Experience.Computer

• Jenn de la Vega

  Experience.Computer is a slow-radio programme exploring aphantasia, creativity, and the imagination.After an unplanned pause, Experience.Computer will back in production for Season 3! If you have ideas for guests you would like to hear from in the next season, add your suggestions in the comments; or share this episode and tag them in Substack Notes. Your recommendations will help guide the conversations that follow.IN THIS INTERVIEWJay Springett leads cookbook writer and community-oriented caterer Jenn de la Vega through a series of imaginative exercises. Then they discuss:* Imagining the audience of a cookbook cooking* Scaling recipes for large events* Impact of organisation of the space of kitchen on the process of cooking* Traditional versus intuitive cooking methods* Social media's influence on food media and marketingQUOTES"I think creating food is like a song. Songs also need balance. They have melody, rhythm, tempo, and timbre.""I'm interested in how you approach scaling up dishes. The math doesn't always add up.""I have a rolling chopping block cart... I can wheel it anywhere!""I think we need a break. I think we all need a vacation from our devices."ABOUT THE GUESTJENN DE LA VEGA is a community-oriented caterer and cookbook writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Jenn has built a unique culinary practice mashing up experiential with visual art and food through residencies at TASTE Cooking, Babycastles Gallery, and Kickstarter. Her kaleidoscopic recipes appear on Food52, The Kitchn, Yummly, and Wine Enthusiast. You'll find a mash-up of her Filipinx heritage, tapas, artisanal cheese, and 90's inspired fast-food cuisine on her menus. She is most known for her Randwiches or "random sandwiches" and founding the gourmet hot dog program at Wonderville, an indie game art-cade bar in Bushwick.IN YOUR MINDHas this interview sparked any thoughts or questions about your own mind's eye, creative process, or inner experience? I'd love to hear your insights! Share your reflections in the comments below or on social media!LINKS* Jenn’s Website* Follow Jenn on Instagram* Jenn’s CookbooksSubscribe to Experience.Computer* Apple Podcasts* Spotify* PocketcastsABOUT THE SHOWIn 2022 writer and host Jay Springett discovered he had aphantasia - the inability to voluntarily create mental images in one's mind. For 36 years he thought 'picture this' was a metaphor.Experience.Computer is slow radio about high tech. An interview show exploring perception, experience and expression. The show examines how people perceive the world, and how they work with the creative tools they use to make their work with.ABOUT THE HOSTJay Springett is a strategist and writer. His work focuses on the design, administration and flourishing of worlds of all kinds He has hosted the personal essay podcast Permanently Moved since 2018, and Experience.Computer since 2023. Jay is currently working on his first book ‘The Web Was a Side Quest‘ and writes online at thejaymo.net This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit experience.computer

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• Mike Rugnetta

  Jay Springett leads writer, producer, and sound designer Mike Rugnetta through a series of imaginative exercises.Then they discuss:* The nature of imagined versus physical experiences* Carmen San Diego’s role In sparking a love for portable technology* Nostalgia and memory* Smart phones and ‘machine touch’* where the audience is when making work for the internet?* Mike’s relationship with the Yamaha FB-O1 four operator FM synthesiser.QUOTES"You just have to get used to what done enough feels like."“It's like everybody is looking at the horse that just walked into the bar, and they're all talking amongst themselves. Being like, what's the deal with this horse?"“I often feel like I am fighting with my phone to get it to do what I want it to do.”"I could have gotten a similar result and not spent hundreds and hundreds of hours learning a really particular implementation of a really particular thing."ABOUT THE GUESTMIKE RUGNETTA is Brookyn-based writer, producer, and sound designer. He is the co-creator and host of Never Post, a podcast about the internet – as well as the co-creator, co-DM and sound designer of the actual play tabletop roleplaying podcast Fun City. Previously he was the writer, researcher and host of the multiple-award winning PBS Digital series Idea Channel, and the host of Crash Courses Theater and Dramaturgy and World Mythology. His production clients have included Atlas Obscura, Adobe, Duolingo, Future of Storytelling, IBM, Longreads and more.IN YOUR MINDHas this interview sparked any thoughts or questions about your own mind's eye, creative process, or inner experience? I'd love to hear your insights! Share your reflections in the comments below or on social media!LINKS* Mike’s Website* Never Post Podcast* Fun City Podcast* Yamaha FB-O1 Documentation* Mike’s NewsletterSubscribe to Experience.Computer* Apple Podcasts* Spotify* PocketcastsABOUT THE SHOWIn 2022 writer and host Jay Springett discovered he had aphantasia - the inability to voluntarily create mental images in one's mind. For 36 years he thought 'picture this' was a metaphor.Experience.Computer is slow radio about high tech. An interview show exploring perception, experience and expression. The show examines how people perceive the world, and how they work with the creative tools they use to make their work with.ABOUT THE HOSTJay Springett is a strategist and writer. His work focuses on the design, administration and flourishing of worlds of all kinds He has hosted the 301 second long essay podcast Permanently Moved since 2018, and Experience.Computer since 2023. Jay is currently working on his first book ‘The Web Was a Side Quest‘ and writes online at thejaymo.net This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit experience.computer

