First released: 19 Feb 2023 | To join New Models, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com

As DIS returns to Germany for the first time since members Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, and David Toro curated 2016’s hotly contested Berlin Biennale 9, Boyle joins New Models to talk about the generation-defining project’s trajectory since its inception in the late-’00s, its recent film installation Everything But The World (on view through Feb 26 at the Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin), and its future vision. Along the way we discuss: subculture, pop culture, mass media, digital rot, and Gens X, Y, Z, and A.

For more: dis.art
@dis on IG & Twitter
dismagazine.com (still partially accessible!)

READ: https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/dis-collective-is-back-in-berlin-with-everything-but-the-world (text: Carly / photos: Lil Internet)

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Unlocked | 4-EVER-DIS w/ Lauren Boyle (NM59)

First released: 27 Feb 2023 | To join New Models & receive our full stream in real time, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com

This episode is nominally about the state of style but ultimately is about the changing media paradigm that underpins how we signal through sartorial codes in 2023. New York-based writer Olivia Kan-Sperling is our guest. She is an assistant editor and regular contributor to The Paris Review and her work has appeared in publications such as Interview, Praxis, Heavy Traffic, and Cabinet. Last year she published a book of Kendall Jenner x Lil Peep fanfic titled Island Time (Expat Press, 2022), an excerpt of which she shares here. The conversation is NYC-centric but, more so, generationally specific, pushing us to shift our viewpoint to unfamiliar angles.

For more: https://oliviaks.page/ 
IG @dianadiagram & Tw @diamonddustpaw
lucky-jewel.com

Music for this ep: Cocteau Twins, "Know Who You Are at Every Age"

Unlocked | Code Couture w/ writer Olivia Kan-Sperling (NM60)

First released: 14 Mar 2023 | To join New Models & receive full stream in real time, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com

In which Carly & Julian make their first visit to Dubai and return with a new world module installed on their mental hard drives. 

Many thanks to Shumon Basar and Art Dubai’s Global Art Forum 16 “Predicting the Present” for making this trip possible. 

Addt'l reading: Shumon Basar, “The Magic Kingdom: How Not to Think about Dubai” (Bidoun, 2007) https://www.bidoun.org/articles/the-magic-kingdom

Unlocked | NM Dispatch: Dubai Diaries 2023 by Carly & Lil Internet

First released: 08 Apr 2023 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com

Adapting climate scholar Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2021, Verso) for the silver screen, Daniel Goldhaber has transformed Malm’s non-fiction manifesto into “one of the most original American thrillers in years" (Roger Ebert). As it sees its US theatrical release this week, Daniel joins NM to speak about the film, the state of indie filmmaking, and the terms of politically engaged creative production in our over-mediatized, performatively politicized age.

For more: https://neonrated.com/films/how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline

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Unlocked | How to Blow Up a Pipeline w/ Daniel Goldhaber (NM62)

The first and only feature from famed music video director Hype Williams (Missy Elliot, “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly),” 1997; The Notorious B.I.G., “Mo Money Mo Problems,” 1997; TLC, “No Scrubs,” 1999), Belly is a ‘90s crime drama set in NYC starring Nas, DMX, Taral Hicks, Method Man, and T-Boz with cameos by Sean Paul, Method Man and others. 

Upon its release, the movie was widely panned and, due to its negative, violent depictions of young black men, the Magic Johnson Theater chain even refused to screen it. But 25 years later, Belly stands as a resonant distillation of its time, both stylistically and sociologically. 

New Models chose to screen Belly for the monthly NM x Trust Kino night in Berlin last week. And for this event Lil Internet, a video director himself (Beyoncé, “No Angel,” 2013; Diplo, “Express Yourself,” 2012; Iggy Azalea, “Mo Bounce,” 2017) put together some contextualizing thoughts on Belly, which he read IRL before the screening. He's adapted his notes for this NM Short.   

For more:
@lilinternet https://soundcloud.com/lilinternet/dmx-prayer-monument-ambient?

Unlocked | NM Short: Lil Internet's Notes on "Belly" (1998, dir. Hype Williams)

First released: 2 May 2023 | To join New Models, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com

Few, if any, are more conversant in AI’s impact on creative production than HOLLY HERNDON and MAT DRYHURST. In part this is because the artist-musicians (and hosts of the Interdependence podcast) have also become, out of necessity, technologists. And perhaps it’s due to their DIY drive to not just comment on but actually build the tools and protocols artists need to more effectively navigate the 21st century that they are optimistic about it. In a conversation ranging from new baselines for Art to the future terms of IP and the horizons of identity and ownership, Mat and Holly share frameworks and neologisms unlocking a fresh framework for thinking about the AI-enhanced culture to come.

