Season Finale! Join Barbara and special guest Valerie Cassel Oliver, the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, for a look back at Season 2 of "Barbara London Calling."Oleh Barbara London / Valerie Cassel Oliver

In the twelfth episode of "Barbara London Calling" 2.0, Barbara speaks with Lucy Raven, an American artist who works with the moving image, light and sound to create majestic, immersive art. At Dia Chelsea in New York, Lucy's recent solo exhibition of kinetic sculptures and a short film occupied the entirety of a former marble-cutting factory.…

In the eleventh episode of "Barbara London Calling" 2.0, Barbara speaks with Aura Satz, an inspired artist who dives deep into the history of electronic sound. Born in Spain in 1974 and now based in London, Aura works with the moving image and sonic sculptural objects as she explores the complex marriage of human and machine, and the uncertainty it…

In the tenth episode of "Barbara London Calling" 2.0, Barbara speaks with Ken Okiishi, an Iowa-born artist who comes from linguistically expressive family with roots in Hawaii and Japan. The simultaneity of those different cultures and identities help motivate Ken's interest in language as he explores image networks and media systems through art.…

In the ninth episode of "Barbara London Calling" 2.0, Barbara speaks with Ed Atkins, an English artist whose lively practice revolves around writing, the moving image and installation. Death, loss, distemper and debility have been preoccupations in Ed's work, which shows a keen interest in the emotions our digital technologies are unable to contain…

In the eighth episode of "Barbara London Calling" 2.0, Barbara speaks with visual artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda. Based in Paris and Kyoto, Ryoji works with sound in its raw state—in sine tones and noise, often in frequencies at the edge of human perceptionOleh Barbara London / Ryoji Ikeda

In the seventh episode of "Barbara London Calling" 2.0, Barbara speaks with Nalini Malani, the versatile Indian artist easily moving between the mediums of painting and video, and between the worlds of Bombay (as she still prefers to call it) and Amsterdam. Probing the past and the present, Nalini explains how theater reaches an audience rarely fou…

The sixth episode of "Barbara London Calling" 2.0 features one of today's bright, young stars: interdisciplinary artist Sondra Perry. Born in 1986 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Sondra creates insightful artwork using video, computer-based media, installation and performance. Highly respected as an innovator, Sondra uses wit and grace to investigate s…

In the fifth episode of "Barbara London Calling" 2.0, Barbara speaks with Amar Kanwar, an Indian artist whose masterful films and multimedia work explore the politics of power, violence and justice. Born in 1964 in New Delhi, where he is still based, Amar was a researcher for occupational health and safety in the coal mining belt of central India. …

In the fourth episode of "Barbara London Calling" 2.0, Barbara speaks with Australian artist Tracey Moffat. A true innovator, Tracey began her career as an experimental filmmaker; she has since shown all over the world, including at the Venice Biennale. Her unflinching artwork is a mix of childhood memories, popular culture, history, film, televisi…

In the second episode of Season 2.0, Barbara speaks with software-savvy artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen, whose immersive installations have been seen in the Venice Biennale and in the Berlin megaclub Berghain. Jakob tells Barbara about his first forays into Unreal Engine, plus the sights and sounds—and smells—he discovered in his adventurous field reco…

The third episode of Season 2.0 features a conversation with artist Lorraine O'Grady, whose monumental career was recently showcased at the Brooklyn Museum in her first-ever retrospective, “Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And.” Revisiting her trenchant performances and artwork from the past 60 years, Lorraine speaks with Barbara about changing dynamics in t…

In the season premiere of Barbara London Calling 2.0, Barbara speaks with boundary-breaking artist Auriea Harvey. An internet art pioneer, Auriea was a member of the legendary collective hell.com. She speaks with Barbara about the early days of internet art, the role of video games and augmented reality, and how NFTs combine her twin passions for d…

It's Barbara London Calling 2.0! In the trailer Season 2, curator and author Barbara London lays out her vision for another 12 conversations with artists from all over the world, each working at the forefront of technology and creativity.

