tom hogan

Are you a traditional arts practitioner wanting to upskill, or a science / engineering / education specialist keen to bridge the creative gap? Find out about experience and interaction design, programming electronics and collaborative multi-media creative practice and how you can get involved. Tom Hogan has pulled together a panel of interactive technology experts. Jane Venegas is a Virtual Reality content producer whose focus is on creative education and gender rebalancing in the technology space, with her company Nested Realities. Abhiruchi Chhikara is an engineer who studied Robotics and Mechatronics and then changed course into interaction design and electronic arts - she teaches at Sydney University under the title, Creative Technologist. Agnieszka Golda and Jo Law are the team leaders behind a fascinating project funded by the University of Wollongong's Global Challenges, a collaboration between contemporary arts, materials science and climate change, that saw the combining of traditional textile processes including embroidery, with graphene, hand-made electronics, and climate data - the project produced the exhibition Spinning World at the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences last year.

Novak & JH debrief with their producer Wade Keighran, about the Iguana recording process, in the hopes that things couldn't have been as bad as they remember. Turns out, it was even worse than they thought.

Novak & JH feel like they've been hit by a Bhuja Mix delivery van. They're exhausted from making the album, and they haven't even started touring it yet. They don't know what happened. It wasn't supposed to be this hard. And, goddamn, don't podcasts need a theme song?

Polish Club's JH & Novak call their manager, Charlotte Ried, for a podcast production meeting. || Polish Club's Sophomore Slump will launch Wednesday 7 August. Subscribe now for first access!