Experience.Computer: a slow radio show exploring aphantasia, creativity, and the imagination.
IN THIS INTERVIEW
Jay Springett leads multimedia artist, musician, and author Kris Saknussemm through a series of imaginative exercises.
Then they discuss:
Memory and cognition
Discernment and intuition
Being around mainframe computers in the late 70’s
The transition from typewriters to computers
Oscillation
QUOTES
“Everything wants to be remembered. Everything wants to be found”
“It's feeling for an edge, it's making radically rapid calculations of values and geometries”
“If you think about rhetoric, the science of the open hand, and dialectic, the science of the closed fist, there is something surgical and geometric about the nature of discernment”
"I was a typewriting pounder. Yeah. I really, I savoured the mechanics of it"
ABOUT THE GUEST
KRIS SAKNUSSEMM is a multimedia artist, musician, and the author of a range of books including his latest work A Guide to Creative Writing and the Imagination published by Routledge Press. He also co-hosts the podcast Lost Xplorers with J. David Osborne.
His first novel Zanesville was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award and became a cult favourite in translation in Russia and Poland. His novel Private Midnight achieved bestseller status in France and Italy. His work The Memory Wound won First Prize in the Missouri Review Audio Play competition, and the film of his published play The Humble Assessment has been screened at 19 international festivals. He has been a Fellow at the MacDowell and the Black Mountain Institute, Distinguished Artist in Residence at Seattle University, Visiting Master Artist at Salem State University and California State University Dominguez Hills, and a Mellon Scholar in Residence at Rhodes University in South Africa.
After living half his life outside America, he lives now in Boulder City, Nevada and is currently an Adjunct Professor at UNLV.
IN YOUR MIND
Has this interview sparked any thoughts or questions about your own mind's eye, creative process, or inner experience? I'd love to hear your insights! Share your reflections in the comments below or on social media!
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ABOUT THE SHOW
In 2022 writer and host Jay Springett discovered he had aphantasia - the inability to voluntarily create mental images in one's mind. For 36 years he thought 'picture this' was a metaphor.
Experience.Computer is slow radio about high tech. An interview show exploring perception, experience and expression. The show examines how people perceive the world, and how they work with the creative tools they use to make their work with.
ABOUT THE HOST
Jay Springett is a strategist and writer. His work focuses on the design, administration and flourishing of worlds of all kinds He has hosted the 301 second long essay podcast Permanently Moved since 2018, and Experience.Computer since 2023. Jay is currently working on his first book ‘The Web Was a Side Quest‘ and writes online at thejaymo.net
Kris Saknussemm