The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society: Books, Film, Music, TV, Art, Writing, Creativity, Education, Environment, Theatre, Dance, LGBTQ, Climate Change, Social Justice, Spirituality, Feminism, Tech, Sustainability
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<p>Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations with writers, artists and creative thinkers across the Arts and STEM. We discuss their life, work and artistic practice. Winners of Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Pulitzer, Nobel Prize, leaders and public figures share real experiences and offer valuable insights. Notable guests and participating museums and organizations include: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Neil Patrick Harris, Smithsonian, Roxane Gay, Musée Picasso, EARTHDAY-ORG, Neil Gaiman, UNESCO, Joyce Carol Oates, Mark Seliger, Acropolis Museum, Hilary Mantel, Songwriters Hall of Fame, George Saunders, The New Museum, Lemony Snicket, Pritzker Architecture Prize, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Galleries, Joe Mantegna, PETA, Greenpeace, EPA, Morgan Library and Museum, and many others.</p> <p>The interviews are hosted by founder and creative educator Mia Funk with the participation of students, universities, and collaborators from around the world. These conversations are also part of our traveling exhibition.</p>
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Recent Episodes
June 24, 2026
Taking Back Control in the Age of AI: Creativity, Transhumanism & The Myth of Machine Consciousness
Host Mia Funk interviews philosophers Siri Hustvedt, C. Thi Nguyen, and Bayo Akomolafe, alongside artist Jonathan Yeo, actress Catherine Curtin, and others, exploring human creativity's resilience against AI and the myth of machine consciousness.
June 22, 2026
Reincarnation, Food & Memory: AMITAV GHOSH on What Connects Us in an Age of Climate Crisis
<p>“Imagining with precision is a very fundamental part of my work. When I sit down to write about anything, whether it be The Hungry Tide in the Sundarbans, or let's say The Shadow Lines, or Ghost-Eye. It's very important for me to get the topography right, to get the outlay of the streets or the house exactly right so I can actually picture all of that in my head. It's very important for me to have a sort of pictorial sense of what I'm seeing and what I'm writing about. Before I can write about it, I need to see it, as it were. So that's absolutely fundamental to my craft. That's just how I go about it. Like the Sufis say—behind the apparent reality is a hidden or ba- reality. “</p><p>In this episode of the Speaking Out of Place podcast, Professor <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.palumbo-liu.com/"><strong>David Palumbo-Liu </strong></a>talks with <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amitavghosh.com/"><strong>Amitav Ghosh</strong></a> about his new novel, Ghost-Eye. The novel is about reincarnation, but also a lot more. In our conversation we talk about the need to address the terrible set of environmental and other crises we face, and the seeming foreclosure of the imagination by the obsession with technology and the future it offers to us. Instead, we look to how we can fashion beginnings out of endings, aided by a renewed sense of wonder, curiosity, and awe. We turn to the body, to the haptic, and perhaps most important, to food as more than simply nourishment. In all this, story-telling, the revival of connections between living beings, and a deep sense of other times and places are central.</p><p>(0:56) <strong>Planetary Crisis and Accelerating Disasters</strong></p><p>(3:50) <strong>The Lasting Impact of The Hungry Tide</strong></p><p>(5:00) <strong>Storytelling and the Existential Crisis</strong></p><p>(8:26) <strong>Imagining with Precision in Literature</strong></p><p>(12:46) <strong>The Denuded Human Existence and AI</strong></p><p>(15:37) <strong>Artisanal Intelligence vs. Artificial Intelligence</strong></p><p>(17:57) <strong>Food, Industrial Agriculture, and Memory</strong></p><p>(21:16) <strong>Cultural Assimilation Through Cooking</strong></p><p>(24:12) <strong>The Sociability and Joy of Cooking</strong></p><p>(27:57) <strong>The Failure of the Humanities</strong></p><p>(31:38) <strong>The Role of the Narrator</strong></p><p>(35:27) <strong>Regaining Our Sense of Wonder</strong></p><p>(37:04) <strong>Past Life Memories and Circular Temporality</strong></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.creativeprocess.info/speaking-out-of-place-6/amitav-ghosh">Episode Website</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.palumbo-liu.com/"><strong>www.palumbo-liu.com</strong></a><strong> </strong><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://speakingoutofplace.com/"><strong>https://speakingoutofplace.com</strong></a><strong> Bluesky @</strong><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://palumboliu.bsky.social/"><strong>palumboliu.bsky.social</strong></a> <strong>Instagram @</strong><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/speaking_out_of_place"><strong>speaking_out_of_place</strong></a></p>
