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A mindful treasure list of conversations and talks about culture and science /since Apr 2020
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 - 39 minutes

Robert Wilsons on stillness, time and space, 2025
More infospots for Robert Wilson - 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 - 32 minutes

Dana Meadows: Visions –– Down to Earth
Sustainability Summit 1993
Dana Maedows lectures 1977 and 1999 - 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_
- Dana Meadows on System Dynamics and Sustainable Systems
- Thomas Vander Wal (2024): The Fog of Complexity
- Mark Federman on TikTok
Vorträge auf Deutsch
1h 42
Joseph Weizenbaum† Social and political impact of the long term history of computing
MEDICHI Klagenfurt 2007
Joseph Weizenbaum† Social and political impact of the long term history of computingMEDICHI Klagenfurt 2007
50 Minuten 
Piet Vroon† Drei Hirne im Kopf 1993
Ein Radio-Feature von Mechthild Müser
Piet Vroon legacy on youtube

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

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: Alles ist möglich
Hyperkult, Lüneburg 2011
/via HyperKult HyperArchive
/cf. Walter Lewin:

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.)

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.)
88
Minuten
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

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
25
Minuten
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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Verena Altenberger, arte 2023
über Klima, Schauspiel, #metoo, MedienKonsum, Demokratie
DIALOG mit Verena Altenberger: Theater, Film & die Wirklichkeit – Perspektiven über den Bühnenrand
insta
Und sonst so?
- Was darf Satire? Sarah Bosetti, Dieter Nuhr, Anna Dushime, Christian Ehring, Anny Hartmann, Florian Schroeder und Harald Martenstein. Gastgeber war rbb radioeins-Moderator Marco Seiffert /via sarahbosetti
- Probleme mit den Öffentlich-Rechtlichen, Jürgen Liminski 2016
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