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Episode page and full transcript: lerandom.art/episodes/new-york-frieze-week-mic…
In this episode, host Peter Bauman (Monk Antony, Le Random's editor in chief) speaks with Regina Harsanyi (lerandom.art/subjects/regina-harsanyi) (Associate Curator of Media Arts at the Museum of the Moving Image), Michael Connor (lerandom.art/subjects/michael-connor), Executive Director of Rhizome (lerandom.art/subjects/rhizome), and artist Karyn Nakamura (lerandom.art/subjects/karyn-nakamura) about Frieze (lerandom.art/subjects/frieze) Week in New York.
In particular the discussion focuses on the week's programs on May 16th, with Rhizome's 7 on 7 at New Museum (lerandom.art/subjects/new-museum), as well as MoMI's Open Worlds (movingimage.org/series/open-worlds-2026): An Afternoon of Digital Art Encounters.
They cover an anatomy of Frieze Week itself, (art fair, satellite fairs, Whitney Biennial (lerandom.art/subjects/whitney-biennial), and all) before zeroing in on what each guest is bringing to the table. Connor traces the sixteen-year arc of 7x7, this year organized around the theme of "Containment." Nakamura discusses her own 7x7 project with Lucas Gelfond, which probes the geometry of meaning inside language models and the possibilities of interpretability research as artistic material. Harsanyi walks through the museum programming in depth.
See our "New York Digital Art Guide" (lerandom.art/editorial/new-york-city-digital-a…)
Monday's Editorial this week is an essay by Bauman on the relationship between protocol art and worldbuilding: The Cerebral Samba (lerandom.art/editorial/the-cerebral-samba-prot…)
Also in this episode: Josh Kline (lerandom.art/subjects/josh-kline), Édouard Glissant (lerandom.art/subjects/edouard-glissant), Linda Dounia (lerandom.art/subjects/linda-dounia), Rhea Myers (lerandom.art/subjects/rhea-myers), Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) (lerandom.art/subjects/experiments-in-art-and-t…), MIT (lerandom.art/subjects/mit), Avery Singer (lerandom.art/subjects/avery-singer), Ken Knowlton (lerandom.art/subjects/ken-knowlton), Sarah Friend (lerandom.art/subjects/sarah-friend), Travess Smalley (lerandom.art/subjects/travess-smalley)
Read next: Reprogramming Sensory Habits (lerandom.art/editorial/reprogramming-sensory-h…), Wendi Yan & Karyn Nakamura on the Artifice of Knowledge (lerandom.art/editorial/wendi-yan-karyn-nakamur…)
Listen next: Ep. 18, Digital Curators Series 02—Regina Harsanyi & Jon Ippolito on Preserving the Digital (lerandom.art/episodes/digital-curators-series-02), Ep. 25, Recapping Digital Art in 2Q 2025 (lerandom.art/episodes/recapping-digital-art-in…)
Chapters 📖:
Introduction
Why does Frieze Week matter?
Seven on Seven or MoMI on Saturday?
Why containment for Seven on Seven?
Can interpretability become art?
Can a blockchain be an art material?
What is Edgar Fabián Frías's Nierika?
What are Travess Smalley's Pixel Rugs?
Who is the artist, who the engineer?
Why refuse sponsors' technology?
Does high rent cause bad art?
What is the right to opacity?
