by Future Artefacts FM
Future Artefacts FM is a bi-monthly talk show hosted by Nina Davies, Niamh Schmidtke and Rebecca Edwards, featuring speculative fiction audio works such as radio plays, short stories, fictional interviews and podcasts. Follow our instagram @futureartefacts.fm for more news, updates and details about the show. Thanks for listening, Nina, Niamh and Rebecca
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June 8, 2026
In this episode we talk to Mumbai-based artist and UCLA assistant professor Sahej Rahal, whose practice spans sculpture, video games, AI simulations, film, and painting. Starting from three excerpts of Rahal's text Hallucination Stream we discuss how the micro-fictions of Simulation, Story and Rumour explore caste as a mythology sustained through narrative, hallucination, and political performance. Across the conversation, Rahal reflects on ghosts, digital folklore, cooperative gaming, and the role of art in confronting systems of power.This mini-series is commissioned by the Henry Moore Institute @henrymooreinstitute as a part of their program for their exhibition Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age, open 15th May - 30th August 2026.Bio;Sahej Rahal (born 1988, Mumbai, India) is an artist and assistant professor of Design Media Arts at, UCLA. Rahal is primarily a storyteller. He creates counter-mythologies that interrogate narrations of the present. This myth world takes the shape of sculptures, performances, films, paintings, installations, video games, and AI simulation programs. Drawing upon folklore, prophecies, archaeological conspiracies, hidden histories, and occult manuscripts, he renders scenarios where the fictive and the real begin to converse, at the borderlines of myth and memory.Voice actor Nivedita Nair Sound designer John TrevaskisBroadcast through @rtm.fmArtist @sahejrahal Host @influential_bro @_rebecca.edwards @niamhschmidtke Music @joemoss1 @jtre_vwww.futureartefactsfm.com
May 11, 2026
We’re so excited to launch a new mini series commissioned by Henry Moore Institute @henrymooreinstitute as a part of their new exhibition Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age. In the first episode we talk to the exhibition curator Sean Ketteringham. Moving between folk art histories, sculptural practices, affect theory, hauntology, horror, and memetic culture, we discuss what functions as contemporary folklore, questioning what sculpture becomes when it exists through circulation and interaction rather than static objects. This mini-series is commissioned by the Henry Moore Institute @henrymooreinstitute as a part of their program for their exhibition Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age, open 15th May - 30th August 2026.Bios;Sean Ketteringham is Assistant Curator of Exhibitions at Henry Moore Institute and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. His first book, Architectures of Identity: Imperial Decline and the Homes of English Modernism, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2027. From May 2026, he will join the University of Birmingham as a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow on a new project titled 'Postwar Folk'. Henry Moore Institute's Galleries, Research Library and Archive of Sculptors' Papers are free to access and open to all. As part of the Henry Moore Foundation, they are a hub for sculpture, connecting a global network of artists and scholars to ensure the art form is accessible and celebrated by a wide audience. Discover their changing programme of historical, modern and contemporary exhibitions and events in Leeds city centre, where Henry Moore (1898-1986) began his training as a sculptor.Guest Sean KetteringhamHosts @influential_bro @_rebecca.edwards @niamhschmidtke Music @joemoss1 @jtre_vBroadcast through @rtm.fm
May 7, 2026
For this episode, we recap our As A Chorus mini-series, revisiting conversations with artists Niamh Schmidtke, Dane Sutherland, Rhys Morgan, and Emily Roderick. The discussion expands from ideas around choirs and group singing into broader questions about authorship, infrastructure, collaboration, and collective survival within the contemporary art landscape.We reflect on how artistic work is rarely created in isolation, touching on socially engaged practice, artist collectives, digital production, labour, and the emotional infrastructures that sustain creative communities. Collaboration isn’t just a working method, but a form of resistance and mutual support in increasingly precarious cultural and economic conditions.Hosts @influential_bro @_rebecca.edwards @niamhschmidtke Music @joemoss1 @jtre_vBroadcast through @rtm.fm
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Future Artefacts FM is a bi-monthly talk show hosted by Nina Davies, Niamh Schmidtke and Rebecca Edwards, featuring speculative fiction audio works such as radio plays, short stories, fictional interviews and podcasts.
Follow our instagram @futureartefacts.fm for more news, updates and details about the show.
Thanks for listening, Nina, Niamh and Rebecca
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