HELP US WIN A GOLDEN MEDAL 🎖️
Archival Images of AI playbook just got nominated as a finalist for the Lovie Awards in the Art, Culture & Heritage category! 🎪
Cast your vote→ lnkd.in/dg2jjhgy (vote.lovieawards.com → Category: Beyond / Art, Culture & Heritage → Archival Images of AI)
Ok this is the cutest conference I’ve ever seen.
🫵 Will you help us spread the word about AIxDESIGN Festival? 🫵
🏉 We're throwing our first-ever festival and need your help reaching the people it's made for! > bit.ly/aixd-festiva...
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More to read 🐜 “Small AI Chapter” is out now! 🔗 Zoom into the full chapter on our website → aixdesign.co/posts/small-...
“AI for Ants: A zine about Small AI” is LIVE now on @metalabel.bsky.social + the AIxD website🎱🔮
Download it for free or pay-what-you-can. OR! Pre-order the printed collection – all three zines delivered straight to your door. Dive into a little weekend digital rest. → 🔗 bit.ly/4iP3L7j
RELEASE ALERT 🚨 Make-your-own-small AI tutorials are live.
Project D33pthr0at by Gabriella Garcia & Arnab Chakravarty explored the possibilities of applied Small AI, with a specific focus on creating resources for sex workers facing censorship and misrepresentation in mainstream AI platforms.
🌈 CALLING ALL AI HOTTIES, HATERS, WEIRDOS & WHISPERERS 🌈
🐌 The rumours are true... we're inviting submissions for the AIxDESIGN Festival and the open call is now LIVE! 🐌🐌
⏰ Round #2: Deadline April 6th, 2025 ← we are now here 📍
🔗 More info and how to apply → bit.ly/aixd-festiva...
📣 Want to be part of the festival magic from the inside? 📣
We’re assembling a dream team to help organize, host, document, and celebrate the AIxDESIGN Festival (May 1-3, 2025, Amsterdam).
More info + how to apply here → 🔗 bit.ly/aixd-festival-open-calls
🎟️ TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE 🎟️
🎪 AIxD Festival: On Slow AI 🎪 May 1-3 in Amsterdam
Imagine a cosy space to deconstruct mainstream AI stories, dream up new ones, and figure out how we make them real. It will be a fever dream of talks, workshops, an art exhibition, and film screening → 🔗 lu.ma/yiaccf39
It's Monday, time to repeat the week again but before you do... ✨ On a scale of esoteric Sun, how do you feel today after reading our chapter on Esoteric AI? 🌞
And in case the horrors of Capitalism persisted, take a moment to vibe and summon the full chapter → 🔗 lnkd.in/gKE-HRfq 🔮
And remember – you can see Nat and her work for yourself at the :circus_tent: AIxD Festival 🎪 this May 1-3, at Loods6 in Amsterdam (tix are available now at lu.ma/yiaccf39)!
This chapter is the manifestation of Natalia and the team’s past 12 months of research into Esoteric AI ⏳ A labour of love, we’d love to hear your thoughts!
🎞️ DREAM TEAM: Sofia Vieira, Kaashvi Kothari, @nataliastanusch.bsky.social , Ploipailin Flynn, @nadiapiet.bsky.social
In this Slow AI Chapter, we explore how AI predictions occupy a fascinating space between the rational and the inexplicable—inviting us to re-enchant our relationship with algorithmic systems.
RELEASE ALERT 🚨 (3/9) “Esoteric AI: To disenchant the enchanted, and enchant the disenchanted” chapter is out now! 🔗 Summon the full chapter on our website → lnkd.in/gKE-HRfq 🧛
✨ and, as part of Esoteric AI @aixdesign.bsky.social , I also talked about Gaston Welisch's BIRD: Bird Informed Remote Divination art research project 🐦⬛ → aixdesign.co/posts/bird 4/4
✨I also discussed Esoteric AI @aixdesign.bsky.social where we bring together magic, history, technology, and art, so I mentioned both our recent zine publication (big credits to internet teapot 🫖 → aixdesign.metalabel.com/esoteric-ai-... 3/4
🚨 [Dis]enchantment: A zine about Esoteric AI is out now on @metalabel.bsky.social 🎱🔮 aixdesign.metalabel.com/esoteric-ai-... 🌙
Summoning 54 pages of magic and technology, divination practices, folklore, and other arcane ways of knowing - you can download for free or pay-what-you-can 🧛
🎬 Fabian Mosele (@fabianmosele.bsky.social) / Synthiola surfing latent space
👩💻 Computational Mama (@computationalmama.bsky.social) / Ambika 🤖 building playgrounds for lofi AI builds
🔮 Natalia Stanusch (@nataliastanusch.bsky.social) summoning new perspectives on Esoteric AI <3
🎐 Eryk Salvaggio (@eryk.bsky.social) / Cybernetic Forests helping us sift through the technological debris in the “age of noise”
🥤 Caroline Sinders (@carolinesinders.bsky.social) exploring design for justice, data rights & user agency in algorithmic systems
First artist drop & we're screaming! 🙀 Here’s who you can expect to see + hang with at the AIxDESIGN Festival 2025 🎪🎪 Can’t join us IRL? Tune into the livestream – virtual tickets are 33% off on Kickstarter now 🔗 bit.ly/AIxDlivestream. A dream lineup of y/our favorite AI researchers and artists 💭
