Adriana Vecchioli is a French-Italian actress, filmmaker and XR designer, living in Los Angeles. She has co-founded an XR design studio, Velvet Unicorn, in L.A. Formerly a software engineer, she left Twitter to follow her passion for filmmaking. Blending software magic with artistry, Adriana designed immersive experiences for the likes of: Warner Bros., Viacom, The Hunger Games, NBA, Coachella and Snapchat. Please support her kickstarter campaign, ending July 23, 2021, by visiting the COMIN’ IN HOT page.

In this second series of the #WeMakeMedia Podcast, I speak with authors, educators and technologists about new and digital literacies in classrooms and community-engaged arts settings. January 1 - On Technology and New Literacies, with science and technology writer Clive Thompson author of Smarter Than You Think and Coders January 2 - On Game-Based Learning, with educator Paul Darvasi January 8 - On Co-creation, with Katerina Cizek from the MIT Open Documentary Lab January 9 - On Algorithmic Literacy, with Barabara Fister from Project Information Literacy January 15 - On Memes and Social Movements, with author An Xioa Mina January 16 - On Deep Fakes and Social Media, with technology researcher Carl Miller January 29 - On Ways of Hearing, with sound and technology researcher Milena Droumeva January 30 - On Emoji and Linguistics, with author Vyvyan Evans

In this episode, I speak with Professor Vyvyan Evans, author of The Emoji Code: The Linguistics Behind Smiley Faces and Scaredy Cats, about how emoji makes us better communicators and what linguistic and literacy traditionalists are misunderstanding about its power.

In this episode, I speak with Milena Droumeva, professor in Sound Studies at Simon Fraser University, about how our relationship with sound is shaped by culture, the audio in audio/visual media literacy and the role technology plays in mediating our acoustic environments.

In this very short podcast extra, Carl Miller and I discuss Blockchain technology and it's potential to combat deep fakes by authenticating and time-stamping media iterations.

In this episode I speak with pioneering technology researcher Carl Miller about deep fakes, information warfare, and how synthetic media environments are changing democracy and disrupting power systems. Carl Miller is the co-founder and Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos, the first UK think tank institute dedicated to studying the digital world. He combines data and analysis with immersive, first-hand reporting. His first book, The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab, was published in 2018 by Penguin RandomHouse.

In this episode I speak with An Xiao Mina, author of Memes to Movements: How the Worlds Most Viral Media is Changing Social Protest and Power. We talk about the "chaos magic" created by meme wars, the need for CONTEXT creation online and how we have been making cat-GIFs for thousands of years.

In this episode I speak with librarian Barbara Fister about the growing role of algorithms in our daily lives, why the architects of these systems matter, and how the move to online learning in expanding student awareness of surveillance culture. Project Information Literacy (PIL) is a nonprofit research institute that conducts ongoing, national studies on what it is like being a student in the digital age. In the past decade,

Emmy-award winning ⁦web documentarian Katerina Cizek and I discuss co-creation in media, human/nonhuman intelligence and media literacy as an antidote to deep fakes.

In this episode I speak with PHD and high school educator Paul Darvasi about game-based-education, how augmented can be used to animate urban spaces for learning and the role of artificial intelligence in revolutionizing metrics for evaluating student success.

In this episode I speak with author Clive Thompson about the new literacies that technology and the internet present us with, speaking to an authentic audience and the importance of a formal K-12 education in all of it.

In this first series, I talk with new media artists about the experiences making art in the age of the internet.

In this episode, I talk with Famous New media Artist Jeremy Bailey about what CEOs and artists have in common, using SEO hacks as self fulfilling prophecy for success and why your first solo show in a big art institution will probably conflict with your values.

In this episode, I talk with Jonathan Carroll and Cat Bluemke of SpekWork Studio along with their Tough Guy Mountain performance collective member Iain Soder. We talk about how and why to make apps for art going audiences, how precarious employment isn’t just for artists anymore and how capitalism killed the brand-potential of Art.

In this episode, I talk with Jenn E Norton about kinetic sculpture, how the least experienced creators shape emerging technologies and how the artworld feels about moms.

In this episode, I talk with Afrofuturist Quentin VerCetty about making techno-fossils and augmented reality monuments that mark the presence of Black people across the Canadian landscape as well as space and time.

In this episode, I talk with animator James Kerr about getting the most out of your personal archives, how to use social media to collaborate with your favourite artists and the GIF-Renaissance happening around the time of his Scorpion Dagger project in 2012

In this episode I talk with performance, video and cosplay artist Maya Ben David about anthropomorphic airplanes, the many subcultures of fandom, and how content licensing prices artists out of production.

In this episode I talk with mashup artist, VJ and director Mike Relm about the poison of social media, why he still loves youtube the most and how audience analytics can help new media artists work smarter.

In this episode I talk with 4 teen-aged artists about changing the world with youtube, dollar store stylus pens, and their shared disdain for TikTok.