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Dreaming Beyond AI is a space for critical and constructive knowledge, visionary fiction and speculative art, and community organizing around Artificial Intelligence.

AI technologies reinforce existing injustices and discrimination. Decision-making processes are increasingly being outsourced to algorithmic systems – by the police and in court, in schools and in job application procedures, in government offices, at border crossings, and elsewhere. With Dreaming Beyond AI, we aim to challenge both the way AI is used today, and the societal structures that uphold algorithmic oppression.

We use AI as a gateway to broader societal questions around marginalization, imagination, futurism, feminism, and how we experience the present. The goal is to de-center technology and create an experimental curated space for connection and coming together.

We aim to enable :

  • an understanding of how AI technologies can exacerbate oppressing power structures in our society
  • a questioning of dominant narratives about AI, imposed visions of future, and oppressive structures that are amplified by the widespread and uncritical use of AI technologies
  • a redefinition of how AI technologies might/should serve us, improve representation, equity and connection – create visions of the future from the margins

The website itself and the process through which it is created reflect our intentions and challenge deeply rooted ways of thinking, knowing and being in the digital realm. For instance, we intend to challenge the expectation of seamless design interfaces and fast, frictionless digital experience, as well as consumerist attitudes towards online information and media. As such, Dreaming Beyond AI is a collectively shaped and deeply relational experiment that draws inspiration from Ursula Le Guin's text ‘The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction’, adrienne maree brown's ‘emergent strategy’ framework, Arturo Escobar's ‘pluriverse’, the Design Justice Network, and the work of many others.

Dreaming Beyond AI's concept was birthed by Nushin Yazdani and Buse Çetin, but influenced and inspired by the works, thoughts, tireless love, care, and tenacity of many incredible feminist voices.

The web platform is designed and coded by Iyo Bisseck, and the communication strategy has been created by Sarah Diedro. Special advisors for Dreaming Beyond AI are Sarah Chander and Dr. Nakeema Stefflbauer. Meera Ghani supported with the overall flow of the project, Zain Assaad helped with uploading, and Victoria Kure-Wu has worked on the UX quality assessment. Tadleeh provided the music for the Pluriverse.

Dreaming Beyond AI has been created in cooperation with ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Sabiha Keyif and Nina Frohm), and supported by Humanity in Action and the Alfred Landecker Foundation within the framework of the Landecker Democracy Fellowship as well as mur.at.

Team members


Portrait of Iyo Bisseck.

Iyo Bisseck
(she)

iyo@dreamingbeyond.ai

Iyo Bisseck is a designer, programmer, and artist. Her work explores biases that show the link between technologies and systems of domination, with a specific focus on racial bias in the realization of virtual agents.Through her work as a website designer, she also supports many initiatives to have a digital archive. As an artist, she is interested in creating alternative and collaborative narratives using virtual tools. 

For Dreaming Beyond AI, Iyo has created the web design and undertook the technical realization of the platform.

Portrait of Nushin Yazdani.

Nushin Yazdani
(she/her)

nushin@dreamingbeyond.ai

Nushin Isabelle Yazdani is a transformation designer, artist, and AI design researcher. She works with machine learning, design justice, and intersectional feminist practices, and writes about the systems of oppression of the present and the possibilities for just and free futures. At Superrr Lab, Nushin works as a project manager on creating feminist tech policies. With her collective dgtl fmnsm, she curates and organizes community events at the intersection of technology, art, and design. Nushin has lectured at various universities, is a Landecker Democracy Fellow and a member of the Design Justice Network. She has been selected as one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2021.

For Dreaming Beyond AI, Nushin heads creative direction, and works on concept development and curation.

Portrait of Maya Indira Ganesh.

Maya Indira Ganesh
she/her

Advisor 2023

Maya Indira Ganesh is a scholar, educator, and practitioner who works at the intersection of digital technologies, culture, and society. She co-leads a Master’s program in AI, Ethics, and Society at the University of Cambridge, UK, and is a senior research fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. You can find an up-to-date list of her academic research and writing here, culture writing and essays here, and recent talks and public events here.

