Can we use the past to rewrite our current scripts? Can data offer a way out from historic or current biases - in ourselves and others? And how do we decipher the truth in the information we do receive?

In our Inside CHF podcast, we invite you to engage with big questions related to events and trends around you, at home or in your workplace.

CHF's Year of Graphic! will explore the intersection of art, technology, social change and identity — a big touchstone throughout our Fall Festival. To help stimulate your thinking, here's a few bite-size recordings from CHF’s media archive, including psychologist Beverly Daniel Tatum, interdisciplinary artist LaToya Ruby Frazier, and poet Danez Smith.

Music is "Human Factor" by Split Phase

Beverly Daniel Tatum

"The visibility of it makes it hard to deny; the reality of differential treatment. Right? At the same time, because we’ve seen so many of them, you do get inured to it. And yet, I do think that it’s better to know than not know. It’s better to document than not document."

Watch Beverly Daniel Tatum's interview at Fall Fest 2015

Ricardo Gamboa

"I was reading historical texts from 500 years ago and looking at how the logic underpinning the way that we think, even what we know how to imagine had a root in colonization and scarily not that evolved from that moment, right?"

Watch Riccardo Gamboa's interview at Fall Fest 2016

John Chenney-Lippold

"So Big data is this kind of fetishized object, because it is supposedly everything. Data is the ability to give a true description of our reality. That data produces truth. And increasingly, more data produces more truth. And if you have all of the data, you ostensibly have all of the truth, right?"

Watch John Chenney Lippold's interview at Fall Fest 2015

Danez Smith

"Let’s make a movie called... Dinosaurs: In the Hood. Jurassic Park meets Friday meets the Pursuit of Happiness."

Watch Danez Smith's performance and interview at Fall Fest 2016