Artizen Talks & Conversations
The Artizen Talks interview series, candid conversations with artists, funders, founders and builders about creativity, the future of arts funding, and rewriting the way creative projects get made.
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15 moments in this segment.
- - Composer Graham Reynolds on Creativity. In this wide-ranging conversation, composer-bandleader Graham Reynolds (the man behind scores for Richard Linklater films like A Scanner Darkly, Bernie and Before Midnight) shares how he cultivates creativity, sustains a prolific career and brings fresh energy to every project.
- - Artizen Talks with Asad Malik. What happens when storytelling, AR, and world-building collide? Asad Malik has been pushing that frontier for a decade. He built Jadu into one of the most innovative AR studios in the world a place where technology becomes mythmaking and digital characters feel alive.
- - Artizen Talks with Danielle Strachman 📱. Danielle Strachman has spent her career backing unconventional geniuses first as co-founder of the Thiel Fellowship and now as the force behind 1517 Fund, a venture firm named for the year Martin Luther challenged the status quo and sparked a creative revolution.
- - Cinema Unbound: Artizen Talks with Amy Dotson. Amy Dotson, the visionary director of PAM CUT and curator of Film & New Media at the Portland Art Museum, joins Artizen Talks for a deep dive into the future of storytelling.
- - Creative Commons: Artizen Talks with Chris Schultz. In this episode, Chris Schultz entrepreneur, investor, and author of Analog joins us to explore how real-world communities and physical spaces fuel creativity, agency, and meaningful work.
- - Future of Immersive Storytelling: Artizen Talks with Venice Curator Michel Reilhac. In this episode of Artizen Talks, Michel Reilhac curator of Venice Immersive at the Venice Film Festival and one of the world’s leading voices in XR storytelling joins René to explore how creativity evolves when technology reshapes the medium itself.
- - Creative Mutants: Artizen Talks with Danielle Strachman. An Artizen Talks conversation, interviews with artists, funders and builders about the future of creative work. Published Dec 2025 on the Artizen Fund YouTube channel.
- - Future of Fun: Artizen Talks with Brent Bushnell on Creativity, Legacy, and Invention. In this episode of Artizen Talks, Brent Bushnell founder of Two Bit Circus and son of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese creator Nolan Bushnell joins René for a conversation about how play becomes a serious engine for invention.
- - Artizen Talks with Nathalie Gouailhardou. An Artizen Talks conversation, interviews with artists, funders and builders about the future of creative work. Published Dec 2025 on the Artizen Fund YouTube channel.
- - I Used to Be Normal but It Drove Me Mad: Artizen Talks with Michel Reilhac. An Artizen Talks conversation, interviews with artists, funders and builders about the future of creative work. Published Dec 2025 on the Artizen Fund YouTube channel.
- - Founder Energy: Artizen Talks with Rae Lambert. In this episode of Artizen Talks, René sits down with Rae Lambert founder, operator, and community-builder. From launching products at Intercom to scaling a $2M agency, Rae now runs DNNR, helping creators host branded dinner clubs in the real world.
- - Artizen Rewriting Reality: Artizen Talks with Nancy Baker Cahill. In this episode of Artizen Talks, René Pinnell sits down with artist and XR pioneer Nancy Baker Cahill to explore how augmented reality, public art, and emerging tech are reshaping power, space, and who gets to be seen.
- - Funding What Matters: Artizen Talks with Kevin Owocki. Kevin Owocki built one of the most consequential experiments in funding public goods on the internet. Since 2017, Gitcoin’s Grants and quadratic funding model have helped direct over $60 million toward open-source, public-goods projects from early backing of DeFi giants like Uniswap to infrastructure that underpins E...
- - Funding the Commons: Artizen Talks with David Casey. An Artizen Talks conversation, interviews with artists, funders and builders about the future of creative work. Published Feb 2026 on the Artizen Fund YouTube channel.
- - The Future of Arts Funding - A Conversation with Stephen Reily. An Artizen Talks conversation, interviews with artists, funders and builders about the future of creative work. Published Apr 2026 on the Artizen Fund YouTube channel.