Maya earned a Drphil in Cultural Sciences (Kulturwissenschaften) from Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany in 2022. Her doctoral work examined the re-shaping of what we mean by the ‘ethical’ and the shifting role of the human in the emergence of the driverless car. Her current research-pedagogy asks what kinds of learning and teaching methods and materials contribute to the shaping of expertise in shaping AI technologies as ethical, reponsible, and political.

Before transitioning to a PhD and academia, Maya worked with feminist and digital rights NGOs on securing freedom of speech and expression online and offline for human rights defenders, journalists, and activists, chiefly at Tactical Tech.

Maya works as a practitioner writing about the digital, technology, and culture, collaborating with artists, critics, and designers, developing large-scale cultural symposia, and advising cultural institutions and curators. Her writing has been translated into Korean, Turkish, French, and German.

Maya has won fellowships and awards from the Media Cultures of Simulation (MECS) Institute for Advanced Study (2018), Digital Earth/Hivos (2020), the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar on Histories of AI (2021), and was a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre Resident Fellow on AI (2019).

Portrait of Raziye Buse Çetin.

Raziye Buse Çetin
(she/her)

buse@dreamingbeyond.ai

R. Buse Çetin is an AI researcher, consultant, and creative. Buse worked with a variety of actors including foundations, non-profits, fashion-luxury-beauty brands, art institutions on the intersection of AI and topics such as feminism, equity, decoloniality, AI ethics and governance. Buse been featured on Forbes, delivered a Tedx talk, and was selected for 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2020 list and CIDOB Barselona 35 leaders under 35 list.

For Dreaming Beyond AI, Buse leads research and develops conceptual frameworks, she also works on curation and communication.

Portrait of Sarah Diedro Jordão.

Sarah Diedro Jordão
(she/her)

sarah@dreamingbeyond.ai

Sarah Diedro Jordão is a communications strategist, a social justice activist, and a podcast producer. She was formerly a UN Women and Youth Ambassador, has served as a strategic advisor to the North-South Center of the Council of Europe on intersectionality in policymaking. Sarah currently works as a freelance consultant in storytelling, communications strategy, event moderation, and educational workshop creation.

For Dreaming Beyond AI, Sarah has led the communications strategy and implementation.

Partners

Dreaming Beyond AI has been created in cooperation with ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, and supported by Humanity in Action and the Alfred Landecker Foundation within the framework of the Landecker Democracy Fellowship as well as mur.at.

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Dreaming Beyond AI is a space for critical and constructive knowledge, visionary fiction & speculative art and community-organising.

This website project uses AI as a gateway to broader societal questions around marginalisation, imagination, futurism, feminism and how we experience the present. The goal of the project is to de-center technology and use it as a tool rather than main instrument for connection and a coming together. It is an experiment to a curated space where people enter with a shared sense of values and agreements.

