​​ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

​We invite you to come and investigate new ways of thinking about technology, to break away from scientific reasoning and instead explore alternative ways of imagining, understanding, and engaging with AI.

​In the workshop we will make a zine together where we create new lens of looking at AI by taking inspiration from magic, divination, folklore, and other types of seemingly ‘illegitimate’ arcane knowledges and practices. With this we will both challenge normative ways of thinking about and making AI, and suggest possible alternatives.

​So come join us in creating a collection of collages, comics, stories, poems, essays and anything else that comes to mind when imagining Esoteric - meaning enchanted, disenchanted, alternative, fresh, and different, and new - AI technologies.

​WHO IS THIS FOR?
No technical knowledge, art skills, or subject-matter expertise is needed. Just bring yourself and your unique point-of-view.

​WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING
All zine-making supplies will be provided, but you can always bring your own too! If you want to make a digital collage or other contribution? Bring your own device along!

​LANGUAGE
English

​PLEASE NOTE
There is a max capacity of 20 people for this session. If you can no longer attend, please change your RSVP so other someone else might take your place.

​ABOUT SLOW AI PROJECT

​​​​In this project, 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. 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.

​​​​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.

​​​​Follow this page to stay up-to-date on Slow AI. Slow AI is made possible by Stimuleringsfonds <3

​🔮 RESEARCH LEAD ESOTERIC AI: NATALIA STANUSCH

​Natalia is a PhD candidate at ASCA, University of Amsterdam and a Research Lead for Slow AI project at AIxDesign. Natalia works at a crossroad of critical data and algorithm studies, science and technology studies, digital visual culture, and art history.

​​🧚 HOST: KARLA ZAVALA BARREDA

​Karla is a researcher, designer, and digital project manager from Peru currently doing her PhD in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

​​🧚 HOST: ADRIAAN ODENDAAL

​Adriaan is a multimedia designer from South Africa currently doing his PhD in the societal impact of AI at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

​​ABOUT INTERNET TEAPOT

​internet teapot is a Rotterdam-based collaboration between Karla Zavala Barreda and Adriaan Odendaal. Their work focuses on speculative and critical design projects and research and stems from a shared interests in digital culture, critical theory, and the belief that design can be used in a socially transformative way.

​​ABOUT AIxDESIGN

​​​​AIxDESIGN (AIxD) is a global community of designers, researchers, creative technologists, and activists using AI in pursuit of creativity, justice and joy and living lab exploring participatory, slow, and more-than-corporate AI. Learn more at aixdesign.co.

​​ABOUT ROODKAPJE

​Roodkapje is a communal living-room, project space & underground laboratory for art, music & food. It's a bright, creative space, only a 3-min walk from the Rotterdam Central Station, and has a bar with drinks and snacks. Learn more at roodkapje.org and see you there! <3