Both/And: Recent Episodes

Michael James Lewis

A series of conversations with artists, designers, and those living consciously

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A conversation with Max Eisenberg of DJ Dog Dick about his journey into the world of noise, his time with Nautical Almanac, playing with Animal Collective, and the nature of time.

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This is part two of a conversation with Dr. Sarah Dillon about how the palimpsest works as a metaphor for thinking about and understanding contemporary storage of data. 

http://thepeoplescloud.org/

http://drsarahdillon.com/

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This is part one of a conversation with Dr. Sarah Dillon about how the palimpsest works as a metaphor for thinking about and understanding contemporary storage of data. 

http://thepeoplescloud.org/

http://drsarahdillon.com/

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This is part of a conversation I had with artist Alice Channer about her working process and what it means to interact with the world. You can see examples of Alice’s work at both of her gallery websites:

The Approach / London

www.theapproach.co.uk/artists/channer/

Lisa Cooley / New York

www.lisa-cooley.com/artists/alice-channer

Music in this episode was sourced from the Free Music Archive, including Jari Pitkanen, Light Asylum, Miquel, junior85, and Spuntic.

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A conversation with comedian/miner Mike Wood about vocational passion.

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A conversation with designers Andrew Friend and Sitraka Rakotoniaina about their approach to design and the Prophesy Program.

http://www.andrewfriend.co.uk/

https://sitraka.co.uk/

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I sat down with my old friend Colin Carroll in the Great Smoky Mountains to hear about his journey from a philosophy student at Washington University in St. Louis to a trail maintenance leader for the National Parks Service.

Music was sourced from the Free Music Archive and includes Met Met and Sputnik.

freemusicarchive.org/

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A conversation about notions of the self with Turner Prize nominee Mark Titchner. www.marktitchnerstudio.com/

Music in this episode is from Emuul's 'Plus One' from The Drawing of the Line. Find more here.

emuul.bandcamp.com/

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I sat down with artist Charles Avery to talk about his Islanders project, narrative, facts, discovery, and nonsense.

Music in this episode is by Bill Frisell with Ron Carter and Paul Motian, Monster Rally, Mulatu Astatke and the Heliocentrics, and The Books.

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This is part of a conversation I had with designer David Benqué about his Infinite Adventure Machine and stories in general. Please let me know what you think!

Check out more of David's work at http://davidbenque.com/

Music used in the podcast include Bill Evans 'Peace Piece,' Balam Acab 'Big Boy,' and Keith Jarrett 'For All we Know.'