AI Violence
Violence and trauma open psychic wounds that harden us and limit our vitality. It is the heavy knot entangled with unacknowledged pain that we feel in our bodies and it disconnects us from the true self. Technological change and automation have been a cause for trauma across geographies and times, particularly for the most marginalised. As essential processes and functions such as hiring, medicine, and care are automated and the public space is increasingly curated by algorithms, how does this interact with individual and collective trauma? Does it create new psychic wounds that go unacknowledged and unhealed? How do the addictive patterns on apps and platforms create violence and reinforce trauma? How are some people and communities denied their humanity, existence, identity and so on through technologically-mediated ways? Can we envision trauma-informed technologies? What are the technologies of healing?
Intelligence
Intelligence is the main conceptual and philosophical underpinning of AI technologies and ideologies. What is considered intelligent has been influential in shaping the trajectory of AI technologies. The mainstream conception of intelligence, which favours abstract thinking, emerged out of oppressive structures and has been weaponized to justify domination and colonization. These radicalized and gendered understandings of intelligence prevail in popular AI discourse today. If intelligence is a foundational concept of AI, how can we understand, question, and redefine it? Are there other forms of intelligence that AI should reflect? Or are there some that AI already reflects but that are not yet acknowledged?
Machine Vision & Feeling
How do algorithms and machines see? How do we understand and imagine the machine vision? How does it feel to be seen by a machine? From CAPTCHAs that test our humanity to facial recognition algorithms at airports that verify our identity – how do these experiences make us feel? Who do the machines see? Who do they exclude? What politics of visibility does machine vision create?
Patterns
AI techniques such as machine learning and deep learning help find patterns, features, and correlations in large amounts of data. Pattern recognition systems for classification, prediction and optimization are highly marketed upon and are paving the way to a new knowledge regime – some argue that they are partly replacing theory as a means of knowledge production. However, AI pattern recognition can also be understood as marking the boundaries of ‘normalcy’ – leaving out noise and outliers that are usually those who can't fit in. Whose patterns are we looking at? What purpose does this pattern-finding serve? Are we talking about freeing patterns, or about patterns that extend the coloniality of power? Patterns in nature and our existence are portals to interconnectivity and signs of nature's wisdom. How can we think of nature’s patterns and AI patterns together, rather than seeing them as opposed to each other? Is there any way, any examples, demonstrations, or strategies, through which we can find where AI patterns act as portals and markers of interconnectivity in the universe?
Refusal
Most of the time, our technological futures seem and feel quite inevitable. ‘Technological progress’ is a core characteristic of the discourse of modernity, and AI hype is deeply entangled with this. The idea of inevitable technological progress undermines the agency and decision-making power of collectives and erases moments of collective refusal. What are examples of technological refusal when it comes to AI technologies? How can we amplify these narratives? How can refusal be comprehended as not only a reactionary but also a generative response? What if refusal is the only way for some communities to claim agency?
Planet Earth & Outrastructure
What is the impact of AI systems on the earth? Why are AI's high energy consumption, carbon footprint, and dependance on rare earth minerals so unfamiliar to and absent from the collective conscious? How does AI rely on the same inequitable power structures that extract labour and creativity from people? How can we think of AI within a climate justice framework? What are the stories of the earth? What policymaking proposals could address the environmental cost of computation beyond monetization?
Future-Present Vibrations
Our future seems defined by data colonialism, extractivism, competitiveness, and all-destroying growth desire. It seems so much easier to dream up dystopian visions of the future than to create concrete ideas of worlds that are plural and worth living in for everyone. Yet these are all the more important. We can only live in a more just world if we dare to imagine it first. What are the visions, fractals, practices, sounds, and vibrations of future, present, and past – beyond linear thinking? Future/present/past, as all exists at the same time. How do we practice upwards?
AI & Relationality
The modern/Western world is structured and ruled by metaphysical assumptions embedded in binary thinking, naturalized universals, liberal humanism, social rationalization, economism, and entrenched ideas of progress, order, freedom, and agency. AI technologies are imagined, created, and designed to respond to the needs of racial capitalism, binary thinking, and atomized individualism. Solutions for mitigating AI harm that use the same logics are not enough. How would a radical ontological and epistemological shift feel? Can AI ever be relational?
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Designer / researcher

Adriaan Odendaal is a multimedia and content designer from South Africa, whose work revolves around algorithmic literacy, critical and speculative design, digital culture, and game/software studies. He is a cofounder of the research and design studio internet teapot, which focuses on using design in socially transformative ways.

www.internetteapot.com
Twitter: @adriaan_o
Instagram: @internetteapot



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A Carrier Bag Filled with Glitches, Errors, and Artificial Stupidity
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Artist

Alla Popp is a digital media and performance artist from Kazan, Russia. Alla’s feminist gaze focuses on our shared visions of the future, the emancipatory potentials of digital technology, and narratives for the future of humanity. Formally, Alla works at the intersection of digital technology, performance, and music, devel-oping interactive digital formats and live experiences in VR, AR, XR, and on the web. Alla is part of the technologically advanced interdisciplinary music and performance project BBB_ and the dgtl fmnsm collective.

homepage-bbb.com
allapopp.com
Instagram: @allapopp



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Queer Feminist AI FaceFilter
he/they
visual artist

Bretas, 24, is a Black Visual Artist, born and based in São Paulo, Brazil. Academically, grad student in Architecture on FAU at University of São Paulo and researcher in Demonumenta-FAUUSP group.

