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Ep 42: Taryn Southern Lives in the Future

Micah Redding, Taryn Southern

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Posted on 2018-07-12 09:00:00

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Taryn Southern teaches AI to sing, releases the first song on the blockchain, and talks about how to use VR for good.

Bio:

Taryn Southern is a digital artist and filmmaker. She is co-directing a documentary about the brain, and recently unveiled her AI/human collaborative album, I AM AI. As a YouTuber, she has produced more than 1000 videos and garnered more than half a billion views online.

Topics:

• Taryn's personal story:
  • Growing up in Kansas
  • Studying Ayahuasca among rainforest communities in Peru
  • Working as an actress in LA, becoming a comedic YouTuber
• Creative pivots and losing your audience
• Hip-hop, EDM, and AI-based music
  • Tools for making music with AI: (Amper, Aiva, Watson Beat, Google Magenta)
  • Kevin Kelly on the tools to unlock future geniuses
• Creating a Song on the Blockchain
• Virtual Reality as Artform, VR for Healing
  • How to create a VR music video
  • What VR reveals about embodiment
  • Doing good, VR, and biofeedback
• Social Media & Our Story-telling Imagination
  • The movie theater as meditation
  • Why dystopias are killing us, and our deep, practical need for hopeful stories
• What does it mean to be human?
• Freezing your stem cells
• Why would you want to live forever?
• How to keep going, when 90% of things you try will fail

Links & Resources:

• Taryn's website
• Life Support | 360° VR Music Video Composed By AI
• BREAK FREE Breaks into Radio—get it here! (video)

Pull-Quotes:

“We could create literally anything—and we've chosen to create this world.” <-- tweet this

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