Best Robb Pope Podcasts (2024)

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David Glicksman, Luminous Podcast Episode 026 1:15:21

2y ago1:15:21

1:15:21

Hey guys, welcome back to the Luminous Arts! I spend the next hour and a half talking to a good friend of mine, David Glicksman. He’s the Director of Creative Technology at Gensler’s DxD department in LA. They’re doing some really next-level installations in some of the world's most impressive architectural projects. David’s an incredibly creative …

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Nathan Lachenmyer, Luminous Podcast Episode 025 1:47:55

2y ago1:47:55

1:47:55

In this episode, I sit down with my friend Nathan Lachenmyer to talk about his work as a creative technologist. He started his career at MIT, in my hometown of Boston, which is actually how I met Nathan in the first place. Nathan is a super talented creator and he’s worked on some iconic installations at the Dana Farber Institute and the Tate Moder…

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Christopher Bauder, Luminous Podcast Episode 024 1:40:21

2y ago1:40:21

1:40:21

Christopher Bauder, the founder of White Void, was one of the people that I had in mind when I started the Luminous Arts podcast. I was in Berlin for the Touch Designer Summit when I first saw his work. It was a performance called Skalar and it was being shown in an old abandoned transit station. It was just crazy to me that thousands of people wou…

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Bill Galusha , Luminous Podcast Episode 023 1:19:46

2+ y ago1:19:46

1:19:46

Bill and I started to circle each other off of the Shiny list about a year and a half ago. He’s an OG head in the new media arts scene and he’s worked with some of the most iconic groups and projects in our community. Bot and Dolly, Future Forward, Nonotak, Obscura, GMunk, VT Pro, Leviathan, he’s been around the block and literally knows everyone d…

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Nicholas Perillo, Luminous Podcast Episode 022 1:46:27

2+ y ago1:46:27

1:46:27

Nick is the creative mind behind one of the most impressive works of kinetic new media arts I’ve seen. The piece is called morph and it’s truly a genius mix of form, motion, light, and sound. I saw the work come through my social media feeds and immediately wanted to get in touch. Our conversation was mostly about the creative process, I wanted to …

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Tiffany Trenda, Luminous Podcast Episode 021 1:18:53

2+ y ago1:18:53

1:18:53

Tiffany Trenda is a new media fashion artist based out of LA. We met each other through my friend Anouk, another new media artist active in the fashion-tech scene. I was curious how the conversation would go. We spoke on the phone about a week ago and our conversation was really flowing. That totally continued through this episode. She’s spent her …

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Luke Taylor, Luminous Podcast Episode 020 1:24:25

3y ago1:24:25

1:24:25

Welcome back to the Luminous Arts! This time I’m talking to my friend Luke Taylor from all the way over in Australia. He’s the lead engineer for Advatek, the company that makes the Pixlite line of LED controllers. We’ve been using his hardware for years, giving them shit when we need new features and working with them to keep the needs of the light…

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Shlomo Zippel, Luminous Podcast Episode 019 1:54:12

3y ago1:54:12

1:54:12

Welcome back my artist people! In this episode I’m talking with Shlomo Zippel, a developer turned light artist based out of the Bay Area. We’ve kind of been in each other’s orbits for years but we’d never actually met in person. Recently I started dating a friend of his, and that prompted me to get in touch. He was one of the original contributors …

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Toshi Hoo, Luminous Podcast Episode 018 1:42:04

3y ago1:42:04

1:42:04

Toshi and I have been friends for almost 20 years. I met him on a beach in Cape Cod during a psytrance party. He was an established VJ in the Boston scene and I was just trying to figure out how that whole world worked. He brought me into the fold and taught me about the software and the methods that people were using to mix visuals live to electro…

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Joshua White, Luminous Podcast Episode 017 1:25:23

3y ago1:25:23

1:25:23

This is a really special episode for me. Joshua is one of the pioneers in the performance visual arts scene. He was one of the first to project live visuals on stage and since I was 18 years old I’ve known about his work as one of the pioneers of visual music. When I was vjing professionally back in 2005 I got a chance to meet Josh and work with hi…

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Richard DDT Trapani, Luminous Podcast Episode 016 1:38:52

