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 machines: testing, tools, refinement (Georgie Friedman, Matthew, Troy)

  (00:09:34) Making with others: teams, shared practice, impact (Darryl Rogers, Alex and Maggie, Keith)

  (00:14:17) Closing

  Links from the podcast

  Guests

  • Johan F Karlsson— website
  • Ariana Gerstein — website
  • Matt Warren— website
  • Rita Eperjesi — website
  • Georgie Friedman — website
  • Matthew Ragan — website
  • Troy Merritt / Soma Lumia — website
  • Darryl Rogers — website
  • Alex Moss — website
  • Maggie Jeffries — website
  • Keith Armstrong — website

  • Projects and organisations mentioned

    • The Weather at Midnight
    • Moonah Arts Centre
    • Dissolution
    • Lacuna

In this podcast you will learn how artists Alex Moss and Maggie May Jeffries developed a shared creative process that bridges traditional painting and interactive media.

In this interview, Alex Moss and Maggie Jeffries discuss the creative process behind The Weather at midnight. The exhibition combines painting, projection, and real-time interaction to create a shifting environment of light and movement. Through subtle digital overlays and live painting, static canvases become dynamic, evolving works that change with audience presence. The exhibition was presented at Moonah Arts Centre.

Alex Moss is a Lutruwita/Tasmanian-based media artist whose work transforms spaces through projected light, sound design, and interactive elements. Maggie May Jeffries is a painter from Lutruwita/Tasmania whose practice explores memory, environment, and sensory experience through layered, detailed compositions.

Listen to this podcast to learn about:

• The role of experimentation, trust, and structure in cross-disciplinary collaboration, and how shared workshops shaped Alex and Maggie’s evolving process.
• How data, audience presence, and live performance intertwined during the exhibition.
• What “slow noticing” reveals about time, attention, and the perception of creative work.

Chapters

(00:00:00) Introduction to artist collaboration

(00:01:18) Meet Maggie and Alex

(00:01:52) The weather at midnight project

(00:04:17) Audience experience and interaction

(00:05:51) Inspiration and process

(00:09:11) Live painting and performance

(00:18:06) Workshops and collaboration

(00:23:26) Future directions and advice

(00:25:13) Conclusion and farewell

About Alex Moss

Alex Moss is a media artist based in Lutruwita/Tasmania and a member of Second Echo Ensemble. With over ten years of experience, his work spans projection, sound design, and interactive installation, transforming spaces through light and sensory engagement. He has created work for the University of Tasmania, Hobart City Council, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, and the Huon Valley Mid-Winter Festival. Alex received the 2023 Best Sound Design Professional Theatre Award for Outside Boy with Second Echo Ensemble.

About Maggie Jeffries

Maggie May Jeffries is a painter based in Lutruwita/Tasmania and a member of Second Echo Ensemble. Her practice explores memory, place, and the natural environment through layered paintings that merge observation with imagination. She graduated with First Class Honours in Fine Art and Psychology from the University of Tasmania in 2022. Represented by Despard Gallery, she received the NEXT Award in 2018 and was a finalist in the 2024 Women’s Art Prize Tasmania.

Links from this podcast with Alex Moss and Maggie Jeffries

• Visit Moonah Arts Centre
• Explore Moonah Arts Centre’s exhibition page for The weather at midnight
• Visit Alex Moss’ website
• Follow Alex Moss on Instagram
• Learn more about Maggie May Jeffries at Despard Gallery
• Follow Maggie May Jeffries on Instagram

In this podcast you will learn why curiosity matters more than technical skill.

In this interview, Matthew Ragan explores coding as a practice of sculpting and rehearsal, showing how collaboration with technology leads to more fluid and sustainable creative outcomes.Matthew Ragan is a California-based creative technologist, educator, and co-founder of SudoMagic. He has an MFA in interdisciplinary digital media and performance. His TouchDesigner tutorials are used by creatives worldwide.

Listen to this podcast to learn about:

• Why curiosity and patience matter more than technical skill in creative coding

• What Matthew Ragan’s circus training revealed about working with technology as a collaborator rather than an obstacle.

• Why “slow coding” offers a sustainable counterbalance to the culture of instant results.

Chapters

(00:00:00) Introduction and host's acknowledgment

(00:00:48) Guest introduction: Matthew Ragan

(00:01:15) The importance of curiosity in creative coding

(00:02:31) Exploring noise algorithms and sculpting

(00:05:08) Lessons from circus performance to coding

(00:07:17) Balancing creative and commercial projects

(00:09:15) Matthew's journey into coding

(00:22:03) Choosing the right tools and languages

(00:24:03) Advice for newcomers and final thoughts

(00:30:55) Conclusion and call to action

About Matthew Ragan

Matthew Ragan is a California-based creative technologist, educator, and artist whose work bridges performance and technology. With a background in acting, dance, and circus arts, he brings embodied lessons of rehearsal and collaboration into his creative coding practice. He has shaped a generation of artists through his widely used TouchDesigner tutorials, and professionally he has led large-scale projects at Obscura Digital and the Madison Square Garden Company, including Art on theMart and the MSG Sphere. He is the co-founder of SudoMagic, a boutique software and design studio.

Links from the podcast with Matthew Ragan

• Visit Matthew Ragan’s website
• Explore Matthew Ragan’s teaching resources
• Visit SudoMagic, the studio he co-founded
• Follow Matthew Ragan on Instagram
• See Matthew Ragan’s GitHub projects
• Discover TouchDesigner, the platform central to his teaching and creative coding practice
• Learn more about Python, a core scripting language in his work
• Watch Matthew’s masterclass for Interactive & Immersive HQ: How to approach building a real project on YouTube