The artist uses deepfakes to revive archives of 1800's racialized portrait-photography from distinct regions of his country. A inspiring exercise on ancestrality, temporalities and race, using AI create Memory - without engaging in a neocolonialist approach on Machine Learning and Data-driven escalation of real world inequalides. Bretas' most common art output is VideoMapping in places of Memory.

In 2021, at Demonumenta, Bretas was the first to bring together, publish and animate a 421 photos archive depicting afro-indigenous people of São Paulo in the 1860’s, the biggest of its kind. Last year, the artist took part on his first institucional group exhibition at SESC Consolação in São Paulo. In the same 2022, Guilherme gave a brief presentation at the Interactive Communication Program-NYU in NYC on"Projection Mapping in Brazilian Territories".

Now, in 2023 Bretas was the youngest nominated artist for PIPA Prize, one of the leading awards of contemporary art in Brazil. @bretasvj also work as VJ collaborating with groups as Lollapalooza, Nike, HBO, Valorant and others.

instagram.com/bretasvj


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Charlie has a PhD in physics and has worked as a researcher, data scientist, data cleaner, and scientific programmer, but mostly they have been extremely online and clenching their jaw. On their way to becom-ing a proper data luddite, they cling on due to seeing more and more awesome people working on critical studies of technology and algorithms, and being involved in cool projects and approaches to public interest technology and design justice.

are.na/de



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Machine Unreadable
he/him
essayist, writer, and multidisciplinary artist

Dera Luce is a Nigerian-American essayist, speculative fiction writer, and multidisciplinary artist who calls Berlin home. His writing and videos explore queerness, linguistics, shifting realities, and other extraordinary experiences that he is still finding the words for. Dera has written for Autostraddle, The Atlantic's CityLab, and Riverfront Times, among others. He is a Summer ‘22 Fellow of Voodoonauts, a grassroots Residents bios 3 Afrofuturist collective promoting connectivity and craft within the global Black SFF community. Dera is currently writing a novel for Black queer young adults.

deraluce.com/
patreon.com/deraluc
`instagram.com/deraluce


(she/her)
Artist

Elif Sansoy is a digital media artist from Istanbul, Turkey. The work she is most passionate about focuses on discoveries of forms of digital intimacy that are absent from nuance-free UGC ecosystems that make us repress our sensitivities about the world and each other. Coming from a video art background, she uses algorithmic processes and digital image manipulation to express her ideas about alternative narrative worlds that can unfold within the digital.



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Sinthomatic Music / Digital Intimacy
they
artist

Hiba Ali is a producer of moving images, sounds, garments and words. They grew up in Chicago and Toronto and currently reside across Eugene, or and Austin, Texas. Born in Karachi, Pakistan, they belong to East African, South Asian and Arab diasporas. They are a practitioner and (re)learner of Swahili, Urdu, Arabic and Spanish languages. They are an assistant professor at the College of Design in the art & technology program at the University of Oregon in Eugene and they teach on decolonial, feminist, anti-racist frameworks in digital art pedagogies.

Currently, they are a phd candidate in cultural studies at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. Their work has been presented in Chicago, Stockholm, Vienna, Berlin, Toronto, New York, Istanbul, São Paulo, Detroit, Windsor, Dubai, Austin, Vancouver, and Portland.

hibaali.info
instagram: @h3ba.hyba.xba


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Researcher

İdil Galip is a writer, researcher, and maker interested in exploring global memespheres, algorithmic cultures and the future of platform work through ethnographic methods and theoretical interventions. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Edinburgh and is currently a lecturer in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. She also runs the Meme Studies Research Network, which is an interdisciplinary network for people who study memes.

idilgalip.com
Twitter: @idilgalip
Instagram: @cybervolta



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A respite from algorithmic violence: Memes, platforms and content moderation
(she/her)
Artist

Jillian Zhong is a designer, programmer, and internet user based in New York, NY. In 2016, she created the instagram account ada.wrong, an online persona that explored and appropriated the meme medium, online it-girls, and internet oversharing to discuss identity, mental health, and social media. Currently, she works on a project, virtualgoodsdealer, a speculative collaborative virtual space and e-commerce portal.

