Art Apps and Capitalism , with SpekWork Studio and Tough Guy Mountain
#WeMakeMedia
a podcast about how the culture we produce shapes media and how that goes both ways.
#WeMakeMedia Season 1: making art in the age of the internet
Episode 7
In this episode, I talk with Jonathan Carroll and Cat Bluemke of SpekWork Studio along with their Tough Guy Mountain performance collective member Iain Soder. We talk about how and why to make apps for art going audiences, how precarious employment isn’t just for artists anymore and how capitalism killed the brand-potential of Art.
SpekWork - spek.work/
Tough Guy Mountain - toughguymountain.com/
SpekWork on Instagram - @spekwork
Tough Guy Mountain on Instagram - @toughguymountain
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SpekWork is a studio exploring new political narratives through game design. SpekWork is a collaborative effort of Cat Bluemke, Ben McCarthy, and Jonathan Carroll, post-secondary instructors teaching from the intersections of art, labour, and emerging technologies. SpekWork develops games as immersive critical commentary, taking fundamental research in perception to be the foundation of emergent ideology. Their work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as at venues such as Kunsternes Hus (Norway), the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago).
Tough Guy Mountain is a Toronto-based art collective making interactive performance art about unpaid internships. Working together since 2012, they have created video games, musical theatre, and gallery exhibits in which audiences explore a fantasy world of corporate serfdom. The collective has exhibited their work and performed across Canada and the United States.
They can be contacted at toughguymountain (at) gmail.com
Collaborators and contributors
Chris Walker
Carmen Winther
Claire Wright
Lido Pimienta
Stacie Ant
Mohammad Rezaei
Katie Switzer
Franco Arcieri
Theresa Hopkins
Devin O’Brien
Jean-Luc Lindsay
Maddy Matthews
Michelle Cieloszczyk
Joy Xiang
Halloway Jones
Thomas Kim
Iain Soder
Jonathan Carroll
Cat Bluemke
Sam Roberts
Cale Weir
Atleigh Homma
Jessica Brown
William Kasurak
Liz Johnston
Alisson Escobar
Inez Genereux
Sabine Spare
Chloe Sullivan
Ben McCarthy
Sophia Katz
Rory MacLellan
Show notes:
I have failed to complete my show notes mission for this episode :( Will complete them once vortex in time opens up providing me the time to do so! Apologies !