Deondre Davis
in conversation with Matt Connors
May 19, 2026

1. Halloween Parade, Lou Reed, 1989
   
2. The City Is Mine, JAŸ-Z feat. Blackstreet, 1997
   
3. Hired Gun, Bad Brains, 1986
   
4. Somebody Else's World - a.k.a. Somebody Else's Idea, Sun Ra, 1970
   
5. Big City, Merle Haggard, 1981
   
6. Priestess, Cass McCombs, 2025
   
7. Only When I'm Dreaming, Minnie Riperton, 1970
   
8. Get Innocuous! LCD Soundsystem, 2007
   
9. The Snakes Crawl at Night, Charley Pride, 1966
   
10. Euro Child, Massive Attack feat. Tricky, 1994
    
11. In My Room, Yazoo, 1982
    
12. hey now, Kendrick Lamar feat. Dody6, 2024
    
13. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Gil Scott-Heron, 1971
    
14. That's Us/Wild Combination, Arthur Russell, 2000
    
15. TU SANCHO, Fuerza Regida, 2025
    
16. D’Ombres, Jean-Marie Mercimek, 2025
    
17. Prince of Peace, Pharoah Sanders, 2025
    
18. Open Tent, TRiigroup, 2021

Deondre Davis (b.1991, Chicago) is a self-taught painter and object maker who lives in Los Angeles California.

Matt Connors is an artist and publisher who lives and works between New York and Los Angeles.

Rebecca Cleman
April 21, 2026

This week we welcome the amazing Rebecca Cleman, a writer and the director of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) in New York City. Born in Flagstaff, Arizona the same year that VCRs came on the consumer market, Cleman has an abiding interest in the mythologies of the American West and the public use of video recording.

Cleman discusses the legacy of EAI, a nonprofit founded in 1971 by the visionary gallerist Howard Wise to encourage the use of video technology by artists. We talk about the changing role of EAI in a world where video has become ubiquitous and how this historically important institution is navigating the continual evolution of technology, from video cassettes to streaming, from cable access TV to YouTube and beyond.

Cleman’s audio selections range from Ennio Morricone and the Clash to George Carlin and Lily Tomlin. Comedy and the Spaghetti Western are perfect foils for her interest in artists who can take things apart and expose narratives and histories that are hidden, people like Jaime Davidovich, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, Robert Buck, Cory Arcangel, and Nancy Holt.

We also talk about “Yo! MTV Raps”, horror movies, Marshall McLuhan, and her childhood growing up in a very musical family in the desert wanting nothing more than to play ice hockey. A great show!

Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time.

1. The Ecstasy Of Gold, Ennio Morricone, 1967
   
2. Why Am I so Tired All the Time? Eggs, 1994
   
3. Oscillations, Silver Apples, 1968
   
4. Advertising, George Carlin
   
5. Don't Believe The Hype, Public Enemy, 1988
   
6. Potholes in My Lawn, De La Soul, 1989
   
7. Mr. Veedle (Live At The Ice House,) Lily Tomlin, 1971
   
8. Clampdown, The Clash, 1979
   
9. Lonesome, On'ry and Mean, Waylon Jennings, 1973
10. Egg Man, Beastie Boys, 1989
11. Big Mess, DEVO, 1982
12. Highway Star, Deep Purple, 1972
13. Hey Jane Mansfield Superstar, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, 1989
14. Backslider, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, 2010
15. Gasoline, Britney Spears, 2011
16. Candy's Room, Bruce Springsteen, 1978
17. Pine Box Derby, Beat Happening, 1992
18. No Particular Place To Go, Chuck Berry, 1964
19. Teen Angel, Mark Dinning, 2021
20. The Day The Earth Stood Still, Bernard Herrmann, 1951

Rebecca Cleman (b. 1975, Flagstaff Arizona) is a writer and the director of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI). She was raised by a pianist mother and a composer father who kept a slim but choice selection of rock-n-roll albums within their prodigious collection of classical music, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, and the American Graffiti soundtrack were as formative as Rossini, Bach, and Bartók.

Professionally, Rebecca has enjoyed a long career at EAI, a leading distributor and archive of artists' videos from the 1960s to the present, which includes videos by previous Selection Committee guests Robert Buck, Michael Smith, Jake Brush, and Phyllis Baldino. She has published essays on video art and film, with a focus on infrastructure and artists television, and programmed many screenings and curated a few exhibitions, including VHS: The Exhibition at Franklin Street Works and, with Alex Klein, Broadcasting: EAI at ICA. Recently, she co-edited The New Television: Video After Television with Rachel Churner and Tyler Maxin, published by no place press.

Highways, hot rods, and hockey are particular non-professional subjects of interest.

April 7, 2026
Enter the Nothing: Marches, Dirges, and Drones

A music-only episode showcasing a Nate Heiges mixtape from 2019.

