Staying, Making, Connecting: The 2025 creative playbook

About this episode

This episode explores how media artists navigate uncertainty and collaboration in their creative processes.

In this podcast you will learn how media artists stay with uncertainty, make deliberate choices with technology, and build work through collaboration—with people, place, ecology, and time. This is a 2025 compilation episode, bringing together the advice I ask for at the end of every conversation on Creating New Spaces. Across the year, artists returned to a few shared concerns: how to keep going when meaning arrives slowly, how to test and refine work without being led by the tools, and how installation practice is shaped by teams, trust, and the systems around us. Listen to this podcast to learn about: How to stay with the work when it’s unclear, slow, or shifting How to make with machines through testing, revision, and refinement How media work becomes shared — through collaboration, community, and ecology Guests featured Johan F Karlsson, Ariana Gerstein, Monteith Mccollum, Matt Warren, Rita Eperjesi, Georgie Friedman, Matthew Ragan, Troy Merritt, Darryl Rogers, Alex Moss, Maggie Jeffries, and Keith Armstrong Chapters (00:00:00) Intro: staying, making, connecting (00:00:52) Staying with the work: pace, patience, resilience (Johan, Ariana, Matt, Rita) (00:05:51) Making with…

People in this episode

Host: Robin Petterd

Guests: Johan F Karlsson, Ariana Gerstein, Monteith Mccollum, Matt Warren, Rita Eperjesi, Georgie Friedman, Matthew Ragan, Troy Merritt, Darryl Rogers, Alex Moss, Maggie Jeffries, Keith Armstrong

Topics covered

• media art
• collaboration
• technology
• installation practice
• uncertainty
• community

Keywords

• creative playbook
• artistic collaboration
• technology in art
• installation
• media artists
• uncertainty in art

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