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What we do
Research
We identify mainstream narratives of AI, challenge those that don’t serve us, and imagine alternatives. Our research is guided by decolonial, intersectional, feminist, and participatory approaches. These methods help us surface perspectives often overlooked, question who gets to shape AI, and collectively build knowledge with the people most affected by it.
Over the years, our research has taken many forms.
8-month cross-disciplinary project reimagining AI beyond Silicon Valley ideologies through community sessions, web-woven essays, Miro boards, and zines.
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Digital gardens, where we seed, weed, and harvest emerging ideas.
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6-month creative residency, which paired creative technologists with animators, to research emerging creative workflows in AIxAnimation.
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Show & Tell with 8 makers, who told us how they built their own Small AI.
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Public session for 80 people to air their interests or grievances with mainstream narratives of AI.
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What we do
Make
We believe theory is only as good as its application in practice. So, following what Ruha Benjamin once said,
“Remember to imagine and craft the world you cannot live without, just as you dismantle the ones you cannot live within” - Ruha Benjamin
We make alternative narratives of AI. Always in the open, together with others, we test our ideas to generate applied knowledge – because it takes many hands to build new worlds.
Since 2019, we’ve made many things.
Interactive installation Prompt Your Person, enabling 1,800+ people to interact with image generators and reflect on bias.
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Hundreds of images of AI
(none of them blue brains or cascading walls of code), used in hundreds of media outlets, research publications, events, and more.
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Playbook
on how to create better images of AI, which won not but two (!) Lovie Awards..
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20+ prototypes of Feminist UX of AI
cited in research papers and reports across industries.
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What we do
Educate
We believe that AI isn't as complicated as it’s made out to be. Much of the language around AI deliberately obscures how it works, making it difficult (or even impossible) for most of us to understand, question, or scrutinize its mechanisms.
That’s why we focus on critical AI literacy. The more people understand how AI works and how it’s made, the better we can shape it to serve all of us. We share what we learn and make this knowledge accessible to everyone because we learn together, or not at all – it’s the only way we can build the worlds we deserve.
We’re proud
to say that:
137
Sessions we've
collectively hosted
12k+
People reached
across 19 countries.
78
Educators using
our resources
across...
27
different universities
and vocational
courses.
Over the years, our educational programs have met people where they are, we’ve made many things.
WeTransfer to educate their ___k workforce on the fundamentals of critical AI.
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Impact Hub to help them spot AI bias and data discrimination in their products and services.
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Ars Electronica to deconstruct the tropes of AI imagery and make better images of AI.
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Ars Electronica to deconstruct the tropes of AI imagery and make better images of AI.
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DPG to show media makers how to integrate AI mindfully into their creative workflows.
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