Turning to the Birds: Episode 5: Machine learning from cli-fi, listening with Sabine Niederer, Andy Dockett & Carlo De Gaetano

This contribution is based on a transcript of the podcast series Voiceblind, by Morgane Billuart at ARIAS during covid lockdowns. In preparation, we - Carlo De Gaetano, Andy Dockett and Sabine Niederer of the Visual Methodologies Collective- were provided with a list of questions and a piece of hardware (a zoom recorder) to interview ourselves about our research practice. To meet in person and at a safe distance, we set out to Westerpark and found a spot where we set up the microphone and held our conversation - to be at times interrupted by an inquisitive duck or a train passing by. We talked for over an hour, and then Andy edited the conversation down to a little under 15 minutes, to fit the format of the podcast series. We inserted a reading of a story by Janine Armin, editor and narrator of Turning to the Birds, our series of machine co-authored climate fiction stories. And lastly, Morgane added her introduction before it was launched by ARIAS as the 5th episode in the Voiceblind podcast series.