3y ago1:38:52

1:38:52

Good morning people! In this episode, I sit down with my longtime friend Rich Trapani, or Rich DDT as residents of the Bay Area know him. Originally out of my hometown, Boston, he’s made a name for himself out on the West Coast running an immersive new media salon called Lovetech. It’s a dance party slash multimedia arts expose where tinkerers, art…

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Bob Bonniol, Luminous Podcast Episode 015 53:46

3+ y ago53:46

53:46

Welcome back, everybody! This episode is with Bob Bonniol, the founder of Mode Studios in Seattle, and a longtime inspiration to me. He’s a legend in the live show production industry, being at the forefront of new media technologies as they made their way onto the stage. Coming up in the Theatrical world, he was an early adopter of projection mapp…

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Sofia Aronov, Luminous Podcast Episode 014 59:10

3+ y ago59:10

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Hey everyone, welcome back to the Luminous Arts Podcast! Today I’m talking with Sofia Aronov, an Italian experiential designer and new media artist living and working in NYC. I met Sofia on a trip to Brooklyn back in 2019. She was working for Fake Love, the experiential advertising company by The New York Times. In January 2020, she became Senior E…

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Steve Lieberman, Luminous Podcast Episode 013 59:59

3+ y ago59:59

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Hey everyone, welcome to the 13th episode of the Luminous Arts Podcast! Steve Lieberman is a longtime friend and inspiration of mine. He’s a lighting designer who’s work is world-renowned in the festival stage and high-end nightclub arenas. I met Steve back in the early 2000s when I was working with Vello Virkhause at the Ultra Music Festival in Mi…

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Forest Stearns, Luminous Podcast Episode 012 1:29:20

4y ago1:29:20

1:29:20

Forest and I have been friends for almost 12 years. We were talking about art projects before I started Digital Ambiance and before he was an Art Director at Deviant Art down in LA. He’s a prolific illustrator and street artist who’s skills with a paintbrush, spray can, and tablet are unparalleled among the many artists I know. He is based in Oakla…

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Mark Slee, Luminous Podcast Episode 011 1:05:35

4y ago1:05:35

1:05:35

In this episode of Luminous Arts, I talk with Mark Slee, the creator of LX Studio, the software behind the Tree of Tenere. He’s an accomplished producer and light artist who runs an art gallery out of San Francisco. We’re both quarantined in separate corners of the world due to the Coronavirus, with Mark in Montreal and me in the British Virgin Isl…

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Timo Lejeune, Luminous Podcast Episode 010 1:33:47

4y ago1:33:47

1:33:47

Well, that was an excellent conversation. I just finished a long episode of the Luminous Arts with Timo Lejeune, a light artist based in the Netherlands. His group, Lumus Instruments, combines light and music in integrated performances using a custom software stack that he’s creating. One part sculptural lighting artists, one part music producers, …

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Gabriel Dunne, Luminous Podcast Episode 009 1:38:47

4y ago1:38:47

1:38:47

Hey everybody! This episode of the Podcast is with Gabriel Dunne, an interactive multimedia artist and code wizard who’s been a staple of the Bay Area New-Media Arts scene for more than a decade. He’s one of the original members of the OOOShiny list, a gathering place and discussion forum for some of the most prolific new-media artists worldwide. T…

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Keith Anderson, Luminous Podcast Episode 008 1:37:46

4y ago1:37:46

1:37:46

Keith and I met for the first time during my trip to Vegas this year for the LDI Conference. I learned about his work as a VJ in the festival scene years ago and at Burning Man this year he started dating one of my installation techs! When they both moved to Vegas together so that Keith could take a job-creating custom visuals for Melt Creative, I …

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Tyler Kicera, Luminous Podcast Episode 007 1:27:53

4+ y ago1:27:53

1:27:53

Hey everyone, welcome to the Luminous Podcast! This week I did my first remote episode of the show, which actually went really smoothly. I sat down (across the country) with Tyler Kicera, Senior Director of the Kinetics Department at Tait Towers. They’re responsible for some of the most incredible kinetic stage designs and permanent installations i…

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Rebeca Sanchez Pastor, Luminous Podcast Episode 006 1:35:36

