The Podcast School

Workshops
UnionDocs, 2015-2018

Between 2014 and 2019, I initiated and organized a series of seminars with, and for, media artists (including the groundbreaking popular course “The Podcast School”, and the interdisciplinary program “Speculations in the Archives”). Moving away from the traditional model of transferring knowledge, I conceived each workshop as a theme-based curriculum with lectures by practitioners, and work-in-progress presentations by “students”. My primary goal was to offer intimate spaces that foster non-disciplinary conversations about art in the making while providing educational and artistic development resources for artists at all stages of their careers.

2018 The Podcast School
Lead instructor: Mitra Kaboli

2018 The Podcast School (3-Day Workshop)
Lead instructor: Megan Tan

2017 The podcast school
Lead Instructor: Sam Greenspan

2017 The Podcast School (3-Day Workshop)
Lead Instructor: me

2016 The Podcast School
Lead Instructor: Rose Eveleth (Host/Producer, Flash Forward)

Guest Speakers:
Andrea Silenzi (Senior Producer, The Gist)
Brittany Luse (host of Sampler, co-host of For Colored Nerds )
Samita Sinha (CIPHER, bewilderment and other queer lions )
Sean Cole ( Producer, This American Life & Radiolab)
Jonathan Mitchell ( Producer, The Truth & Radiolab)
Megan Tan (Founder/Host/Producer, Millennial)
Caitlin Thompson (Director of Content, Acast AB)
Nicholas Quah (Writer/Publisher of Hot Pod)

2016 The Podcast School (3-Day Workshop)
Lead Instructor: Sruthi Pinnamaneni ( Producer Reply All)

Guest Speakers:
Benjamen Walker ( Producer/Host The Theory of Everything)
Megan Tan (Founder/Host/Producer, Millennial)
Jonathan Mitchell ( Producer, The Truth & Radiolab)
Sean Rameswaram (Creator of sideshow)
Nazanin Rafsanjani (Creative Director, Gimlet Media)

2015 The Podcast School
Lead Instructor: Tina Antolini (Storyteller and Radio Producer, State of the Re:Union)

Guest Speakers:
Anna Sale (Death, Sex, & Money)
Al Letson (State of the Re:Union)
Samita Sinha (CIPHER, bewilderment and other queer lions )
Sean Cole ( Producer, This American Life & Radiolab)
Jonathan Mitchell ( Producer, The Truth & Radiolab)
Andrea Silenzi (Senior Producer, The Gist)
Caitlin Prest (The Heart, Life of the Law)
Erik Diehn (Director of Cross-Platform Strategy, Bloomberg, LP)

2014 Make Your Own Radio
An Intensive Seminar Dedicated to Podcasting
Lead Instructor: Benjamen Walker ( Producer/Host The Theory of Everything)

Guest Speakers:
Jake Shapiro (Chief Executive Officer, PRX)
Nick van der Kolk (Host and Creator of Love + Radio)
Samita Sinha (CIPHER, bewilderment and other queer lions )
Jonathan Goldstein (Host and Producer of Wiretap)
Joe Richman ( Founder/Producer, Radio Diaries)
Jonathan Mitchell ( Producer, The Truth & Radiolab)
Roman Mars (Creator/Producer 99% Invisible)
Anna Sale (Host and Managing Editor, Death, Sex, & Money)
Liz Berg (Assistant General Manager at WFMU)