The Artificial and the Real: a conversation with Nora Khan

In this episode FQT associate director and podcast host Che Gossett speaks with critic, essayist, curator, and professor Nora Khan.  Nora Khan recently served as the Arts Council Professor at UCLA in Design Media Arts. Her writing on philosophy of artificial intelligence and emergent technologies is referenced heavily across disciplinary formations in the humanities and the arts. Her books include AI Art and the Stakes for Art Criticism (2025), Seeing, Naming, Knowing (2019) and Fear Indexing the X-Files (2017), with Steven Warwick. She is a member of the Curatorial Ensemble of the 2026 edition of Counterpublic, one of the nation's largest public civic exhibitions, focused next on 'Near Futures', and she also curated Manual Override at The Shed (2020). Khan discusses art and technology, AI, her craft as a writer and curator, and her pedagogy. Music Credit:  "One Fateful Night" from the Earthbound soundtrack