Le Random

Le Random is building a digital generative art institution that contextualizes and elevates generative art. We achieve this in two ways. First, we are assembling a historically encompassing, chain-agnostic generative art collection. Second, we publish content that enables the generative art community to understand its past, curate its present and celebrate its future. This includes an Editorials section, our book-length Generative Art Timeline and our multimedia content here and on YouTube.This is the home of Le Random's audio content.

Le Random is a arts podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 46 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Le Random, a arts show with 46 episodes published.

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  45: AI Psychosis Summit—Macy Gettles, Quasimatt and Kevin Esherick with Peter Bauman

  Jul 31, 202657 min

  In this episode, host Peter Bauman (Le Random's editor in chief) speaks with Macy Gettles, Quasimatt and Kevin Esherick about the community around the AI Psychosis Summit that took place in Downtown NYC, April 30, 2026. They cover the origins of the community, from a memey, joke tweet to a packed Chinatown DIY community gathering. It's a scene where devs make art and artists ship products, where the point is the community rather than any individual art object. They also discuss managing AI euphoria with backlash, slop discourse and whether New York is over as Josh Kline's October article suggested. Read Kevin's Monday Editorial with us, What Was the AI Psychosis Summit?? Chapters : 00:00 What was the AI Psychosis Summit? 05:04 How AI showed up in the work 11:30 Facing the anti-AI backlash 16:58 Cottagecore, aesthetics and slop 25:08 The image in 2026. Process vs. concept 28:03 AI psychosis, defined 36:36 Founding myth: a joke tweet 38:23 The Kline essay: is New York art over? 46:50 Scene tech and the Shake app 53:07 'What's next' and where to find everyone

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  44: Figure31—Discussing and Demonstrating DEL with Peter Bauman

  May 29, 202657 min

  In this special video episode, host Peter Bauman (Le Random's editor in chief) speaks with artist Loucas Braconnier ( Figure31 ). They discuss DEL , a two-year project that began life as a terminal-based C application with a "Grim Reaper" persona before becoming a browser-native work. It consists of globular "bodies for the Ethereum network" rendered in real time as ASCII art. They go over Braconnier's path into blockchain art and his attraction to work that evolves over time, the discipline of building for longevity, and a wider conversation about how AI and new tools shift the artist's focus from technical skill toward conceptual intent. In the second half, Braconnier gives a live demo of the work and a visual walk-through, showing how its entities express network data through behaviors like twirling, meditating, or trying to escape the viewport. Monday's Editorial: Jakob Kudsk Steensen on Non-Human Pathways Chapters 📖 00:00 — Introduction: meet Loucas Braconnier (Figure31) and the work01:02 — Finding blockchain: the spark that drew him to Ethereum03:02 — Why blockchain: what it brings to art that evolves over time05:30 — Sculpture Garden & "Traveler": protocol art and the contract's inner space09:38 — How DEL relates: dialogue with and departure from his earlier work15:19 — On-chain & longevity: immutability, repairability, committing to the future18:22 — Two years of work: from a terminal "Grim Reaper" agent to the browser22:07 — Bodies for Ethereum: liveliness, behaviors, giving voice to the network25:53 — Live demo: walking through the main collection28:58 — Reading behavior: behavior modes and the 3D object behind the ASCII30:41 — Browser as space: native viewing, reproduction, and the original34:35 — The data readouts: exposing configuration, logs, and block hashes40:10 — Owner tuning: editing parameters and giving away control44:57 — Custom sites: bespoke builds over marketplace platforms51:00 — AI and making: technical skill versus conceptual intent56:02 — Closing: final reflections and what comes next

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  43: New York Frieze Week—Michael Connor, Regina Harsanyi & Karyn Nakamura with Peter Bauman

  May 12, 202647 min

  In this episode, host Peter Bauman (Le Random's editor in chief) speaks with Regina Harsanyi (Associate Curator of Media Arts at the Museum of the Moving Image), Michael Connor, Executive Director of Rhizome, and artist Karyn Nakamura about Frieze Week in New York. In particular the discussion focuses on the week's programs on May 16th, with Rhizome's 7 on 7 at New Museum, as well as MoMI's Open Worlds : An Afternoon of Digital Art Encounters. They cover an anatomy of Frieze Week itself, (art fair, satellite fairs, Whitney Biennial, and all) before zeroing in on what each guest is bringing to the table. Connor traces the sixteen-year arc of 7x7, this year organized around the theme of "Containment." Nakamura discusses her own 7x7 project with Lucas Gelfond, which probes the geometry of meaning inside language models and the possibilities of interpretability research as artistic material. Harsanyi walks through the museum programming in depth. See our "New York Digital Art Guide" Monday's Editorial this week is an essay by Bauman on the relationship between protocol art and worldbuilding: The Cerebral Samba Chapters 📖: 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:18 Frieze Week: What It Is and Why It Matters 00:07:20 The Saturday Battle Royale: 7x7 vs. MoMI 00:08:52 7x7: The Commons Residency and the "Containment" Theme 00:13:11 Karyn Nakamura: Interpretability as Artistic Material 00:16:19 MoMI x Tezos: Digital Materiality and the Fellowship 00:18:38 Edgar Fabian Frias and the Nureyka Performance 00:20:17 Travess Smalley's Pixel Rug Book and OONA 00:23:52 The Artist/Technologist Binary 00:35:20 Corporate Sponsorship and Artistic Subversion 00:38:27 The Josh Kline Essay: Real Estate and Art Quality 00:42:10 Rhea Meyers & Linda Dounia collaboration

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  42: Strange Rules and Protocol Art at the Venice Biennale—Trevor Paglen & Primavera De Filippi with Peter Bauman

  May 8, 202647 min

  In this episode, host Peter Bauman (Le Random's editor in chief) speaks with artists Trevor Paglen and Primavera De Filippi about Protocol art. The occasion is Strange Rules , the landmark group exhibition co-conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Holly Herndon, and Mat Dryhurst, running at the Palazzo Diedo in Venice for the full duration of the Biennale. The show offers the most institutionally significant framing of protocol art to date, and Paglen and De Filippi represent two of its most distinct vantages. The conversation opens with the question of how each artist situates their practice within the protocol framework. Paglen, long known as a revealer of hidden infrastructures, reflects on a career built between systems observation and systems intervention. He and on how his new work Voyager marks a turn inward, toward consciousness rather than exposure. De Filippi, a longtime Protocol art theorist and one of the few artists to self-define as a protocol artist, walks through her Protocolism Manifesto and the decade-long Plantoid project that preceded it, sharpening a key distinction: the difference between making art on top of a protocol and making the protocol itself as the creative act. Meanwhile, our Monday Editorial with Shohei Fujimoto completes our Venice Biennale coverage for the week. (More to come!) 00:04 Introduction & The Strange Rules Exhibition 01:39 Trevor Paglen's Work: Voyager and the Pivot Inward 02:49 Trevor Paglen on Protocol Art & Post-Minimal Influences 04:57 Primavera De Filippi Defines Protocol Art & the Protocolism Manifesto 08:13 Voyager Explained: AI That Hypnotizes You 10:22 Plantoid: The Self-Replicating Blockchain Sculpture 13:34 The Breadth of Protocol Art & the Venice Biennale as Platform 17:43 Why Protocol Art Is Rising: Generative AI & the Meta-Layer 20:57 Photography, Modernism & the Current AI Rupture 23:35 Capital-A Algorithm: Fear, Critique & Alternatives 26:36 Embracing the Algorithm: Open Source & Artistic Autonomy 30:05 Consciousness, Entanglement & Voyager's Six Journeys 33:41 Synthetic Life, Symbionts & Machine Qualia 39:05 Protocol Art as a Lens for Economics, Politics & Technology 42:34 Protocol vs. Instantiation, Copyright & Closing Thoughts

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  41: James Bridle—Questioning Machine Intelligence with Peter Bauman

  Apr 10, 202652 min

  In this podcast episode, host Peter Bauman (Le Random's editor in chief) speaks with artist and writer James Bridle about what we actually mean when we say "intelligence." They discuss whether building our most powerful technologies around such a narrow version of it is a fundamental mistake. They also unpack author Bridle's argument from Ways of Being that intelligence has always been a political construct, and that contemporary AI represents a reduction of a reduction. The conversation moves through the three effects Bridle sees AI concretely producing right now: consolidation of power, environmental destruction, and a spreading ontological crisis. They end by widening to consciousness, ecological thinking, and what a genuinely non-human intelligence might actually require. It is one of the more skeptical conversations Le Random has hosted on AI, and one of the most clarifying. Enjoy! Monday's Editorial: Keiken on the Worldbuilding Lens Chapters 📖: 00:00:04 — Introduction: What Is Intelligence? 00:02:01 — The Human Bias in How We Define Intelligence 00:08:03 — Boosterism vs. Doomerism: Bridle's Dual Critique 00:15:10 — Can Agentic AI Produce Ecological Intelligence? 00:20:07 — Citizens' Assemblies and the Power of Diversity 00:24:37 — Symbionts: A Third Way to Engage with AI? 00:29:55 — AI Coding, Relationships, and What Actually Changes Us 00:36:16— Three Real Effects of AI: Power, Environment, Uncertainty 00:41:00 — Art, Ethics, and the Glitch Residency 00:45:10 — Consciousness Beyond Language: Mountains, Machines, and Standing Waves

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