4+ y ago1:35:36

1:35:36

I met with Rebeca while she was in the country consulting on a new nightclub design in Las Vegas. Her company, LEDs Control is a very prolific LED feature design firm and has a lot in common with Digital Ambiance. She’s a Mexican native, Barcelona-based entrepreneur who started in the lighting industry in 2001 as a self-taught student of lighting c…

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Matthew Ragan, Luminous Podcast Episode 005 1:31:36

4+ y ago1:31:36

1:31:36

Hey everybody, today Matthew Ragan joins me for a beer here at the Lumen Labs and we talk all about his life and career in the world of projection mapping. He’s a Touch Designer Wizard who started out doing live performance art at Keen State back in the early 2000’s, then during his masters program at Arizona State he hosted a popular Touch Designe…

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Scott Draves, Luminous Podcast Episode 004 1:20:14

5y ago1:20:14

1:20:14

My friendship with Scott goes back to before I moved to the West Coast. He’s an artist & programmer that made his name coding phenomenal generative artwork. His most well-known piece, titled “Electric Sheep”, started as a self-evolving algorithm, gaining traction in the Motion Graphics community before becoming a phenomenon unto itself. Seeing the …

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Christopher Schardt, Luminous Podcast Episode 003 1:32:55

5y ago1:32:55

1:32:55

In this episode I sit down with Christopher Schardt, creator of the Firmament LED installation and a prominent light artist. He’s spent much of his artistic career making pieces for display at the Burning Man Festival and we ended up spending much of this episode discussing the intricacies of making light-art installations for that venue. Our discu…

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Cynthia Cardenas, Luminous Podcast Episode 002 1:28:31

5y ago1:28:31

1:28:31

Welcome to episode 2 of the Luminous podcast. We just finished up the Smode master classes here at the Lumen Labs. There were so many cool people here from all over the country to learn all about this amazing new platform. Tonight I got to hang out with Cynthia Cardenas, a performing visual artist based out of Nashville Tennessee. She tells me abou…

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Brian Pinkham, Luminous Podcast Episode 001 58:29

5y ago58:29

58:29

Brian is a brilliant LED programmer who uses microcontrollers to create embedded systems that drive light patterns across the light-art installations he builds. He’s had his work displayed at festival installations around the world including Galactic Jungle at Burning Man, Carrie Thompson’s Portal, and Helianthus Enormae with Fez Gaetz. Links & Soc…

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The Luminous Arts Podcast

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David Glicksman, Luminous Podcast Episode 026 1:15:21

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Nathan Lachenmyer, Luminous Podcast Episode 025 1:47:55

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Christopher Bauder, Luminous Podcast Episode 024 1:40:21

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Bill Galusha , Luminous Podcast Episode 023 1:19:46

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Nicholas Perillo, Luminous Podcast Episode 022 1:46:27

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Tiffany Trenda, Luminous Podcast Episode 021 1:18:53

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Luke Taylor, Luminous Podcast Episode 020 1:24:25

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Shlomo Zippel, Luminous Podcast Episode 019 1:54:12

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Toshi Hoo, Luminous Podcast Episode 018 1:42:04

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Joshua White, Luminous Podcast Episode 017 1:25:23

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Richard DDT Trapani, Luminous Podcast Episode 016 1:38:52

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Bob Bonniol, Luminous Podcast Episode 015 53:46

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Sofia Aronov, Luminous Podcast Episode 014 59:10

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Steve Lieberman, Luminous Podcast Episode 013 59:59

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Forest Stearns, Luminous Podcast Episode 012 1:29:20

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Mark Slee, Luminous Podcast Episode 011 1:05:35

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Timo Lejeune, Luminous Podcast Episode 010 1:33:47

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Gabriel Dunne, Luminous Podcast Episode 009 1:38:47

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Keith Anderson, Luminous Podcast Episode 008 1:37:46

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Tyler Kicera, Luminous Podcast Episode 007 1:27:53

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Rebeca Sanchez Pastor, Luminous Podcast Episode 006 1:35:36

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Matthew Ragan, Luminous Podcast Episode 005 1:31:36

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Scott Draves, Luminous Podcast Episode 004 1:20:14

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Christopher Schardt, Luminous Podcast Episode 003 1:32:55

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Cynthia Cardenas, Luminous Podcast Episode 002 1:28:31

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Brian Pinkham, Luminous Podcast Episode 001 58:29

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