jzhong.today/
Instagram: @ada.wrong



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A respite from algorithmic violence: Memes, platforms and content moderation
(she/her)
Researcher

Joycelyn Longdon is a twenty-three-year-old MRes+PhD student at Cambridge University on the Artificial Intelligence for the study of Environmental Risk (AI4ER) programme, researching the applications of AI to the climate emergency. Her PhD research takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining machine learning, bioacoustics, forest ecology, indigenous knowledge, and sociology to investigate the role of technology in forest conservation. She is also the founder of ClimateInColour, an online education platform and commu-nity for the climate-curious, making climate conversation more accessible and diverse.

climateincolour.com
Instagram: @climateincolor



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Radical AI for Forest Conservation
(she/her)
Designer / researcher

Karla Zavala Barreda works at the intersection of software, design, and education. She is a cofounder of the research and design studio internet teapot, a collaboration that focuses on speculative and critical design projects, digital culture, critical theory, and the use of design in a socially transformative way. She is current-ly a PhD candidate in media studies at the University of Amsterdam, where she researches apps ecology and learning software aimed at young children.

www.internetteapot.com
Twitter: @karlazavala
Instagram: @internetteapot



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A Carrier Bag Filled with Glitches, Errors, and Artificial Stupidity
they
interdisciplinary artist, writer and futurist

Kira Xonorika is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and futurist. With a background in art history and research, their work explores the multidimensional connections between sovereignty, ancestry, the future, gender-expansive constellations, and magic. Through transcultural and AI-collaborative frameworks, Xonorika weaves multi-species worlds involving human, non-human and machine intelligence. In 2023, Kira was awarded the Momus/EYEBEAM Critical Writing Fellowship and became a Salzburg Global Seminar Scholar. Recent shows include ''Incarnation'' at VELLUM (LA), and Algorithmic Empathy. The Promises of AI at Expanded.Art (Berlin)

instagram.com/Xonorika


(they/them)
Designer / researcher

Lucas LaRochelle is a designer and researcher whose work is concerned with queer and trans digital cul-tures, community-based archiving, and co-creative media. They are the founder of Queering the Map, a community-generated counter-mapping project that digitally archives LGBTQ2IA+ experience in relation to physical space. They have lectured, facilitated, and exhibited internationally, recently at the Guggenheim Museum (USA), Interaccess (Canada), Digital Writers’ Festival (Australia), MUTEK (Canada), LINZ FMR (Austria), Ars Electronica (Austria), Somerset House (UK), Onomatopee Projects (Netherlands), fanfare (Netherlands), OTHERWISE Festival (Switzerland), Ada X (Canada), and SBC Gallery (Canada). They have presented research at the Bartlett School of Architecture, the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras / School of Architecture, the University of Cambridge, and Stanford University, among other academic insti-tutions. Their work and writing has been published in Futuress, Immerse News, Queer Sites in Global Con-texts, Atlas Menor #1, QUEER.ARCHIVE.WORK #3, Diagrams of Power, IWAKAN, ROM, Accent, Echelles, and Perfect Strangers, among other books and publications.

lucaslarochelle.com
Twitter: @queeringthemap_
Instagram: @ontario.mom
Instagram: @queeringthemap



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X≠Y∴Z
(he/him)
Composer / engineer / artist

Max Ardito is a composer, engineer, and artist from Brooklyn, New York, currently living in Montréal. Blur-ring the lines between sonic arts, computer science, and research, his work explores the complicated spir-itual relationships that manifest at the border between information and interface. Through a practice that involves reappropriating and obliterating the technocratic interfaces of modern neoliberalism – variational auto-encoding, cloud load balancing, signal encryption practices – his works attempt to deconstruct their own tools to the extreme limits and simulate the ways in which people are used, influenced, and radicalized by technology. Max has background in DIY experimental music, performing frequently as a violinist both solo and in collaboration with others in various noise/improvisational projects.

maxardito.com



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Sinthomatic Music / Digital Intimacy
(he/him)
Sound artist / visual artist / electronic musician