June 21, 2026
The Body in Motion: Art, Science & Healing w/ Siri Hustvedt, Master Shi Heng Yi, Anil Seth, Noelani Pantastico…
<p>How much of our consciousness is shaped by our bodies? That rhythmical reality that Siri Hustvedt describes is something we often take for granted until it is disrupted by grief or illness. Much of what we consider the mind is happening in the body.</p><p>Today, we're looking at embodied cognition, the idea that we think with our limbs, our breath and our physical interactions with the world. We will hear from researchers and neuroscientists Anil Seth, David J. Linden, Dr. Guy Leschziner and Daisy Fancourt, who are studying how much touch, sleep and the arts physically alter our brains. We will also talk with philosophers, advocates and spiritual leaders Arash Abizadeh, Bayo Akomolafe, Master Shi Heng Yi and Helen Whybrow. To understand how this translates into art and movement, we are joined by author Siri Hustvedt, curator Marie Nipper, psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, dancer and ballet stager Noelani Pantastico and choreographer Sean Curran.</p><p>0:00) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.creativeprocess.info/interviews-featured/siri-hustvedt">Siri Hustvedt</a> (Author of Ghost Stories) (18:53) (2:22) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.creativeprocess.info/stem1/guy-leschziner-mia-funk">Guy Leschziner</a> (Neurologist, Author, The Nocturnal Brain) (3:45) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.creativeprocess.info/interviews-featured/daisy-fancourt">Daisy Fancourt</a> (Author, Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health) (5:08) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.creativeprocess.info/interviews-featured/helen-whybrow-fe3pn">Helen Whybrow</a> (Shepherd, Organic Farmer, Author of The Salt Stones) (6:28) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.creativeprocess.info/interviews-featured/marie-nipper-arken-museum">Marie Nipper</a> (Dir., Creator Projects, Fmr. Dir., ARKEN Museum of Modern Art) (8:16) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.creativeprocess.info/interviews21/arash-abizadeh-mia-funk">Arash Abizadeh</a> (Professor, Political Science, McGill University, Author) (9:04) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.creativeprocess.info/new-blog-82/david-j-linden-mia-funk">David Linden</a> (Professor, Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Author of Unique, Touch) (11:16) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.creativeprocess.info/interviews-featured/bayo-akomolafe-mia-funk">Bayo Akomolafe</a> (Philosopher, Founder, Emergence Network) (12:13) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.creativeprocess.info/interviews-featured/master-shi-heng-yi-shaolin-temple-europe-mia-funk">Master Shi Heng Yi</a> (35th Generation of Shaolin Masters, Headmaster, Shaolin Temple Europe) (13:48) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.creativeprocess.info/new-blog-82/anil-seth-mia-funk">Anil Seth</a> (Author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness, Co-director, Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science) (15:41) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.creativeprocess.info/interviews18/robert-waldinger-mia-funk">Robert Waldinger</a> (Psychiatrist, Harvard Study of Adult Development, Author, The Good Life) (16:40) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.creativeprocess.info/interviews-3/noelani-pantastico-mia-funk-k6a3p-yaaf6-ynbec">Noelani Pantastico</a> (Fmr. Principal Dancer, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Dance Teacher) (18:02) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.creativeprocess.info/interviews-11/sean-curran-mia-funk">Sean Curran</a> (Dancer, Dir, Sean Curran Company)</p><p>For more, listen to their full interviews</p><p>Episode Site https://www.creativeprocess.info/interviews-featured/anth-body</p>
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