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• Meghna Jayanth

  Jay Springett leads award-winning narrative designer, and writer Meghna Jayanth through a series of imaginative exercises.Then they discuss:* Imagination in narrative design* Agency and identity in video games* Digital spaces and online communities* Online harassment and its effects* Balancing plot and player freedomQUOTES“Games are a medium of agency.”"I stop playing at essentially the moment I’m about to be nuked by the other civilisation.""I think the screen does have a constant pull towards it, you have to resist.""A huge part of game narrative is defining and describing agency and imagining yourself inside the ego of the player."ABOUT THE GUESTMEGHNA JAYANTH is an award-winning narrative designer, writer and speaker. Her work is focused on subverting the capitalist-colonialist fantasies, pleasures and designs that dominate the imaginaries of video games, and rethinking protagonism. Her work includes Thirsty Suitors, 80 Days, Sable, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Boyfriend Dungeon, This War of Mine and Sunless Sea. She is currently working on All Rise, an inappropriately joyous game about climate crisis and corporate criminals.IN YOUR MINDHas this interview sparked any thoughts or questions about your own mind's eye, creative process, or inner experience? I'd love to hear your insights! Share your reflections in the comments below or on social media!LINKS* Meghna’s Website* Follow Meghna on Twitter* Thirsty Suitors* 80 Days* Boyfriend Dungeon* Read more about Meghna on WikipediaSubscribe to Experience.Computer* Apple Podcasts* Spotify* PocketcastsABOUT THE SHOWIn 2022 writer and host Jay Springett discovered he had aphantasia - the inability to voluntarily create mental images in one's mind. For 36 years he thought 'picture this' was a metaphor.Experience.Computer is slow radio about high tech. An interview show exploring perception, experience and expression. The show examines how people perceive the world, and how they work with the creative tools they use to make their work with.ABOUT THE HOSTJay Springett is a strategist and writer. His work focuses on the design, administration and flourishing of worlds of all kinds He has hosted the 301 second long essay podcast Permanently Moved since 2018, and Experience.Computer since 2023. Jay is currently working on his first book ‘The Web Was a Side Quest‘ and writes online at thejaymo.net This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit experience.computer

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• Kris Saknussemm

  Jay Springett leads multimedia artist, musician, and author Kris Saknussemm through a series of imaginative exercises. Then they discuss:* Memory and cognition* Discernment and intuition* Being around mainframe computers in the late 70’s* The transition from typewriters to computers* OscillationQUOTES“Everything wants to be remembered. Everything wants to be found.”“It's feeling for an edge, it's making radically rapid calculations of values and geometries”“If you think about rhetoric, the science of the open hand, and dialectic, the science of the closed fist, there is something surgical and geometric about the nature of discernment.”"I was a typewriting pounder. Yeah. I really, I savoured the mechanics of it."ABOUT THE GUESTKRIS SAKNUSSEMM is a multimedia artist, musician, and the author of a range of books including his latest work A Guide to Creative Writing and the Imagination published by Routledge Press. He also co-hosts the podcast Lost Xplorers with J. David Osborne.He received a B.A. with Distinction from Dartmouth, double majoring in English and Native American Studies and holds an M.A. from the University of Washington where he was the Robertson Fellow. His first novel Zanesville was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award and became a cult favourite in translation in Russia and Poland. His novel Private Midnight achieved bestseller status in France and Italy. His work The Memory Wound won First Prize in the Missouri Review Audio Play competition, and the film of his published play The Humble Assessment (which was the featured work at the Las Vegas Fringe Festival and has also been staged in Australia and Sweden) has been screened at 19 international festivals. He has been a Fellow at the MacDowell and the Black Mountain Institute, Distinguished Artist in Residence at Seattle University, Visiting Master Artist at Salem State University and California State University Dominguez Hills, and a Mellon Scholar in Residence at Rhodes University in South Africa.After living half his life outside America, he lives now in Boulder City, Nevada and is currently an Adjunct Professor at UNLV.IN YOUR MINDHas this interview sparked any thoughts or questions about your own mind's eye, creative process, or inner experience? I'd love to hear your insights! Share your reflections in the comments below or on social media!LINKS* Kris on Bandcamp* Kris on Hearnow* Kris’s books on Amazon.com* Listen to Lost Xplorers on Spotify* Read more about Kris on WikipediaSubscribe to Experience.Computer* Apple Podcasts* Spotify* PocketcastsABOUT THE SHOWIn 2022 writer and host Jay Springett discovered he had aphantasia - the inability to voluntarily create mental images in one's mind. For 36 years he thought 'picture this' was a metaphor.Experience.Computer is slow radio about high tech. An interview show exploring perception, experience and expression. The show examines how people perceive the world, and how they work with the creative tools they use to make their work with.ABOUT THE HOSTJay Springett is a strategist and writer. His work focuses on the design, administration and flourishing of worlds of all kinds He has hosted the 301 second long essay podcast Permanently Moved since 2018, and Experience.Computer since 2023. Jay is currently working on his first book ‘The Web Was a Side Quest‘ and writes online at thejaymo.net This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit experience.computer

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• Experience.Computer Season 2 | Trailer

  Welcome back to Experience.Computer! I’m your host, Jay Springett, and I’m thrilled to announce the imminent launch of Season 2. Experience.Computer is a slow radio journey into high tech, where we explore perception, experience, and expression.In 2022 writer and host Jay Springett discovered he had aphantasia - the inability to voluntarily create mental images in one's mind. For 36 years he thought 'picture this' was a metaphor.Experience.Computer is slow radio about high tech. Exploring perception, experience and expression. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit experience.computer

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