mprove insights

This collection of talks and conversations on culture and science should provide insights that are otherwise lost in the vastness of the world wide web. There is no specific order, but lots of implicit references among the ideas.
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-Matthias mprove

Talks in English

11 minutes
Fiona Shaw talks about Nothing
Rubin Museum of Art 2011

Let's Walk with Simon Critchley and Fiona Shaw (45' 2017)

Fiona Shaw at Oxford Union, 2019 (60 minutes)
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot /part 1
–
à propos: Nahre Sol on Melodies in Everyday Speech
31 minutes
Wim Wenders: Painter, Filmmaker, Photographer
Louisiana Channel 2014

ChronoMedia on Wenders
75 minutes
Brian Eno: What is Art actually for?
AA School of Architecture 2016

dark_shark
Brian Eno and Danny Hillis: White on White (3 minutes)
Brian Eno 2018 on generative art (77 minutes) Peel Lecture – Brian Eno, 2015 (68 minutes)
23 minutes
Panel with Brian Ferren, Alan Kay, Danny Hillis on Storytelling at TED7, 1997
47 minutes
Kurt Vonnegut^† at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 2004

The Shape of All Stories
44 minutes
Lawrence Lessig: The Internet’s Coming Silent Spring
at USENIX 2002

lessig lessig.org

FollowUp: How copyright filters lead to wage-theft
37 minutes
Kirby Ferguson: Everything is a Remix Remastered, 2015
remixeverything
72 minutes
Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence?, 2025
blaiseaguera.bsky.social

à propos: MetaCreation Fellows
5 minutes
Margaret Hamilton, NASA’s first software engineer
MAKERS 2017

A similar portrait by the Computer History Museum (8 minues) – full 3hrs
Margaret Hamilton at ICSE 2018 (64 minutes)
Robert Wills: Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer (80 minutes)
48+41 minutes
Capt. Grace Hopper^† on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People, 1982 | part 2
ChronoLink: National Secirity Operation Center
44 minutes
Stu Card on the psychology of HCI, GOMS, Fitts’ Law, Xerox PARC, innovation, 2018
77 minutes
Adele Goldberg & Dan Ingalls on SmallTalk and the innovatioon culture at Xerox PARC’s Learners Research Group, 2022

Xerox Alto and Smalltalk
105 minutes
Neil Postman: Informing ourselves to death, 1993
(hosted by Alan Kay and Don Norman in the audience!)
39 minutes
John Oliver on the rigor of laughter in these crazy political times
The Philadelphia Citizen -Ideas We Should Steal- Festival, 2020

Last Week Tonight | cf. Vint Cerf on March-20, 2020
44 minutes
Andri Magnason: May you live in interesting times
Bucerius Zukunftscamp 2014

On Time and Water, 2021

andrimagnason.bsky.social
45 minutes
Emily Maitlis: Boiling Frog – why we have to stop normalising the absurd in journalism
MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International TV Festival, 2022

The News Agents /via Annette Dittert
32 minutes
The Rachel Maddow Show [9PM] 2/28/2025 –– the day USA switched sides
Rachel Maddow on MSNBC
Rachel on BlueSky
59 minutes
Hermann Maurer: Technological Dreams & Nightmares – An Outlook To The (Near) Future
Shaping Interactive Knowledge for the 21st Century, Lübeck 2005

hamaurer
57 minutes
Sandi Toksvig: Eve's Byte of the Apple
Darwin College Lecture Series 2025
Alan Turing Lecture 2025 by Sandi Toksvig
50 minutes
Stephen Fry: Social Media and AI: A means to an end or a means to the end?
Digital Futures Institute, King‘s Collage London 2024
ChronoMedia on Stephen Fry
38 minutes
Kate Crawford: Rematerializing AI; CHI 2024 keynote

Anatomy of AI, 2020
4 minutes
Hans Rosling^†: 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes

