John Shirley is a cyberpunk pioneer (along with William Gibson, Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling). He tells of his life and how he started writing: basically, start writing your dreams! Dreams can go anywhere! Dreams became short stories, and some were expanded into full-length novels. Duck-and-cover, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the idea of nuclear […]

Artist Carolee Schneemann’s evocative performance and body art began in the early 1960s and remains iconic and relevant to this day. We visited Carolee in upstate New York at her family’s “historic” digs where she lives with her cats and continues her work. Carolee Schneemann is a way-ahead-of-her-time artist featured in the RE/Search book “ANGRY […]

Wolf Eyes was in town and visited the RE/Search office to talk to us about their eclectic and long-standing musical collaboration. Alt-Jazz, improvisation, and the necessity for spontaneity are some of their modus operandi. Subscribe to the RE/Search Conversations podcast feed: http://simplecast.fm/podcasts/1581/rss. Also available on iTunes or your favorite podcast app. Download this episode.

All the way from Hamburg, the experimental documentary filmmaker Peter Sempel stops in for this episode to discuss his process of filmmaking, the longevity of punk, how Jonas Mekas helped kickstart Sempel’s career, his newest project, and favorite animals. Originally recorded as a TV episode of The Counterculture Hour. Subscribe to the RE/Search Conversations podcast […]