Art Smitten - The Podcast

This episode explores the bed and our rooms as sites for artistic expression + resistance

The long weekend is the perfect time to tick off all those movies on your watchlist - so that's exactly what we will be talking about on today’s show!

Get out of your house and onto the streets for today’s episode of Art Smitten

Astra speaks with Ben, the programmer for Fed Square's Open Air! Hear them speak in detail about the uniqueness of outdoor cinematic experiences, public space activation and the films on offer for the 2026 program.  Art Smitten airs 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we are fortunate to be joined by Francesca Smith and Mas Cremasco, two of Yarra Youth’s Artists-in-Residents

For our first show back in 2026, Art Smitten will be speaking to Angela Connor, Senior Curator at MAPh on the exhibition YOUNG

For our last episode of 2025, Art Smitten is bringing you interviews with recent School of Art graduates from RMIT

This interview is part of a segment called Music as Art, implemented by Dani Roche. In this edition, we will be hearing from the members of Special Features for our Music as Art segment!

Our team went on a super special excursion to the folks at Schoolhouse Studios in Coburg to learn more about the spaces, ethos and artists that inhibit this former supermarket space!

Art Smitten is bringing you a special on poetry this episode ✍️To begin, we hear from our Executive Producer Jen all the way in Tokyo to share a little bit of her trip and examples of poetry within Japanese art

On this episode of Art Smitten, presenters Afrina, Astra, Larissa and Tyra shared the art that has moved them. Tyra begins with the 2025 film 'Sinners' dir. by Ryan Coogler; Larissa speaks on her observations of the legal system in Reginald Rose's '12 Angry Men', Afrina reflects on the cultural resilience and beauty of Yosef Phelan's practice; and Astra wraps up with a comparison on loneliness in Edward Hopper's paintings and the film 'Perfect Days' by Wim Wenders. Art Smitten airs on SYN90.7fm Mondays 3-5pm. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Art Smitten is bringing you a special episode on Art Criticism✍️

This episode of Art Smitten features our conversation with humanoid robot Pepper who is currently on display at the National Communication Museum in Hawthorn.Restored for their current exhibition ‘Friend’, we asked Pepper many pressing questions including if robots will take over the world…

Art Smitten is joined by Amy Spiers in this episode to discuss the ‘Archives Are Hot! Artists in the Archive’ program developed by Next Wave in collaboration with CAST, Saluhan and An.Other Collective. Our presenter Tyra will also be sharing a review of Love Serenade (1996) directed by Shirley Barrett

In this episode of Art Smitten, we are fortunate to be joined by artist Aisha Hara who recently had an exhibition at CAVES

For our first episode of season 4, the team is so excited to be speaking with two of the artists featured in KINGS current exhibition program. Ayah Zakout and Ebony Maurice-Wilmott joined us to share insights about their art practices and the works featured within their exhibitions. @ayahzakout.jpeg @ebony_maurice.wilmott @kingsartistrun Season 4 of Art Smitten begins this Monday from 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm @synmedia

We are dishing up a real treat for you all

We are joined by photographer, artist and co-founder of the Pacific Centre for Photographic Arts Aishah Kenton in this episode of Art Smitten. Listen to hear all about the workshops and programs that PCPA facilitate along with Aishah’s own photographic art practice! In the second half of the show, the team review films seen in the final weeks of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) for 2025. Movies covered include Sorry, Baby (dir. Eva Victor), Peter Hujar's Day (dir. Ira Sachs) and Urchin (dir. Harris Dickinson). Art Smitten airs on SYN 90.7fm @synmedia from 3-5pm on Mondays

Listen to our conversation with Kate Barber, cofounder of Spring1883, an art fair hosted inside the iconic Hotel Windsor on Spring Street

Tune in to hear an interview with Saluhan Collective collaborators MJ Flamiano and Catherine Ortega-Sandow about their current curatorial project Fugitive Archives!!