More Hans Rosling at TED
45 minutes
Carolyn Steel: How to Feed Cities

ChronoLink to London 1540
45 minutes
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal on Reboot’ing
Raum Schiff Erde 2010

mygdal
2 minutes
Steve Jobs^†: Secrets of Life 1994
68 minutes
Christopher Alexander^†: Patterns in Architecture at OOPSLA 1996

Elements of Style
Christopher Alexander – Life in Buildings, interview 2008
62 minutes
Bill Verplank’s keynote at interaction 11, 2011

Bill Verplank Sketching Metaphors 2008 /photo set
70 minutes
Alan Kay: Rethinking CS Education, 2015

Alan Kay Media Centrer
70 minutes
Clifford Stoll at Enterprise Solutions Summit, 1999

Cliff Stoll: The Call to Learn, TEDglobal 2008

University of Buffalos Bell Tower Cliff Stoll and the KGB
50 minutes
Richard Feynman^†
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, BBC 1981
7 minutes
Ivan Sutherland’s closing remarks at Hyperkult XX, 2011

The Art of Engineering | Leadership | Fun
50 minutes
Bill Buxton: On Being Human in a Digital Age; ACM CHI 2008

Chronoscope Florence
53 minutes
Barbara Hannigan interviewed by Sarah Willis: Performing and Music Communication, 2013

Masterclass with Barbara Hannigan
(90 minutes conversation), 17-May-2021

HanniganBarbara More Hannigan videos
sarahwillis Sarah´s Horn Hangouts
3 minutes
Judith and Tineke Steenbrink on Truth in Baroque Music, 2018

ChronoMedia with Holland Baroque
60 minutes
John Neumeier:
Moving People – Dance As A Living Shape Of Emotion
2015 Kyoto Prize Commemorative Lecture by the Laureate in Arts and Philosophy John Neumeier, director of the Hamburg Ballet:
sentiments on the philosophy of ballet start at minute 35

Neumeier Dances
John R. Johnson’s photos of John Neumeier Ballets

And more good stuff_

Vorträge auf Deutsch

1h 42

Joseph Weizenbaum^† Social and political impact of the long term history of computing
MEDICHI Klagenfurt 2007

50 Minuten

Piet Vroon^† Drei Hirne im Kopf 1993
Ein Radio-Feature von Mechthild Müser

Piet Vroon legacy on youtube

5 Minuten (77 Minuten)

Peter Kruse^† Wie reagieren Menschen auf wachsende Komplexität? 2008
Aus Peter Kruse – Führung (22 Segmente, 77 Minuten)

re:publica 2010 | Zukunft der Führung – Kompetent, kollektiv oder katastrophal? /2013 ~~thematic follow’up /2024

56 Minuten Jörg Pflüger, rot-karriertes Hemd, graue Haare, greuer Bart

Jörg Pflüger, rot-karriertes Hemd, graue Haare, greuer Bart

Jörg Pflüger: Alles ist möglich
Hyperkult, Lüneburg 2011

/via HyperKult HyperArchive

/cf. Walter Lewin: Any measurement that you make without any knowledge on its uncertainty is completeley meaningless.

92 Minuten

Expertise unter Druck –– Symposium mit Christian Drosten, Alena Buyx und Carsten Brosda
Hamburg 2024
Es geht um Wissenschaft, Wissenschaftskommunikation und Politik & Gesellschaft (nach der Covid-Krise; aber eben nur exemplarisch.)

Wim Wenders

Wim Wenders – Wie soll man Leben? Hotel Matze 2023 | 2. Kapitel
ChronoLink zum Keyhole Klub (Paris – Texas)

Von einem der auszog – Wim Wenders frühe Jahre (2007)
ArtTalk mit Wim Wenders (Podcast, 2012): ChronoLink

Verena Altenberger

Verena Altenberger, arte 2023
über Klima, Schauspiel, #metoo, MedienKonsum, Demokratie

DIALOG mit Verena Altenberger: Theater, Film & die Wirklichkeit – Perspektiven über den Bühnenrand

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