New Models

Caroline Busta, Lil Internet

Booking Overview

An interview-led show focused on art, technology, media theory, and networked culture, with occasional solo episodes and external conversations featuring artists and cultural commentators. Credible pitches include contemporary artists, digital-culture researchers, media theorists, and critics with notable projects or exhibitions; booking is likely high difficulty because the show favors established, intellectually distinctive guests working at the intersection of art and technology.

Metrics

Episodes: 147

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 1.4k subscribers

Instagram: 19.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

desk@newmodels.io

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Host

Caroline Busta - Art writer, editor, and co-host of New Models.

Lil Internet - Artist and co-host of New Models.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Contemporary artists, media theorists, digital-culture researchers, and technology critics with a distinctive body of work and demonstrated expertise in the relationship between technology, politics, and culture.

Required Achievements:

Notable exhibitions or creative projects, Published critical research or commentary, Recognized expertise in digital culture, media, or technology, Participation in influential cultural institutions or platforms

Recent Guest Discussions

Simon Denny - Defense Technology Companies, Branding, Aesthetics, Italian Futurism, Neoclassicism, And The Cultural Framing Of Militarism.

Joshua Citarella - The Online Marketplace Of Ideas, Exhibition-making, Protocol Layers, And The Rules Governing How Culture Is Created And Transmitted.

Recent Topics

Art, Media Theory, Networked Culture, Technology, Internet

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

New Models

Preview | NM Dispatch: America Diaries (Lil Internet) - August 2026

August 18, 2026

Every summer, we return to the land of our youth, the Mid-Atlantic USA and, as has become tradition, relay our impressions of it to you. With this episode, @Lilinternet unpacks the 36 hours he spent just trying to get to the States, navigating a labyrinth of apps, regulations, platforms, self-ordering kiosks, loyalty programs, waitlists, dynamic pricing, seat assignments, Star Alliances and accelerating arches in an atmosphere defined by algorithms.

Preview | NM 94: Simon Denny on defense tech's aesthetic turn (2026)

July 23, 2026

This is a preview | For full audio and show notes plus extras, subscribe via https://patreon.com/newmodels or https://newmodels.substack.com _ Artist Simon Denny returns to New Models to discuss the American defense tech sector's newfound dedication to aesthetics. Distilling the branding languages of companies like a16z, Palantir, and Anduril—which draw heavily on Italian Futurism, return-to-order neoclassicism, and the graphic idiom of modernist institutions—Denny shows techno-libertarian ...

Preview | NM Content Today: Taste (2026)

July 06, 2026

This is a preview | For full audio and show notes plus extras, subscribe via https://patreon.com/newmodels or https://newmodels.substack.com _ When Enlightenment-era scholars taxonomized humankind, they chose homo sapiens, in part because of what they observed as a uniquely human aptitude for “taste.” [“Taste” comes from the Latin taxare (to handle, to assess) – an intensive form of tangere (to touch). It is a term that via vulgar Latin blended with gustare (to taste, to try) to express the...

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