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After months of deep research, collective zine-making sessions, and beautiful artist collaborations, the Slow AI works are finally emerging above ground and being released into the wide, wild world. We're so excited to be sharing a total of 9 releases with you—3 zines, 3 artworks, and 3 research chapters across the Esoteric AI, Small AI, and Ancestral AI themes. And because we can't help ourselves, we've got a few surprise bonus items coming later, too. Here's what's available now! ;)
The first issue in the Slow AI Series 🌙 "[Dis]enchantment: A zine about Esoteric AI" 🌙 summons 54 pages of magic and technology, divination practices, folklore, and other arcane ways of knowing. Join us as we disenchant and then re-enchant our relationship with algorithmic systems.
The zine is now LIVE on Metalabel! Download it for free or pay-what-you-can. OR! Pre-order the printed collection – all three zines delivered straight to your door → aixdesign.metalabel.com/esoteric-ai-zine 🧛
This zine is a hot compost pile of creative contributions from our Esoteric AI Zine-making Workshop hosted at Roodkapje Rotterdam.
BIRD by Gaston Welisch is an interactive, web-based artwork exploring how AI-driven pattern recognition mirrors and diverges from historical predictive practices, like Roman augury 🏛️🐦⬛
With BIRD, users collaborate with an AI augur to interpret bird patterns in a live webcam feed to answer whatever questions you might have. This work invites you to interrogate how we assign meaning to observed patterns and how these interpretations shape our decisions 🪶🔮🪿
Practice your augury skills and read today's data-driven fortune at aixdesign.co/posts/bird 🥠
