Luis Hernandez

The Weekly Catch was a half-hour show I hosted, featuring the work of our local journalists and bringing you more depth on the most important stories of the week.

Every week on The Weekly Catch I used to host a series of conversations with lawmakers, reporters, business owners, and a slew of folks from all over the region about all sorts of topics.

Like the conversation we had with student activists at Brown over the Pro-Palestine encampment.

I spoke with student negotiator, Isabella Garo, and journalist from the Brown Daily Herald, Charlie Clynes

We spoke with RISD lecturer and digital artist Griffin Smith about how he brings artificial intelligence to art classes.

Well, the great middle class of the art world is either artists working freelance for small contracts, or designers working in teams of five or ten, and that’s going to disappear. Freelance artists who can get paid ten dollars to make a little doodle aren’t in as high demand anymore because of AI. And a team of 10 designers working on a project together, a team of 2 or 3 people can do the same amount of work if they’re powered by AI. So, we’re gonna see, I fear, a sort of vanishing of a middle class of artists.

Then there were times when we got to talk to local artists and musicians about their craft, like our studio session with Providence-based “hot jazz” band Paper Moon.

We spoke with guitarists John Birt and Dylan Harley, who describe the band’s music as a kind of time travel back to the sounds of early jazz and artists like Django Reinhardt.

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