For more:
Tw: @matdryhurst & @hollyherndon
https://patreon.com/interdependence
https://spawning.ai

Unlocked | Infinite Drake w/ Mat Dryhurst & Holly Herndon (NM64)

First released: 23 Jun 2023 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com

NYC has always been a scene superconductor, replete with an infinite supply of ambitious young bodies and a world class media machine to document it all. But over the past few years, a new strain of #downtown has emerged that incessantly flickers between the physical and online realms. On this episode, NM is joined by three denizens of this New York sphere — novelist and co-founder of Forever Magazine, Madeline Cash; artist chloé waifmaterial; and full stack engineer slash man-about-town David Yoakum — to recap a cluster of events that transpired during Praxis Week, including the premier of Angelicism’s Film01, a reading at the new VC-backed Lower East Side event space Sovereign House, and the sudden onset of a climate event that amplified it all.

For more:
@davidy____
waifmaterial.com & @waifmaterial
madelinecash.com & @madelinecash


Related writing from NM sphere:
- Madeline Cash reviews Angelicism’s Film01 for Spike Art Magazine
- Paige K. Bradley reviews Angelicism’s Film01 for Artforum

Unlocked | NM Special Report: NY Scene Update w/ Madeline Cash, chloé waifmaterial, David Yoakum

First released: 25 Aug 2023 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com

Three members of the Collapsology / Crude Futures group — Richard Hames (co-author of The Rise of Ecofascism, Polity, 2022), Washington-state based writer Beau-Caprice Vetch, and UK-based producer/writer/DJ Jake Colvin (NKC) — discuss the idea of collapse, its historical role in consolidating power, its geopolitical vs. biopolitical registers, its relationship to spirituality, and frameworks for approaching adaptation to the worlds revealed in its wake.

The occasion for this conversation is the publication of a zine and card game that the Crude Futures group — which started in the New Models Discord server and also includes members Mina Miller, Jack Tarpey, phm, Matīss Groskaufmanis, Jon Benjamin Talleräs, Cat MacGregor, T.M. Wilson, and Marcelino Llano — created over the past two years and released this July.

Printing of the zine and card game was made possible through proceeds from the NM Codex Y2K20, and initial proceeds from the Crude Futures sales will go toward production of whatever NM-sphere initiative emerges next. The zine and card game are available at https://shop.newmodels.io as well as select bookshops in London and Berlin.

For updates on the Crude Futures project, follow https://crudefutures.substack.com and IG: @crudefutures

See also: NM 41 | Eco-Tomorrow w/ Sam Moore https://soundcloud.com/newmodels/nm-pod-41-eco-tomorrow-w-sam-moore?

Unlocked | Crude Futures Spotlight w/ Richard Hames, Beau-Caprice Vetch & Jake Colvin (NM69)

First released: 31 Aug 2023 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com

On Sunday (27 Aug 2023), climate activists blocked the road to Burning Man, demanding that the festival—which was founded on principles of decommodification, radical self-reliance, and civic responsibility—ban single-use plastics and private jets. While the protest delayed a relatively small amount of physical traffic for less than an hour, it seized  swathes of the online space for days given the action's adjacency to so many memetic themes, incl.: #climate, #collapse, #decarbonization, #privilege, #indigenous (land), #police and ofc the punching bag that is #burningman. 

Much of the initial drama played out on the Instagram and X accounts of gonzo journalist Michelle Lhooq (Rave New World) who broke the story while on assignment for The Guardian. On Monday, Michelle joined New Models from Reno to discuss what she witnessed as well as the changing nature of activism’s stage both online and off. 

For more: IG: @michellelhooq X: @MichelleLhooq
https://ravenewworld.substack.com
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/28/burning-man-protest-climate-change-environment

Unlocked | NM Special Report: Burning Man Blockade w/ Michelle Lhooq

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Jeffrey Mosher welcomes back Jason Cords, Executive Manager, Shaheen Chevrolet, Shaheen Cadillac, Lansing, MI

Sponsored recent Mobility & Talent Luncheon of MBN Speakers Series, thanks!

Two days before that, Shaheen was busy with the 5TH ANNUAL SHAHEEN CHEVROLET CAR SHOW, tell us about that?
(Corvettes, Sparrow Children's Center)

Your website states you're #1 in the nation for CarBravo Sales,... what does that mean?

Pre-owned vehicle values have been up over the last few years, I understand you have instant cash offers?

The Elephant in the room, the UAW Big3 talks, how does that impact dealerships like Shaheen?

Are there any new models Shaheen, or your customers - are anticipating for the 2024 model year? 

