Podcast

The Algorithm Wants a Brand. Your Soul Wants Chaos. by Edgar Fabián Frías

If you’ve ever felt like the internet wants you to compress your entire creative life into a neat niche or brand, this episode is for you. In The Algorithm Wants a Brand. Your Soul Wants Chaos, Edgar Fabián Frías sits down with artist and musician Colin Frangicetto of Circa Survive to talk about what happens when artists refuse to be flattened.

They dive into Colin’s many personas—ADHD, SpaceCase, ColinCosmic—and how monikers, collage, abstraction, and an AuDHD brain have helped him build a practice that is gloriously resistant to genres and algorithms. Along the way, they explore fear of being forgotten, psychedelic surrender, capitalism fatigue, and why your complexity might actually be the most powerful part of your art.

If you’re a multi-passionate artist, witch, or creative who feels “too much” or “too weird” for the feed, this conversation offers a spell of permission to stay vast, chaotic, and deeply yourself.

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Performing Knowledge in the Age of the Digital Trickster by Edgar Fabián Frías

How do institutions feel in your body? In this reflection on their CAA Conversations podcast series, multidisciplinary artist and educators Edgar Fabián Frías and Lineadeluz explore pedagogy as performance, institutional power, and the digital as a slippery, glitchy trickster technology. Writing from a queer, Indigenous, and brujx perspectives, they share how self‑instituted projects like MOMMM and the Selfie Institute for Selfie Studies reimagine what institutions can be. The post invites readers to watch the YouTube episodes or listen to the podcast as a companion to the text.

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