Best Killscreen Podcasts (2025)

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When Games Become Casinos: The Gamblification of Everything 31:20

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8d ago31:20

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What happens when the mechanics of slot machines migrate into the games we play—and then into everything else? In this episode, Jamin Warren speaks with Dr. Joseph Macey and Topias Mattinen about how gambling systems have become standard features in mainstream games, and why those same techniques are now appearing in shopping apps, collectible toys…

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Silicon Valley in a Sand Trap with Sam Ghantous 25:39

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The same silica that powers your GPU fills the sand traps at Augusta National. Artist Sam Ghantous joins us to discuss "your golf course made my GPU," his three-channel video installation that traces the geological origins of our digital obsessions. Ghantous admits he's afraid of hardware. Despite this—or because of it—he's spent the past year conf…

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Exploring the material culture of games with metalwork, jewelry, and a little bit of horror 48:24

2+ y ago48:24

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Artist, jeweler, metalsmith, and art conservator Lauren Eckert shows us what it means to look at craftsmanship through a contemporary lens. Drawing from inspiration from the objects in video games, religious iconography, and classic science fiction VFX, Lauren’s work gives metals and jewelry a life on screen—and similarly, digital objects a physica…

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How to design political games with a broken heart 53:37

2+ y ago53:37

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Can games seep into life's political, social, and cultural realms? Across projects that fuse game development, filmmaking within game engines, LARP (live-action role play), and more, Mario Mu interrogates this question. The Croatian-born artist now lives in Berlin, where he researches games, labor, and memory. After a career illustrating for commer…

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Sam and Andy Rolfes put the life in livesteam 33:40

4+ y ago33:40

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Sam and Andy Rolfes self-describe their work as “overly navel-gazing, obsessed-with-layers, weird.” From visualizing songs by Lady Gaga and BLACKPINK to facilitating mind-bending, improvisational performances at MoMA, the duo are in a perpetual toggle between real life and the screen. Cleverly using VR, mixed reality, figurative animation, and moti…

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Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley creates game worlds from autonomous archives 20:08

4+ y ago20:08

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What happens when games account for the players’ identities? Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s work does just this. Traversing game design, performance, and sound art, the London-born, Berlin-based artist constructs stratified game experiences that depend on the player’s privilege. Someone who identifies as Black and trans will have a distinct gameplay…

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Rachel Rossin creates entropy from infinity 15:16

5y ago15:16

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How do we account for the tension between technology’s infinite, unrestricted promise and the impermanence of being human? Rachel Rossin interrogates this slippage. Floating between painting, VR worlds, holograms, and more, the Brooklyn-based artist carries with her the essence of what it means to be alive. Rossin’s work meditates on and pushes the…

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Salome Asega on cultivating the ecosystem of art and technology 31:02

5y ago31:02

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Embodied” may be the best word to describe the projects of artist, researcher, and educator Salome Asega. She has created VR experiences that evoke the channeling of diasporic spirits, a Kinect lesson that reinstates a dance form’s history, and a roulette wheel that sends participants to lesser-known corners of a world-famous museum. Experiences th…

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Gayatri Kodikal excavates the ruins of history, time, and play 32:17

5y ago32:17

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On a walk around Old Goa, artist Gayatri Kodikal chanced upon an archaeological dig in progress. Her curiosity swelling, she jumped over the fence to see what was on the other side: a mysterious severed hand thought to belong to an ancient Georgian queen. This object spearheaded a multi-year, multi-pronged project spanning research, storytelling, f…

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Yasmin Elayat believes art drives innovation 32:11

5y ago32:11

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Yasmin Elayat is a self-proclaimed ‘hybrid’—she’s a new-media documentarian, a creative technologist, a collaborative storyteller, and a spatial designer. She co-created #18DaysinEgypt, a collaborative documentary centered on the Egyptian revolution; co-directed an interactive documentary set within the New York City subway system, Blackout, and Ze…

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Nicole He on talking to computers 31:04

5y ago31:04

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Nicole He is a creative technologist whose work lives in the space between video games, physical computing, and witty conceptual art. With experience advising projects for Kickstarter and imagining projects for Google, she’s programmed AI to converse with Billie Eilish for Vogue, physical sensors that help users swipe on a dating app and a Twitter …

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Monument Valley's Lea Schönfelder on designing within constraints 18:41

5+ y ago18:41

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When we look at our phone screens, we typically aren’t thinking about the borders. We don’t notice the edges of our phones and how those boundaries limit our experience. It’s no wonder Apple’s crowning achievement for the iPhone X was adding a teeeeny bit of space to the edge of the phone. But that little frame for designers is everything. Things y…

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Videogames, conspiracy theories and the American imagination 17:54

5+ y ago17:54

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p>-- We recorded this long before QAnon took hold and the President of the United States was advising people to inject disinfectant into our veins. Since then the relevance of conspiracy theories has become more important. This was recorded live in 2016 at the Killscreen Festival. When I moved to California from New York a couple years ago, I’ll ne…

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The Stanley Parable's Davey Wreden on breaking the fourth wall 21:07

5+ y ago21:07

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When people ask what it means to make a game, they typically point to a standard set of devices: points, scores, levels, and so on. It’s rare that story makes the list. And yet, gamemaker Davey Wreden was able to move the medium to new heights with a deep exploration of story in his breakout freshman title The Stanley Parable, a tale of an office w…

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MoMA's Paola Antonelli on thinking of games as design objects 13:10

5+ y ago13:10

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Well, we know what videogames are, but what does it mean to be a videogame designer? I posed this question to Paola Antonelli, a force in the world of modern art. She is currently the Senior Curator of the Department of Architecture & Design as well as the Director of R&D at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. What I love about Paola …

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When Games Become Casinos: The Gamblification of Everything 31:20

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Silicon Valley in a Sand Trap with Sam Ghantous 25:39

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Exploring the material culture of games with metalwork, jewelry, and a little bit of horror 48:24

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How to design political games with a broken heart 53:37

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Sam and Andy Rolfes put the life in livesteam 33:40

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Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley creates game worlds from autonomous archives 20:08

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Rachel Rossin creates entropy from infinity 15:16

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Salome Asega on cultivating the ecosystem of art and technology 31:02

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Gayatri Kodikal excavates the ruins of history, time, and play 32:17

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Yasmin Elayat believes art drives innovation 32:11

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Nicole He on talking to computers 31:04

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Monument Valley's Lea Schönfelder on designing within constraints 18:41

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Videogames, conspiracy theories and the American imagination 17:54

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The Stanley Parable's Davey Wreden on breaking the fourth wall 21:07

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MoMA's Paola Antonelli on thinking of games as design objects 13:10