning light and sound to a cathedral's own ten-second echo — the building composing alongside the artist. A personal story about Sagrada Família and the feeling that gets bolted to one exact place and light.For the full context, the links, and the curation, read the issue at theintersect.art.Stay in the loopIf this conversation is your kind of thing, follow along and help keep The Intersect going.Website: theintersect.artInstagram: @theintersectnewsThreads: @jberkesselBlueSky: @polymash.bsky.socialSubstack: The Intersect on SubstackLinkedIn: Juergen Berkessel
- May 19, 202613 min
Going Backward to Go Somewhere New
The companion podcast to Issue No.78 of The Intersect. Chelsea and Georgia sit with a question the newsletter only gestures at: when artists deliberately slow down — soldering their own synths, drawing with pendulums, dressing new software in 1970s clothing — is that creative progress, or just well-designed comfort in the face of AI? Pull up a chair for the friction.Contents00:00 Slow Tools, New Costumes00:01 The Software That Feels Old00:04 Build It Yourself Synths00:07 Innovation Meets Countermovement00:09 The Harmonograph Mystery00:12 What Deliberate Inefficiency MeansIn this episodeSlow Tools, New Costumes — Three very different objects, one suspiciously similar gesture. Chelsea and Georgia open with the hunch that's about to run through the whole conversation.The Software That Feels Old — Giorgio Sancristoforo's Homework runs on Apple Silicon but looks like it crawled out of a 1973 studio. Why do musicians keep choosing virtual patch cables when cleaner interfaces exist? The answer isn't really about sound.Build It Yourself Synths — The Music Thing Workshop Computer arrives as a bag of components. Thonk can't keep them on the shelves. A conversation about why people who grew up on plugins are now reaching for a soldering iron — and what that says about innovation in instruments versus innovation in sound.Innovation Meets Countermovement — Ellen McGirt's Design Observer piece traces a pattern older than any of us. Photography didn't kill painting; synths didn't kill acoustic music. So what becomes retro when AI image generation matures?The Harmonograph Mystery — Raf Jakob's wooden side table makes one drawing in ten minutes and then it's done. Is calling it furniture a meaningful gesture, or well-designed cope? Maybe both.What Deliberate Inefficiency Means — Four objects, one gesture. Chelsea and Georgia land on the honest answer — and on what the counter-movement to AI might actually look like when it arrives in full.Stay in the loopIf you want to sit with these questions every week, come find us — no hype, no doom, just the friction.Website: theintersect.artInstagram: @theintersectnewsThreads: @jberkesselBlueSky: @polymash.bsky.socialSubstack: The Intersect on SubstackLinkedIn: Juergen Berkessel
- May 12, 202619 min
The Same Sky, Two Feelings
The companion podcast to Issue No. 77 of The Intersect. Chelsea and Georgia sit with a question that doesn't resolve cleanly: when wonder and surveillance share the same infrastructure, does knowing that change what you felt before you knew it? The conversation keeps circling back — and it's worth following it all the way around.Contents00:00 Introduction to Aerial Perspectives00:00 Aerial Photography Competitions00:03 The Bittersweet Progress of Technology00:04 The Internet's Changing Nature00:06 The Arc of Technology00:08 Record-Breaking Drone Displays00:11 The Duality of Drone Art00:13 Absurdity in Drone Displays00:15 Sound and Surveillance Art00:17 Patterns of Technology and Control00:18 Conclusion: Coexisting RealitiesIn this episodeSeeing the world from above. DJI's SkyPixel competition is in its 11th year and has handed out nearly $200,000 in prizes — but the real question is what happens to the joy of a perspective when the tool that unlocks it also coordinates strikes.The internet's familiar arc. The web's journey from liberation to lock-in maps onto the drone story with uncomfortable precision. Chelsea and Georgia trace a pattern that, once you see it, is hard to stop seeing everywhere.22,582 drones, one computer. A new Guinness World Record for simultaneous airborne drones is genuinely awe-inspiring — and genuinely unsettling for exactly the same reason.Drift's Franchise Freedom at LACMA. A swarm-based drone performance that deliberately evokes starling murmurations raises a harder question: can art reclaim an image once its shadow has been cast?Skeletor trolls the freeway. A lighthearted pop-culture drone stunt turns out to be a useful measuring stick — for just how wide the gap has grown between what's possible here and what's possible elsewhere.The Harbinger: sound and surveillance. An art installation shifts the medium from the visual to the audible, asking when exactly we stopped noticing the surveillance creeping in — and what it sounds like when care and control become the same thing.Stay in the loopIf this conversation stayed with you, follow The Intersect for the full newsletter, the images, and Juergen's curation — weekly, free, and worth it.Website: theintersect.artInstagram: @theintersectnewsThreads: @jberkesselBlueSky: @polymash.bsky.socialSubstack: The Intersect on SubstackLinkedIn: Juergen Berkessel
- May 5, 202611 min
The Medium Always Survives Its Own Funeral
The companion podcast to Issue No. 76 of The Intersect. We sit with a question that refuses to stay still: if photography keeps surviving every medium that was supposed to kill it, is it actually the thing we thought it was — or something stranger and more stubborn? Listen before you read; the newsletter has the links, the curation, and the full context.Contents00:00 Photography's Unending Cycle00:02 The Return to Old Techniques00:03 Modern Interpretations of Historical Methods00:05 The Impact of AI on Photography00:07 AIPAD's Omission of AI00:08 Film History and Its Parallels00:09 Photography's Evolution, Not Death00:11 Embracing Ambiguity in ArtIn this episodeLartigue's color rebellion and the pattern it set. When Jacques-Henri Lartigue turned to color, purists called it treason. Chelsea and Georgia trace how that moment rhymes uncomfortably well with arguments happening right now — and what it suggests about which side of history tends to look foolish in retrospect.Cameras optional: the return to pre-lens chemistry. Some photographers working today have quietly put their cameras down and gone back to 18th-century light-sensitive experiments — photograms, expired paper from 1946, iodine-drenched skylights. The question isn't whether it's nostalgic. It's why it feels so urgent right now.AIPAD's conspicuous silence. Seventy-seven galleries, work stretching back to 1917, and not a word about AI-generated imagery. Chelsea and Georgia weigh whether that's principled confidence or something closer to whistling past a graveyard.What early film history is quietly telling us. A kaleidoscopic Aeon video about forgotten film pioneers lands differently when you're watching visual language shift in real time. The parallels are hard to ignore — and oddly steadying.Digital Doubles and the pleasure of not knowing. Carlo Zapella's Budapest show mixes analog photographs, 3D renders, and sculpture until you genuinely can't tell which is which. Chelsea and Georgia find it less unsettling than liberating — and maybe a preview of where photography goes from here.Stay in the loopIf these conversations are your kind of thing, follow The Intersect and help keep the curation going.Website: theintersect.artInstagram: @theintersectnewsThreads: @jberkesselBlueSky: @polymash.bsky.socialSubstack: The Intersect on SubstackLinkedIn: Juergen Berkessel
About The Intersect of Tech and Art
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—and keeps our newsletter subscriber numbers growing strong (with almost nobody unsubscribing, which is practically a miracle). Episodes run 20–30 minutes and drop weekly, making The Intersect a perfect listen for 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. Ready to join the fun, learn something new, and be part of a growing community at the intersect of art, design, and technology? Subscribe now to The Intersect of Tech and Art and don’t miss a single episode. For all the latest and to explore the full archive, visit theintersect.art.
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