Moisés Horta Valenzuela is an autodidact sound artist, creative technologist, and electronic musician from Tijuana, México, working in computer music, Artificial Intelligence, and the history and politics of emerging digital technologies. As 𝔥𝔢𝔵𝔬𝔯𝔠𝔦𝔰𝔪𝔬𝔰, he crafts an uncanny link between ancient and state-of-the-art sound technologies channeled through a critical decolonial theory lens in the context of contemporary electronic music and the sonic arts. His work has been presented at Ars Electronica, MUTEK México, Transart Festi-val, MUTEK: AI Art Lab Montréal, Elektron Musik Studion, CTM Festival: Music Makers Hacklab, among other events. He currently leads independently organized workshops around creative AI art practices centred around sound and image synthesis and the demystification of neural networks, developing SEMILLA, an interface for interacting with generative neural sound synthesizers, and OIR, an online channel for a semi-autonomous meta-DJ trained on thousands of hours of visuals and music from global electronic club mu-sic and techno.

moiseshorta.audio
Twitter: @hexorcismos
Instagram: @hexorcismos



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Age of Data: A.I. Industry
(she/her)
Investor / ethical AI advocate

Nakeema Stefflbauer is a Brooklyn-born tech digitalization expert, a business angel investor, and an advo-cate for ethical AI technology investment. Nakeema founded the FrauenLoop nonprofit in Berlin, and she is CEO of the US-based Techincolor venture and the Techincolor.eu network of tech professionals in Europe. She writes and speaks about the impact of digital technologies and AI on marginalized groups and has given keynotes at EU Parliament hearings, among other events.

nakeema.net
Twitter: @DocStefflbauer



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Algorithms and the Convenience Matrix

Comedian, Speaker, Chef, Performer, Poet, cangaceira transviada. Left the Sertão of Brazil to be a travesti*. Also left debts in the Bank of Brazil and believes that sleeping alligators get turned into YT people's purses.

Instagram: @bundaskanzlerin



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A respite from algorithmic violence: Memes, platforms and content moderation
(they/she)
Artist / theorist / curator / writer

Neema Githere (b. Nairobi, Kenya) is a writer, artist, and grassroots theorist whose work explores love and indigeneity in a time of algorithmic debris. Having dreamt themselves into the world via the internet from an early age, Githere’s work prototypes relationality-as-art through experiments that span curation, community organizing, social design, travel and image-making. Githere is a 2023-24 Practitioner Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford University, where they are working on a project entitled “Data Healing: A Call for Repair”.

presentism2020.com
Instagram: @take.back.theinternet



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Mycelial Memory and the Mycelial Internet
they
communication designer

Noam Youngrak Son is a communication designer practicing queer publishing. They explore revolutionary methods of disseminating deviant narratives. In their work, publishing concerns more than mere printed matter, since, in its etymology, the word "publishing" originally meant to populate communities and to breed interspecies relations. The term "queer" in this context is not used as a statement of identity but as that of methodology – small yet collective strategies of publishing that challenge the modern myth of a singular, heroic “Genius” designer.

d-act.org
instagram.com/noam_yr


(she/her)
Artist, Designer & Researcher

Nushin Isabelle Yazdani is a transformation designer, artist, and AI design researcher. She works with machine learning, design justice, and intersectional feminist practices, and writes about the systems of oppression of the present and the possibilities for just and free futures. At Superrr Lab, Nushin works as a project manager on creating feminist tech policies. With her collective dgtl fmnsm, she curates and organizes community events at the intersection of technology, art, and design. Nushin has lectured at various universities, is a Landecker Democracy Fellow and a member of the Design Justice Network. She has been selected as one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2021.

nushinyazdani.com



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What does our feminist future look like?
(she/her)
Artist / memer

Omnia Omer, aka @saqmemes, aka sad african queen, is a Sudanese-American memer, artist, feminist, and aspiring writer based in Omaha, Nebraska. Her creations aim at harnessing the humour, artistry, and relata-bility of memes to tackle issues such as trauma, inequality, and mental illness.

saqmemes.com
Twitter: @saqmemes
Instagram: @saqmemes



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A respite from algorithmic violence: Memes, platforms and content moderation
she/her

Paola Ricaurte is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Digital Culture at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and co-founder of the Tierra Común network. She coordinates the Latin American and Caribbean hub of the Feminist Network for Research in Artificial Intelligence, f<A+i>r.



