The Jewish futurism Lab

Mike Wirth

The Jewish futurism Lab: Torah, Tech, Tomorrow is a creative audio laboratory where Jewish tradition meets design, technology, and speculative imagination. Host Mike Wirth explores Torah, myth, ritual, art history, and emerging tools like AI to prototype Jewish futures rooted in ethics, dignity, and meaning. New episodes blend story, studio practice, and future-thinking, with companion visuals and essays at mikewirthart.com.

Episodes

  1. 6D AGO

    Episode 5: The Jewish Art of Alex Woz

    What does it mean to build a Jewish future through scissors, glue, and pixels? In this episode, I sit down with collage artist Alex Woz, who I met at the Jerusalem Biennale. We talk about the graphic design industry, swap stories about our favorite Jewish artists, and get honest about why we make what we […]

    1h 9m

  2. FEB 6

    Episode 4: Shabbat Against The Machine

    What happens when flow has no boundaries? In Episode 4 of The Jewish Futurism Lab, I explore how creativity without limits turns into exhaustion, addiction, or production without reflection. This episode introduces Shabbat not just as religious practice, but as a design principle: a refusal built into time that prevents work from consuming the people […]

    12 min

  3. FEB 1

    Episode 3: Practicing Jewish futurism

    In this episode, I move from defining Jewish Futurism to actually doing it. What does it look like to practice Jewish Futurism in your creative work, your teaching, your community building, or your daily life? How do Jewish texts, rituals, and patterns of thought become tools for imagining futures rather than artifacts of the past? […]

    20 min

  4. JAN 25

    Episode 2: Jews Have Always Been futurists

    In this episode, I make the case that Jewish futurism isn’t new at all. Long before rockets, algorithms, or AI, Jewish tradition was already asking future-oriented questions about survival, ethics, memory, and change. From Noah and Enoch to Babel, Joseph, exile, and Shabbat, this episode traces how Torah stories are structured around anticipating disruption, redesigning […]

    17 min

  5. JAN 20

    Episode 1: Welcome to The Jewish futurism Lab: Torah, Tech, Tomorrow

    In this first episode, I’m introducing The Jewish futurism Lab and what this podcast is here to build: a space where Torah learning, creative practice, and emerging technology meet. I’ll share a quick bit about who I am and why I’m drawn to Jewish futurism, then lay out what you can expect in future episodes, […]

    14 min
  • 5 Episodes

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About

The Jewish futurism Lab: Torah, Tech, Tomorrow is a creative audio laboratory where Jewish tradition meets design, technology, and speculative imagination. Host Mike Wirth explores Torah, myth, ritual, art history, and emerging tools like AI to prototype Jewish futures rooted in ethics, dignity, and meaning. New episodes blend story, studio practice, and future-thinking, with companion visuals and essays at mikewirthart.com.

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  • Creator
    Mike Wirth
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    5
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Mike Wirth Art, Inc.
  • Show Website
    The Jewish futurism Lab