Episode 2: Sean Thielen-Esparza
Published: 29/11/2024
Sean Thielen-Esparza is an independent creative technologist & object maker based in New York City.
Currently, he is partnering with founders on product & brand strategy at Menagerie and writing about creation at Language.
Previously, he led Genesis as a co-founder & CEO and created a crypto wallet with an iconic brand. Before that, he was a PM at Hyperscience on a zero-to-one AI product that scaled to millions in revenue. In his free time, he runs a professional design studio in Brooklyn where he make objects (mostly furniture) and incubate emerging designers.
Episode 1: Benjamin Earl
Published: 30/10/2024
Benjamin Earl is a Designer and Artistic Technologist with an interest in the digitisation of everyday life, the rendering and simulation of physical environments, and digital communication and knowledge sharing practices. In his work he uses moving image and computer programming to create films, websites, installations and performances that reveal entangled narratives and complex power structures.
His work involves looking closely at the material and tangible ruptures of digital culture whilst simultaneously trying to imagine new ways of computing that can be contextual, situated and relational. His work has been exhibited at Het Nieuwe Insituut (Rotterdam), Impakt Festival (Utrecht), Bureau Europa (Maastricht), Fibre Festival (Amsterdam) and CIVA Festival (Vienna) amongst others. He has a BA in Graphic Design from Falmouth University, UK and an MA in Non Linear Narrative from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.
You can find more about Ben on his website https://bnjmnearl.eu
You can find all the links mentioned in this episode on the Inventory-ing website
Links
- Masters Course: Non Linear Narrative
- Quote: In the 1980s blockbuster science documentary series Cosmos, American astrophysicist and famed science populariser Carl Sagan said, “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe”
- Blog: A Letter to 2022 by Benjamin Earl
- Book: How to Do Nothing by Jenny O'Dell
- Project: Community Memory was the first public computerized bulletin board system. Established in 1973 in Berkeley, California.
- Blog: The Post Individual by Yancey Strickler
- Project: Beaker Browser, was an experimental peer-to-peer Web browser in 2018.
- Space: Varia, a space for developing collective approaches to everyday technology
- Space: Robida, a collective that works at the intersection of written and spoken words.
- Experiment: Good Times Bad Times, currently a radio experiment, broadcasting 24/7(ish) from Extra Practice
- Practice: Site-writing by Jane Rendell, Writer, researcher and educator.
- Book: Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal
- Workshop: Ultralight: Lightweight Websites in Time & Place.
- Project: Mark Beasley anonymous mouse cursor traces from past visitors. Mark Beasley is an artist, developer, and educator
- Book: A Biography of the Pixel by Alvy Ray Smith
- Social file exchange: USB Club
- Company: Teal Process & Company. The company is always an open question.
- Blog: Windows and Webcams by Benjamin Earl
- Person: Noah Kalina, photographer
- Project: Lumberland by Noah Kalina
- Company: Folder Studio. A Los Angeles based graphic design studio.
- Project: Observing Time by Studio Folder. An ongoing collection of slow-refresh-rate lookout cameras.
- “we have a newsletter at our studio, Extra Practice”
- “Like I was scrolling for your like Coding in-situ kind of blog post”
- Service/project: Are.na.
- Podcast: “They've really had to stick to their convictions of like, this is what Arena is and what it represents, and it would be so easy. I think I was listening to a podcast with one of the founders the other day and they're like, oh, why don't you bring in like AI indexing and like similarity?”