Season finale! For the thirteenth episode of "Barbara London Calling"—the final episode of Season 1—Barbara changes things up. After 12 conversations with artists, for this special episode she speaks with a curator: namely, Chrissie Iles, a leading authority on contemporary art and the moving image. As the Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz curator at the Whit…

For the twelfth episode of "Barbara London Calling," Barbara speaks with Didem Pekün, a Turkish–British artist now based in Berlin. Didem's lyrical video installations interrogate ideas of identity, displacement and statelessness, as she "changes languages, changes SIM cards, changes cities" in what she calls a "perpetual effort to reach and keep m…

In the eleventh episode of "Barbara London Calling," Barbara speaks with Brooklyn-based artist Marina Rosenfeld. As a composer, Marina orchestrated a performance art piece called "Shear Frost Orchestra," which featured 17 women each playing an electric guitar using nothing but bottles of nail polish. Sitting in a line, the women were directed to pl…

In the tenth episode of "Barbara London Calling," Barbara speaks with artist Bani Haykal. Born in 1985 and based in Singapore, Bani straddles the world of language, art and music, as he picks apart the nuances of our technology-filled lives. His work explores the power of commonalities across different languages—but also the deeper power of incongr…

In the ninth episode of "Barbara London Calling," Barbara speaks with Brazilian artist Jonathas de Andrade. Living in Recife on the eastern coast of Brazil, Jonathas works across video and photography, with an interest in how language can render truths as well as untruths, and how that same language can liberate or marginalize its subjects.…

In the eighth episode of "Barbara London Calling," Barbara speaks with Jana Winderen, a Norwegian artist who straddles the fields of art, music and science. Her work encourages us not just to hear, but to listen, as she explores the aural dimensions of faraway landscapes. Winderen travels to the ends of the Earth, often alone, where she records nea…

In the seventh episode of "Barbara London Calling," Barbara speaks with Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, two London-based artists and collaborators with a background in installation art and the moving image. Music has always played an important role in their work, culminating in their 2014 feature film, "20,000 Days on Earth," a musical docudrama sta…

In the sixth episode of "Barbara London Calling," host Barbara London speaks with Rachel Rossin, a Brooklyn-based artist investigating the boundaries between reality, hyper-reality and the imaginary. Born in 1987, Rachel grew up in South Florida, where she lived in the shadow of hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters. This sense of anxiety—…

In the fifth episode of "Barbara London Calling," Barbara speaks with Cao Fei, a Beijing-based artist interested in how the virtual world contradicts and coincides with reality. Working across film, digital media, photography, sculpture, installation and performance, her starting point is China and how people—especially young people—navigate the ra…

In the fourth episode of "Barbara London Calling," Barbara speaks with Paul Pfeiffer, the American artist well known for utilizing sophisticated digital technologies to scrutinize the role mass media plays in shaping contemporary consciousness. Born in Honolulu, Paul now lives and works in New York, where he investigates the relationship between sp…

For the third episode of "Barbara London Calling," Barbara speaks with Hong Kong–based artist Samson Young, one of the most talented artists investigating sound as art. Samson works in a broad range of disciplines: music composition, performance, installation, sound, video, drawing, and design. His artwork is elegant yet razor-sharp, and sometimes …

For the first episode of "Barbara London Calling," host Barbara London speaks with Anri Sala, an internationally acclaimed artist from Tirana, Albania. Born in 1974, Sala eloquently orchestrates sound in space, with a keen focus on the underlying politics of contemporary life. Incorporating what he calls “a distrust of language,” his multimedia ins…

In the second episode of "Barbara London Calling," Barbara speaks with Zina Saro-Wiwa, an interdisciplinary artist who works with video, photography, sculpture, sound and, sometimes, food. As an artist, Zina has said she wants to expand the meanings of African-ness and, ultimately, to decolonize the idea of self. Born in Nigeria, Zina grew up in th…

Welcome to Barbara London Calling! In the series introduction, host Barbara London explains why she created the series and how she sees media art as the furthest reaching, most innovative art of our time. Stay tuned for 12 episodes featuring new conversations with artists from all over the world.Oleh Prologue