The first episode of our segment on “Art, AI, and Technology” is finally up for your consideration. Head over to Soundcloud (or your listening conveyance of choice) for our conversation with director Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman about his web series and now feature film Early Stage, the protests happening in both LA (where he is based) and Seattle (where I am) this summer, police brutality, the houseless crisis, the perils of social media, AI as a symbiotic lifeform, and the rather banal-yet-dangerous role it currently plays in our lives, Star Trek, Covid, how smartphones have changed our brains, and his conversations with Paradise, CA residents that resulted in his upcoming film, "Tips on Surviving the End of the World".
His intimate, provocative documentary work has won a regional EMMY and an Edes Award for Emerging Artists. His documentaries have been featured in the Zeppelin Museum, the Athens Biennale, San Francisco's DeYoung Museum, the BBC, PBS, Atlas Obscura, the Washington Post, NBC Left Field, and a handful of other platforms. This work has brought him to Ghana, Burkina Faso, Vietnam, Tahiti, a heavy metal cruise in the Caribbean, and a snake-handling Pentecostal Church in Kentucky.
His scripted webseries "Early Stage", which was the seed of his current feature film, was originally released online as short vignettes on DIS.art, and in the physical world at Madrid's Matadero Museum in 2019 and at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Coppenhagen in 2020, and was recently part of a group exhibition called "The Sea Is Glowing" at Drugo More Gallery in Rijeka, Croatia.
He has directed music videos for Squarepusher (Warp Records), DNTEL (Dublab), Anna Ash, Gosh Pith, Horatio Clam, Lord Scrummage, and Briar Rabbit.
