
Writer/curator Cathy Byrd sparks conversations about today’s art, design, and film on the Fresh Art International podcast. Synthesizing interviews and field recordings with critical commentary since 2011, the podcast archives the voices, sounds, and stories of contemporary culture makers from around the world.
Episodes

Thursday May 11, 2017
Carolee Schneemann on Fearless Artmaking
Thursday May 11, 2017
Thursday May 11, 2017
Carolee Schneemann talks about painting, performance, censorship and resistance in a telephone conversation recorded just days before she receives the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the opening of the 57th Venice Art Biennale.
Featured performance audio: Interior Scroll, The Cave, 1995, courtesy Carolee Schneemann and Electronic Arts Intermix
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Wednesday May 03, 2017
The Future of Art
Wednesday May 03, 2017
Wednesday May 03, 2017
Welcome to the Future of Art! We begin to talk about technologies that are transforming our global art eco-system—from art making to art history, from community engagement to collecting, and more.
Art Seeker founder and art collector, Helene Lamarque, along with Emmanuel Trenche, product marketing manager, share how Art Seeker is disrupting the art market by bringing art buyers and sellers together using geolocation technology.
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens team members Mark Osterman (education and engagement) and Gina Wouters (contemporary art program), with Harry Tapias (Vizcaya’s digital visioning task force), take you behind the curtain to reveal the museum’s evolving involvement with new technologies—from experiments with 3-D and virtual reality to curating exhibitions that pair artists with tech experts.

Thursday Apr 27, 2017
Marcus Gammel on Every Time A Ear Di Soun
Thursday Apr 27, 2017
Thursday Apr 27, 2017
Marcus Gammel, with Deutschlandradio Kultur, talks about Every Time A Ear Di Soun, an exciting radio program he co-curated with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung for the documenta 14 art exhibition in Athens, Greece, and Kassel, Germany, from April to September 2017.

Wednesday Apr 19, 2017
Spring Contemporary 2017 at Miami's Deering Estate
Wednesday Apr 19, 2017
Wednesday Apr 19, 2017
Live streaming our radio show from the studio at Jolt Radio, Miami, we delve into the Deering Estate, where contemporary art meets nature, history, science and new technologies. Our show begins with a conversation that Cathy Byrd recorded in Havana with artist Mary Mattinglyabout Pull, a project Ms. Mattingly realized through the Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana. Pull was on view during the 12th annual Havana Biennial.
Introducing the environmental focus of the Spring Contemporary 2017 exhibition at the Deering Estate: Kim Yantis, the Cultural Arts Curator for the Deering Estate in Miami, Florida. Nelly Bonilla and Oscar Luna, creators of Home Eleven, a collaboration that allows them to dream and create interactive spaces in Miami and beyond. Archival Feedback (Emile Blair Milgrim, T Wheeler Castillo), artists based in Miami, FL who approach the environment as a studio in the field, accessing the landscape through sound.
Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

Thursday Apr 13, 2017
Patricia Cronin on Making Art History
Thursday Apr 13, 2017
Thursday Apr 13, 2017
New York-based artist Patricia Cronin talks about women, power and sexuality inside her Tack Room installation at the 2017 Armory Show. Her reprise of the immersive environment she exhibited 20 years ago sparks this conversation about feminist issues, politics, and the artist's resolve to represent untold stories about women.

Wednesday Apr 05, 2017
Borscht Film Festival at 10
Wednesday Apr 05, 2017
Wednesday Apr 05, 2017
On this live streaming show, we hold a post-mortem review of Borscht Diez (AKA Borscht 10), the Borscht Corporation‘s tenth film festival in Miami, Florida. Our conversations introduce the collective energy behind the city’s homegrown film culture and explore a selection of the 2017 festival screenings and special events.
With us in the studio at Jolt Radio, Miami, are local filmmakers Lucas Leyva, Jonathan David Kane and Nayib Estefan of the Secret Celluloid Society. The show also features a skype conversation with New York-based filmmaker Alexa Lim Haas whose newest animated short premiered at Borscht 10.
Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

Thursday Mar 30, 2017
Nato Thompson on Culture as Weapon
Thursday Mar 30, 2017
Thursday Mar 30, 2017
Nato Thompson, curator and critical writer, talks about his new book Culture as Weapon, and how politicians, corporations and artists use cultural aesthetics to channel their agendas and motivate collective actions.

Wednesday Mar 22, 2017
Creativity in the Public Realm
Wednesday Mar 22, 2017
Wednesday Mar 22, 2017
Come with us to explore creativity in the public realm through the lens of Miami’s Public Space Challenge, an annual grant opportunity that invites residents to propose creative projects for their neighborhoods. You’ll hear how art installations, architectural interventions, and inventive public performance projects can transform a parking space, a building, a park, and more.
Joining us in the studio at Jolt Radio, Miami: The Miami Foundation’s Stuart Kennedy, Principal of Plusurbia Design Juan Mullerat, Buskerfest Miami founders Amy C. San Pedro and Justin Trieger. Call-in: NEWT co-founder, Dejha Carrington.
Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

Thursday Mar 16, 2017
Occupy Museums on Artists and Debt
Thursday Mar 16, 2017
Thursday Mar 16, 2017
Occupy Museums is the artist collective behind Debtfair, a project in the 2017 Whitney Biennial. In a national call, they invited artists to answer the question: "How does your economic reality affect your art?" Their 30-foot wall installation exposes the complex and obscure financial systems that lie just beneath the surface of the art scene in the United States.

Wednesday Mar 08, 2017
Miami's 21st Century Radio World
Wednesday Mar 08, 2017
Wednesday Mar 08, 2017
Join our 21st century radio show adventure as we hear from Roman Mars about what inspired him to create 99% Invisible, a radio show and podcast series featuring architecture and design. In this episode of our live streaming radio show, meet the players presenting The Wolfsonian-FIU‘s first RadioFest, sharing the voices of local radio journalism, playwriting, and rehearsals for two of the radio plays to be featured at The Wolf.
With us in the studio at Jolt Radio, Miami: WLRN Public Radio and Television‘s Christine DiMattei, The Wolfsonian-FIU’s Heather Cook Gonzalez, and playwrights William Hector and Vanessa Garcia. Call-in: Kenny Finkle, master playwright.
Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan