Gioncarlo Valentine on curating the “visual narrators” of podcast Being Seen
As series two launches with guests including Lena Waithe and Drag Race’s Shangela, we speak to the co-curator about his work with Texas Isaiah to tell its stories through photography.
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Being Seen is podcast exploring the role of culture in how we are seen, and how we see ourselves, focusing on the gay and queer Black male experience. Produced by New York-based creative agency Harley & Co with activist and author Darnell Moore, in partnership with ViiV Healthcare, the series features conversations with artists, writers, activists, entertainers and community leaders around themes contributing to HIV stigma, such as mental health, sports and fatherhood, looking at representation and its impact. Now, after winning many fans and a Clio Award, it’s returning for season two with guests including Lena Waithe and Drag Race’s Shangela. Accompanying each episode is a set of photographs, shot by
Art podcasts in tune with the times
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Lean back into an audial world of art history and art futures with our pick of inspiring culture and art podcasts. From the personal anecdotes and witty repartee of art advocate Russell Tovey’s Talk Art, to the mysterious collision of photography in Carnegie Museum of Art’s Mirror With a Memory, learn as as you listen, and step further into the frame.
Mirror With a Memory
Hosted by American artist Martine Syms, who featured in last year’s Uncanny Valley exhibition at San Francisco’s De Young Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art’s Mirror with a Memory podcast interrogates the meeting point between photography, surveillance, and artificial intelligence. The six-episode series features notable guests including artists Sondra Perry and Lynn Hershman Leeson, author and professor Simone Browne and Forensic Architecture f