Staying, Making, Connecting: The 2025 creative playbook

In this podcast you will learn how media artists stay with uncertainty, make deliberate choices with technology, and build work through collaboration—with people, place, ecology, and time.This is a 2025 compilation episode, bringing together the advice I ask for at the end of every conversation on Creating New Spaces. Across the year, artists returned to a few shared concerns: how to keep going when meaning arrives slowly, how to test and refine work without being led by the tools, and how installation practice is shaped by teams, trust, and the systems around us.Listen to this podcast to learn about:How to stay with the work when it’s unclear, slow, or shiftingHow to make with machines through testing, revision, and refinementHow media work becomes shared — through collaboration, community, and ecologyGuests featured Johan F Karlsson, Ariana Gerstein, Monteith Mccollum, Matt Warren, Rita Eperjesi, Georgie Friedman, Matthew Ragan, Troy Merritt, Darryl Rogers, Alex Moss, Maggie Jeffries, and Keith Armstrong Chapters(00:00:00) Intro: staying, making, connecting(00:00:52) Staying with the work: pace, patience, resilience (Johan, Ariana, Matt, Rita)(00:05:51) Making with machines: testing, tools, refinement (Georgie Friedman, Matthew, Troy)(00:09:34) Making with others: teams, shared practice, impact (Darryl Rogers, Alex and Maggie, Keith)(00:14:17) ClosingLinks from the podcastGuestsJohan F Karlsson— websiteAriana Gerstein — websiteMatt Warren— websiteRita Eperjesi — websiteGeorgie Friedman — websiteMatthew Ragan — websiteTroy Merritt / Soma Lumia — websiteDarryl Rogers — websiteAlex Moss — websiteMaggie Jeffries — websiteKeith Armstrong — websiteProjects and organisations mentionedThe Weather at Midnight Moonah Arts CentreDissolution Lacuna