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Tequiologies: reclaiming the right to a dignified future
(she/they)
Artist

Petja Ivanova’s intersectional feminist and transdisciplinary practice combines biology, spirituality, computa-tion, and the poetic in order to promote the poetic method as a counterweight to the socially dominant 'scientific method’ of capitalist, imperialist, white-supremacist patriarchy. The Berlin-based Bulgarian artist graduated from the University of Arts Berlin in the class for computational art/generative art in 2015. She runs Studio Poetic Futures and Speculative Ecologies (SPF) out of a little caravan and teaches speculative design at HAW-Hamburg, and at times at Linnaeus University in Växjo, Sweden.

poeticfutures.com
Instagram: @poetic_futures



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Mycelial Memory and the Mycelial Internet
she/her
co-founder Dreaming Beyond AI

R. Buse Çetin is a creative strategist and AI ethicist. Her work revolves around ethics, impact, and governance of AI systems and it is grounded in intersectional feminism. Buse is the co-founder of the AI research, advocacy and art platform Dreaming Beyond AI. Buse's work aims to demystify the intersectional impact of AI technologies through research, policy advocacy and art for the general public and various organisations.

linktr.ee/busecett



buse@dreamingbeyond.ai
(she/her)

Sarah Devi Chander is interested in anti-racism, technology policy, and justice. She is a senior policy adviser at European Digital Rights (EDRi), where she advocates on digital legislation and aims to build resilient coalitions to contest discriminatory and oppressive technology practice. She is also cofounder of the Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice, a PoC-led coalition of activists and actors organizing for racial justice.

Twitter: @sarahchander



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A [love] letter to [black and brown] [queer] and [disabled] [feminists], [dreaming] [beyond] AI
(she/her)

Seeta Peña Gangadharan is associate professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her work focuses on inclusion, exclusion, and marginalization, as well as questions around democracy, social justice, and technological governance. She currently co-leads two projects: Our Data Bodies, which examines the impact of data collection and data-driven technologies on members of marginalized communities in the United States, and Justice, Equity, and Technology, which explores the impacts of data-driven technologies and infrastructures on European civil society. She is also a visiting scholar in the School of Media Studies at The New School, affiliated fellow of Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, and affiliate fellow of the Data & Society Research Institute.



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No Exit: Big Computing’s End Run Around User Rights and Refusal
(she/her)
Artist

Tabita Rezaire is infinity longing to experience itself. As an eternal seeker, her path as an artist, devotee, yogi, doula, and farmer’s apprentice weaves healing arts and scientific systems through connections to the land, the ancestors, and the songs. Her cross-dimensional practices envision network sciences – organic, electronic, and spiritual – as healing technologies to serve the shift towards heart consciousness. Embracing digital, corporeal, and ancestral memory, she digs into scientific imaginaries and mystical realms to tackle the colonial wounds and energetic imbalances that affect the songs of our body-mind-spirits.

Tabita is based in French Guiana, where she is birthing AMAKABA.

tabitarezaire.com
Twitter: #tabitarezaire
Instagram: #tabitarezaire



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Community of Intelligence
(she/her)

Tadleeh is the nascent project of Indian-born, Milan-based musician Hazina Francia. Her club-heavy, brooding debut EP, Ego Will Collapse, was released in summer 2019 on Berlin’s Yegorka label.

shapeplatform.eu/artist/tadleeh


she/her
PhD Student at King's College London

temi lasade-anderson is a PhD Student at King's College London, completing exploratory research on Black women’s digital intimacy. Her research interests are "the digital" and Blackness; race, identity and social media (sub)cultures; Internet relationality; and platform governance. temi has a Master in Digital Media and Society from Cardiff University, where she was awarded Best Dissertation (2022). Alongside her PhD work, temi founded alaàṣẹ, a Black feminist internet lab. Here, she develops research and consults for tech policy civil society on advocacy, campaigning and policy. Prior to the above, temi worked for almost a decade in marketing and digital advertising. Altogether, her work seeks to reimagine and create equitable and joyful technological futures.



