How to apply

Email us before end of day Sunday, Feb 11 at [email protected] with the subject: [YOUR NAME] / [THEME NAME] / Slow AI Application

Please include the following information:

• A little about yourself
• Your interest in your theme of choice – How you might push / build on our (working) definition for the theme? What are three (3) questions you’d like to explore?
• References to support your proposed research if you have them – hyperlinks to existing work or projects (your own or others’).

Your response can come as a written email, a short video, and/or moodboard; whatever best suits your brain. If you’re in the AIxD Slack, give Nadia a little heads-up there so we can look out for it :) Looking forward to hear from you!

UPDATE: Selected applicants can expect a response by … Friday Feb 17

About Slow AI Project

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Slow AI - Seeding alternative AI narratives

Inspired by the counter-movements of slow fashion and slow food, this project will investigate three emerging AI counter-narratives –Small AI 🐜, Ancestral AI 🐚, and Esoteric AI 🔮 – and explore what it might look like to incorporate them in our everyday practice. We will interrogate and publish critical AI discourse in a format that makes sense to us and our practices, namely zines and creative technology installations, and at project end we will publish an anthology – a hot compost pile of miro boards, zines, and art that we hope sparks new ways to think and talk about AI.

URL: Public Project Page + Miro Board

TIME: 01 - 10/2024

TEAM: Nadia Piet (Research + Creative Lead), Ploipailin Flynn (Project Lead), Dominika Čupková (Comms Lead), Nadia Nadesan (Research Lead, Small AI), Natalia Stanusch (Research Lead, Esoteric AI), Gustavo Nogueira de Menezes (Research Lead, Ancestral AI), Internet Teapot (zine partner)

FUNDING: Stimuleringsfonds Creative Industries + currently looking for additional co-funding

Collage made with “Scrap Narratives Tool” by Marina Cardoso for Slow AI project

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Introducing the 3 themes

Theme 1 / Small AI 🐜

Theme 2 / Ancestral AI 🐚

Theme 3 / Esoteric AI 🧞‍♂️

For more background on where these themes came from and additional provocations and input around each, you can browse this page and the accompanying Miro board from the community session where we seeded, sensed, and scoped out a handful of themes and formed the foundation for this final selection.

https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVN4S9r4Q=/?moveToWidget=3458764576567244917&cot=14