​Join us for a dialogue featuring artist and designer, Linda Dounia Rebeiz, and researcher and designer, Vera van der Burg, as we dive deep into the realm of small AI.

​​ABOUT THE SESSION

​We will challenge conventional views by exploring AI's potential as a provocative tool for introspection and critical reflection. How does AI shift in shape and form when infused with unique values, perspectives, geographies, and cultural landscapes. Rather than innovating with vast datasets, we'll explore data sets shaped by local, situated and personal aesthetics. What possibilities arise around subjective realities? How might we then inform those realities with the urgency of environmental crises?

​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

​​Nadia Nadesan is the research lead for the Small AI stream. Nadia is a fellow at Open Future and a collaborator at Platoniq with experience as a researcher, illustrator, facilitator, urbanist, and technologist. Her work focuses on civic technology, data governance, and public space. As a founder of Design Justice Mediterranea, She is actively involved in creating collective spaces of resistance, knowledge sharing, and community. She has worked as a researcher under Akwugo Emejulu on the project ‘To Exist is to Resist’. Her latest project with Algorights at the Jornadas DAR developed citizen modes of participation in AI governance facilitating a citizen assembly around the AI Act in Europe. Her research currently focuses on the materiality of artificial intelligence and frictions where technology encounters local sociopolitical and cultural contexts. She enjoys projects and networks that encourage re-learning, reorienting, and reclaiming narratives of who and why we are, especially how we tech and eat.

​🧚 GUEST: LINDA DOUNIA REBEIZ

​Linda Dounia Rebeiz works with speculative archiving working with 'excluded ways of being' and developing AI models that explore 'what we have lost.' In 2023 Linda was recognised for her work on TIME100's list of most influential people in AI for her work 'Once Upon a Garden'.

​🧚 GUEST: VERA VAN DER BURG

​Vera van der Burg's work combines practical design with scholarly investigation, exploring AI's role in the creative process. She's presented at events like Dutch Design Week and nd Salone del Mobile in Milan.

​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.

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