What we do
We operate by three interconnected modes which support and inform one another, shaping the new worlds we’re building together. Our research informs what we make, revealing new avenues of research. Education puts what we learn into practice, out in the wild. Holding all of it together is our community, in which we are participants, not stewards: the force that grounds us and makes our work possible.
We identify dominant narratives of AI, challenge those that don’t serve us, and out-imagine the tech industry’s current order as a way of finding alternatives.
Our research is guided by decolonial, intersectional, feminist, and participatory approaches. These methods help us surface perspectives often overlooked, and question who gets to shape AI.
8-month cross-disciplinary project reimagining AI beyond Silicon Valley ideologies through community sessions, web-woven essays, Miro boards, and zines.
Digital gardens, where we seed, weed, and harvest emerging ideas.
6-month creative residency, which paired creative technologists with animators, to research emerging creative workflows in AIxAnimation.
Show & Tell with 8 makers, who told us how they built their own Small AI.
Public session for 80 people to air their interests or grievances with mainstream narratives of AI.
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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”
… we make things that invite other people into our world, based on our collective imagination, experimentation, and radical curiosity. We make alternative narratives of AI: Always in the open, as a community. (Theory is only as good as evidence which supports it!)
Because it takes many hands to build new worlds.
Interactive installation Prompt Your Person, enabling 1,800+ people to interact with image generators and reflect on bias.
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.
Playbook
on how to create better images of AI, which won not one but two (!) Lovie Awards.
20+ prototypes of Feminist UX of AI
cited in research papers and reports across industries.
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WeTransfer to educate their workforce on the fundamentals of critical AI.
Impact Hub to help them spot AI bias and data discrimination in their products and services.
Ars Electronica to deconstruct the tropes of AI imagery and make better images of AI.
V2 to curate speakers for their 3-day program, Technologies of Solidarity, in collaboration with the Engage festival.
V2 to curate speakers for their 3-day program, Technologies of Solidarity, in collaboration with the Engage festival.
DPG to show media makers how to integrate AI mindfully into their creative workflows.