​ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

​Is AI too big? And does the tech industry’s obsession with scalability and large language models create more problems than it solves? With this workshop we ask: what would happen to AI if we start to think small instead?

​In the workshop we will make a zine together where we create alternative visions for AI by thinking small instead of big, centering our perspectives instead of Big Tech’s, and prioritizing care instead of profit.

​You are invited to come and create collages, comics, stories, poems, essays and anything else that comes to mind when imagining small 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.

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​​​🐜 SMALL AI w/ NADIA NADESAN

​​​Nadia Nadesan is the research lead for the Small AI stream. Nadia is a researcher, illustrator, facilitator, urbanist, and technologist. Her work focuses on civic technology, data governance, and public space..

​​🧚 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.