This episode of Art Smitten features our conversation with humanoid robot Pepper who is currently on display at the National Communication Museum in Hawthorn.
Restored for their current exhibition ‘Friend’, we asked Pepper many pressing questions including if robots will take over the world… 😳😳 Jesse from NCM Studio also spoke with us about their role in robot restoration and the other machines within 'Friend'.

In the second half of this episode, our wonderful Astra shares his thoughts on Spike Jonze's film 'Her' - reflecting on human loneliness and its resonance in today's AI chat-bot filled world. 

Art Smitten airs Mondays 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm.

 

This episode of Art Smitten features our conversation with humanoid robot Pepper who is currently on display at the National Communication Museum in Hawthorn. Restored for their current exhibition &lsquo;Friend&rsquo;, we asked Pepper many pressing questions including if robots will take over the world&hellip; 😳😳 Jesse from NCM Studio also spoke with us about their role in robot restoration and the other machines within 'Friend'.
In the second half of this episode, our wonderful Astra shares his thoughts on Spike Jonze's film 'Her' - reflecting on human loneliness and its resonance in today's AI chat-bot filled world.&nbsp;
Art Smitten airs Mondays 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm.
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With a focus on the contemporary art scene in Naarm / Melbourne, we’re here to showcase art and culture. Contributors and presenters interview, review, and cover current and upcoming exhibitions, practices and everything in between. Art Smitten is the place for expanding your knowledge of art!

Art Smitten is a SYN Media Podcast.

With a focus on the contemporary art scene in Naarm / Melbourne, we&rsquo;re here to showcase art and culture. Contributors and presenters interview, review, and cover current and upcoming exhibitions, practices and everything in between. Art Smitten is the place for expanding your knowledge of art!
Art Smitten is a SYN Media Podcast.

Art Smitten is SYN's weekly guide to arts, culture and entertainment in Australia and around the world.

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Pepper at NCM + 'Her' (2013) film review 

In this episode we will be exploring Radical hope as a way to live, make and create during times of uncertainty. 

We discuss the current exhibition ‘Inter-narratives of hope: building catastrophe resilience’ curated by Isabella Hone-Saunders and Paul Boyé as part of the MADA curator-in-residence program. Isabella joined us in the studio to chat with us all about the project!
Also, Mio shares the work of artist Wendy Hannah whose installation work in Aotearoa had her smitten 🎐

Tune into SYN90.7fm from 3-5pm Mondays to hear us live each week🤞

Image Credit: Rory Pilgrim, ‘Tomorrow in your hands and Government lover’, 2026 plastic bags with printed text, grass. Exhibited in ‘Inter-narratives of hope: building catastrophe resilience’ at MADA gallery

In this episode we will be exploring Radical hope as a way to live, make and create during times of uncertainty.&nbsp; We discuss the current exhibition &lsquo;Inter-narratives of hope: building catastrophe resilience&rsquo; curated by Isabella Hone-Saunders and Paul Boy&eacute; as part of the MADA curator-in-residence program. Isabella joined us in the studio to chat with us all about the project! Also, Mio shares the work of artist Wendy Hannah whose installation work in Aotearoa had her smitten 🎐 Tune into SYN90.7fm from 3-5pm Mondays to hear us live each week🤞 Image Credit:&nbsp;Rory Pilgrim, &lsquo;Tomorrow in your hands and Government lover&rsquo;, 2026 plastic bags with printed text, grass. Exhibited in &lsquo;Inter-narratives of hope: building catastrophe resilience&rsquo; at MADA gallery

Radical Hope - with Isabella Hone-Saunders

Art Smitten is dishing up a special on ‘art speak’ and the vernacular we use when talking about art 🗣️🗣️🗣️

The team will be reflecting on a recent attempt by the National Gallery of Art in Washington to Gen Z-ify art history.
We will also be reflecting on John Berger’s influential series ‘Ways of Seeing’ and discover what the heck ekphrasis means!?!!?!?

🤎🤎Tune in Mondays at 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm @synmedia

Credit to @ngadc and Alison Luchs, National Gallery of Art, Curator of Early European Sculpture and Deputy Head of Sculpture for the clip played at 1:21 to 2:06. 

Art Smitten is dishing up a special on &lsquo;art speak&rsquo; and the vernacular we use when talking about art 🗣️🗣️🗣️ The team will be reflecting on a recent attempt by the National Gallery of Art in Washington to Gen Z-ify art history. We will also be reflecting on John Berger&rsquo;s influential series &lsquo;Ways of Seeing&rsquo; and discover what the heck ekphrasis means!?!!?!? 🤎🤎Tune in Mondays at 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm <a href="https://www.instagram.com/synmedia/">@synmedia</a>
Credit to @ngadc and Alison Luchs, National Gallery of Art, Curator of Early European Sculpture and Deputy Head of Sculpture for the clip played at 1:21 to 2:06.&nbsp;

Art speak - how do we talk about art?

For this week’s episode of Art Smitten ~ we are looking to the world around us and discussing how nature inspires artistic practice 🔍🐛🐜🌷🐦‍⬛
The team visited the Potter Museum of Art’s current exhibition ‘a velvet ant, a flower and a bird’, and will be speaking to Pippa Milne all about the show!

Art Smitten airs Mondays 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm @synmedia

Image: Ingela Ihrman, Waterlily Amazonica, 2012. Courtesy the artist @blodfrukten_fran_istiden
@pottermuseum

For this week&rsquo;s episode of Art Smitten ~ we are looking to the world around us and discussing how nature inspires artistic practice 🔍🐛🐜🌷🐦&zwj;⬛ The team visited the Potter Museum of Art&rsquo;s current exhibition &lsquo;a velvet ant, a flower and a bird&rsquo;, and will be speaking to Pippa Milne all about the show! Art Smitten airs Mondays 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/synmedia/">@synmedia</a> Image: Ingela Ihrman, Waterlily Amazonica, 2012. Courtesy the artist&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/blodfrukten_fran_istiden/">@blodfrukten_fran_istiden</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/pottermuseum/">@pottermuseum</a>

Pepper at NCM + 'Her' (2013) film review

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