Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Tony Oursler, a multimedia and installation artist best known for his distorted video projections, which explore the tension between technology and the supernatural. Tracing the manifestations of the uncanny across technological advancements from puppets and telegraphs to modern and contemporary video art, this episode establishes the relationship between the uncanny and technology and shows how it develops across media forms.
In this week’s episode of Tomorrow is the Problem, host Dr. Donna Honarpisheh sits down with Jeffrey Sconce, film professor at Northwestern University and author of the book Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television, and internationally renowned video artist Tony Oursler himself to discuss his work.
Music Selections by Tony Oursler: Sound digressions in 7 colors, Red oweb, Green oweb, Magasin, Influence Machine, Black oweb
Tomorrow is the Problem is brought to you by the Knight Foundation Art + Research Center and is produced in partnership with FRQNCY Media (https://frqncy.media/) .
Tony Oursler, a multimedia and installation artist best known for his distorted video projections, which explore the tension between technology and the supernatural. Tracing the manifestations of the uncanny across technological advancements from puppets and telegraphs to modern and contemporary video art, this episode establishes the relationship between the uncanny and technology and shows how it develops across media forms.
In this week’s episode of Tomorrow is the Problem, host Dr. Donna Honarpisheh sits down with Jeffrey Sconce, film professor at Northwestern University and author of the book Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television, and internationally renowned video artist Tony Oursler himself to discuss his work.
Music Selections by Tony Oursler: Sound digressions in 7 colors, Red oweb, Green oweb, Magasin, Influence Machine, Black oweb
Tomorrow is the Problem is brought to you by the Knight Foundation Art + Research Center and is produced in partnership with FRQNCY Media (https://frqncy.media/) .
