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Hope Podcast: Featuring Rob Anderson, MDiv Candidate by Harvard Divinity School
A.I., Hip-Hop, and the Digital Uncanny – A Talk with Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky
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1 month ago
A.I., Hip-Hop, and the Digital Uncanny – A Talk with Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky
For Episode 16 of Pop Apocalypse, we welcome composer, artist, and media theorist Paul Miller. Miller is best known for his music as DJ Spooky, the avant-garde turntableist who has collaborated with artists ranging from Chuck D to Yoko Ono. He has also re-scored classic films, such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and his art has been showcased in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
In this wide-ranging conversation, we asked Paul to explore the eeriness of life in the digital age. We touch on the perils and possibilities of artificial intelligence, the role of the DJ, Japanese Butoh as a response to nuclear tragedy, re-scoring D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, and how Einstein, science fiction, and Sun Ra have shaped Miller’s work.
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Hope Podcast: Featuring Rob Anderson, MDiv Candidate by Harvard Divinity School