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Michigan Business Beat | Jason Cords, Shaheen Chevrolet, Shaheen Cadillac, News and Website Updates

Released to subscribers: 17 Apr 2023 | For full episode, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com

National Art Critic for artnet News and the author, most recently, of Art in the After-Culture (Haymarket, 2022), Ben Davis speaks to New Models about his recent essay “How We Ended Up in the Era of ‘Quantitative Aesthetics,’ Where Data Points Dictate Taste.”

For more:
benadavis.com
twitter.com/benadavis
news.artnet.com/opinion/quantitat…esthetics-2276351
Art in the After-Culture (Haymarket, 2022)
9.5 Theses on Art and Class (Haymarket, 2013)

[episode image: Butch McCartney / dogphotographer.eth.co]

Preview | Loss of Distinction w/ art critic Ben Davis (NM63)

Released to subscribers: 25 Nov 2023 | For full episode, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com
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The Girlstack w/ theorist Alex Quicho (NM74)

A conversation with cultural theorist Alex Quicho. Building on the ideas of Tiqqun’s 1999 anti-neoliberal treatise Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, Andrea Long Chu’s Females and Bogna Konior’s work on the girl and the inhuman vis-a-vis the machinic, Quicho has developed a concept she calls the “Girlstack,” which, to borrow her words, models the “ultrasmooth, cybergothic, and angelic dimensions of the girl’s natural habitat.” Quicho talks with us about it here.

[To be clear… we’re speaking of not actual girls or the experience of lived girlhood, but a socially constructed ideation of the girl . . . girl as a vehicle for selling a product, girl as a tool for manipulating entrenched power, girl as living currency, girl as desiring machine.]

For more: https://amfq.xyz/  
Alex Quicho, “Everyone Is a Girl Online,” Wired (September 2023)
Alex Quicho, Small Gods: Perspectives on the Drone (Zer0 Books, 2021)

Preview | The Girlstack w/ theorist Alex Quicho (NM74)

This reading was first released to subscribers: 05 Feb 2024 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com“

For millennia one had measured oneself against the cycles of the seasons and the heavens, or against changing social mores and geopolitical configurations. To now be compelled to measure one’s life against the pace of machine time invited madness.”  

In this long-form essay by Seth Price, a “cultured middle aged artist from New York” attends a winter solstice party at an “open-air, tropical-Modern” island villa hosted by a man named Trader, “tanned, with a graying mane, khakis, trainers, and a billowing linen Oxford.” The real drama of this story, however, is arguably the “practice of divesting and reinvesting meaning” in our world of signs, a world whose semiotic layer is undergoing an epochal shift .. or so it seems. // This ep is part 1 of 2.

“Machine Time” by Seth Price was first published in Heavy Traffic issue 1 (2022).  We bring you this reading as part of Heavy Traffic’s New Models residency, which features essays from the magazine read aloud by their authors. Heavy Traffic issue IV is out now. See: heavytrafficmagazine.com

For a conversation with Heavy Traffic publisher, Patrick McGraw, see NM75.

Unlocked | NM x Heavy Traffic: Seth Price "Machine Time" (Part 1)

Full Ep released to subscribers: 08 Mar 2024 | To join New Models, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com

// One of the most compelling examples, so far, of media made using AI content generation is the video that artist Jon Rafman created for Kanye West’s new album with Ty Dolla $ign, "Vultures." Rather than aiming for maximum realism in these clips, Rafman leans into visual incoherence, moments where the software experiences a collapse of distinction. This, coupled with prompts that could have gone something like “gang members in balaclavas imploding like the Pruitt-Igoe housing project demolition 1971” with style tags “cult horror, VHS, America 1986, Norwegian black metal” meant the video also conveyed a sense of what we thought might be a Witch House revival. So we called up cultural savant and 2010s historian Dean Kissick to discuss. But Witch House did not remain the central thread of our conversation. Instead, all paths lead back to something more fundamental—the struggle for iconicity in a time of infinitely available content.

// For more: https://twitter.com/deankissick (X)

// NOTE: Dean will be helping New Models resident Patrick McGraw to stage a very special Heavy Traffic reading at EARTH, 29 Orchard Street, New York City, on Easter Sunday, March 31st.

Preview | NM Special Report: Ye and the Future of Content w/ Dean Kissick

Full ep released to subscribers: 10 Aug 2023 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com
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Artist Trevor Paglen speaks with New Models about systems of “influence” past and present – pointing to a transition from a world of surveillance capitalism that is potentially becoming one of PSYOPS capitalism. This conversation follows Paglen’s parallel 2023 exhibitions “Hide the Real, Show the False” at n.b.k. Berlin and “You’ve Just Been F*cked by PSYPOS” at Pace Gallery in New York. 

For more: 
Tw/X: @trevorpaglen
https://paglen.studio/
Jak Ritger, https://www.punctr.art/unlimited-hangout-the-ufo-story

Preview | Psyberspace w/ Trevor Paglen (NM68)

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