1. Eye in the Wall, Perfume Genius, 2019
   
2. The Devil's Mirror, Dirty Art Club, 2013
   
3. What's Not Mine, Cate Le Bon, 2016
   
4. Magnifique, Ratatat, 2015
   
5. Sing, Blur, 1991
   
6. Sketch for Summer, The Durutti Column, 1979
   
7. Battery Point, Beak>, 2009
   
8. Last Trains Come and Gone, Cindy Lee, 2015 
   
9. Dimanche (feat. Bertrand Belin), The Limiñanas, 2018
   
10. Transparent Things, Fujiya & Miyagi, 2006
    
11. Balloon Ranger - Clavis Remix, Ane Brun, 2019
    
12. Soft, Lemon Jelly, 2003
    
13. Time Moves Slow feat. Samuel T. Herring, BADBADNOTGOOD, 2016
    
14. i ain't scared of no devil, Jitwam, dj godfrey ho, 2017
    
15. Memory Arc, Rival Consoles, 2018
    
16. Yumeji's Theme - Theme from 'in the Mood for Love', Shigeru Umebayashi, 2013
    
17. I Trawl the Megahertz, Prefab Sprout, 2003
18. Starless and Bible Black, The Stan Tracey Quartet, 2010

Matlok Griffiths in conversation with B. Wurtz
March 10, 2026

For this episode of the Selection Committee Radio Show, former guest B. Wurtz joins me in conversation with Matlok Griffiths, an artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Both artist-musicians, the two first became acquainted when Griffiths approached Wurtz to do a book project with his imprint Tutto. This began an ongoing conversation about art and music between the two that we get to join.

Griffiths’ wonderful exhibition “And My Unnamed Corners” recently closed at Gordon Robichaux in New York City. The show featured a selection of modestly scaled paintings on sculptural canvases as well as a series of gouache paintings on crossword puzzles. We discuss the New York connection to this work—in 2016 Griffiths spent four months in the city doing a mentorship with painter Stanley Whitney. He began picking up free newspapers and using the crossword puzzles as a found grid to make gouache paintings. Through time and inspiration these crossword paintings found new form in the sculptural canvases.

The conversation also touches on his ceramic practice which began when a neighbor gave his family a bag of clay during Melbourne’s intense Covid lockdown. Inspired by a figure his daughter made of a girl sitting bolt upright in bed, Griffiths created an entire body of work that is a meditation on that strange time.

Throughout the program, Griffiths shares a semi-autobiographical set of songs including selections from his own band, Big Supermarket, formed with his wife Katrina and his friend Travis.

This three-way conversation is a window into a practice that is remarkably open to opportunities, collaborations, and the unexpected. It was a pleasure to spend the afternoon with Griffiths and Wurtz!

Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time.

1. Old News, Big Supermarket, 2019
   
2. The Boy In the Bubble, Paul Simon, 1986
   
3. Blue Flowers, Dr. Octagon, 1996
   
4. Black Death, Big Supermarket, 2019
   
5. Lost Mi Love, Yellowman, 1982
   
6. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others, The Smiths, 1986
   
7. Frenz, The Fall, 1988
   
8. Loose Fit, Happy Mondays, 1999
   
9. Desire As, Prefab Sprout, 1985
   
10. Waterloo Sunset, The Kinks, 1967
    
11. Shadazz, Suicide, 1999
    
12. Diary of a Young Man, Television Personalities, 1981
    
13. Bottles, Samizdat & Michael J. Blood, 2023
14. Rinsed, Dean Blunt & TYSON, 2023
15. Peter, Big Supermarket, 2019
16. Big Jean, Big Supermarket, 2019

Matlok Griffiths (b. 1983, Perth, Australia) is an artist and occasional musician who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. He has presented solo and two-person exhibitions at Sutton Gallery, Melbourne (2025), Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney (2022, 2019, 2107, 2016), and ReadingRoom, Melbourne (2024, 2022, 2018). His work has been featured in numerous group shows, including at Wolford House, Los Angeles (curated by Nichole Caruso-Siebers, 2024) and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2023).
In 2016, Griffiths completed a four-month mentorship with artist Stanley Whitney through the support of a Skills and Development Grant awarded by the Australia Council for the Arts (now Creative Australia). His work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and Artbank, Australia. In 2018, Griffiths released a music album, 1800, with his collaborators (Katrina Griffiths and Travis MacDonald) under the name Big Supermaket.

Born 1948 in Pasadena, California, B. Wurtz is best known for his playful and compelling sculptures constructed from discarded materials like produce packaging, construction lumber, and plastic bags. He received a BA from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, in 1980. The sculptor and painter currently lives and works in New York, New York.
B. Wurtz's repurposing of everyday flotsam into joyous, humorous, and beautiful objects undermine grand artistic gesture while elevating the commonplace. The artist's transformative amalgams of found materials have tended to coalesce around the subjects of "sleeping, eating, and keeping warm"—the foundational human needs named in his 1973 drawing Three Important Things. While his sculptures are often modest in scale, in 2018, the artist created his now iconic Kitchen Trees for the New York City Public Art Fund, transforming City Hall Park with towering columns of colorful colanders exploding with plastic fruit.
Wurtz has been the subject of over 52 solo exhibitions at prestigious venues including: Feature Inc. (1987, 1991, 1992, 2001, 2003, 2006, New York); Gallery 400 (2000, Chicago); White Flag Projects (2012, St. Louis); Kunstverein (2015, Freiburg, Germany); and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, (2015, Ridgefield, Connecticut). In 2015, the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom mounted a retrospective exhibition of the artist's work that traveled to La Casa Encendida, Madrid through 2016. In 2018, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles mounted a major solo exhibition of his work, This Has No Name.
His work has also been included in over 174 group exhibitions including: Pandora's Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the MCA Collection (2011, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago); Building Blocks: Contemporary Works from the Collection (2011, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence); and Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s (2018, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC).