Moonshot Radio [S1:E1] Digital Corporeality - Jo Ho: Avatars, AI Art & Our Bodies Online

What happens to our sense of self when our bodies spill into screens, avatars and AI-generated worlds?In this episode of Moonshot Radio, host Linda Du speaks with interactive media artist Jo Ho about digital corporeality, the messy, material, and very physical reality behind our supposedly “immaterial” technologies.Together they explore:Why our phones, headsets and screens aren’t weightless at all, and how Jo’s installations expose the wires, circuits and “forgotten materiality” behind our digital lives.Avatars, gaming and VRChat: how queer communities use digital bodies to explore identity, safety and freedom beyond the limits of the physical world.AI as both collaborator and threat in art—what’s really at stake with scraped datasets, authorship, and the difference between art and craft in an age of generative images.Relationships with chatbots and robots, the limits of haptics, and why human touch, mistakes and awkwardness still matter.A manifesto eaten by an LLM: Jo’s work on how language gets flattened, sanitized and emptied of emotion by automated systems.NFTs, value, and speculative futures for blockchain beyond pure hype and flipping JPEGs.If you’re curious about where the body ends and the machine begins, this one’s for you.