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The Web this Black Woman Wants
(no pronouns)

Ulla Heinrich (*1987) is a cultural mediator, curator, and cultural manager (MA). From 2015–18, Ulla worked at HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts as Head of Digital Communication, assistant to the intendant and head of special projects. As a music curator and booker, Heinrich previously organized concerts and open-air festivals and currently serves on juries for the Musikfonds and Initiative Musik. For the past 10 years, Ulla has been involved in projects and workshops on the topic of digitality and gender for young people, young adults and educational professionals. As a feminist activist, Ulla gives lectures on the topic and organizes educational events. Ulla is also initiator, curator and producer of the festival dgtl fmnsm, which takes place since 2016 and deals with the emancipatory potentials of technology from a queer-feminist and intersectional perspective. Since June 2019, Ulla is the managing director of Missy Magazine and lives in Berlin.

missy-magazine.de



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What does our feminist future look like?
(she/her)
Artist

Vanessa A. Opoku is a visual artist living and working in Berlin. She recently graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, having already studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem. With film and photography, animation, 3D scans, and AI, she explores the borderlands of mixed reality. Traces that people leave behind become visible between the worlds of virtuality and physical reality. Beings and objects turn into mediating mentors who ask questions and tell stories of identity and self-empowerment.

Twitter: @vaopoku
Instagram: @vaopoku



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Nichts als solide
(they/them)
Visual artist

I create under the name (Zas) Ieluhee, which means ‘(the) moon’ in Medu Neter, the ancient Egyptian syllabary deeply linked to the majority of Bantu languages and in particular mine, which is Bamileke. I channel my inspirations by replicating patterns I see in nature, sacred geometry, and visual representations of how energies (light, sound, etc.) travel through various dimensions and bodies. My art reflects my current perception of the world, but also incorporate the lessons I have learned from facing reality as it is.

My approach is supported by extensive research, particularly in astrophysics, astronomy, memetics, and ancient symbols and religions – overall, ways of understanding the dynamics of existence, consciousness, death, and the afterlife.

zasieluhee.com
Instagram: @ieluhee



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Light Bosons

Dreaming Beyond AI is a collective, changing body of work that has been shaped by various artists, researchers, writers, activists, designers, scientists, community organizers, dreamers, and thinkers.
These are the people who have contributed to Dreaming Beyond AI, in order of first name.

We thank also our carrier bag contributors:

Caroline Ward & Erinma Ochu of Squirrel Nation
Yasmine Boudiaf
Irene Fubara Manuel
Laurence Meyer
Esra Ozkan
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
Cleo aka Emotional Labour Queen
Grace Kwon and Sam Vassor of Close Isn't Home
Maria (Happy New Tears)
Maxh Capacity & AORTA Films
Hyphen Labs
Anna Fries & Malu Peeters
Sam Lavigne
Amelia Winger-Bearskin
Alia ElKattan

Adriaan Odendaal
he/him

Designer / researcher

Adriaan Odendaal is a multimedia and content designer from South Africa, whose work revolves around algorithmic literacy, critical and speculative design, digital culture, and game/software studies. He is a cofounder of the research and design studio internet teapot, which focuses on using design in socially transformative ways.

www.internetteapot.com
Twitter: @adriaan_o
Instagram: @internetteapot


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Alla Popp
(no pronoun)

Artist

Alla Popp is a digital media and performance artist from Kazan, Russia. Alla’s feminist gaze focuses on our shared visions of the future, the emancipatory potentials of digital technology, and narratives for the future of humanity. Formally, Alla works at the intersection of digital technology, performance, and music, devel-oping interactive digital formats and live experiences in VR, AR, XR, and on the web. Alla is part of the technologically advanced interdisciplinary music and performance project BBB_ and the dgtl fmnsm collective.

homepage-bbb.com
allapopp.com
Instagram: @allapopp


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Bretas
he/they

visual artist

Bretas, 24, is a Black Visual Artist, born and based in São Paulo, Brazil. Academically, grad student in Architecture on FAU at University of São Paulo and researcher in Demonumenta-FAUUSP group.

The artist uses deepfakes to revive archives of 1800's racialized portrait-photography from distinct regions of his country. A inspiring exercise on ancestrality, temporalities and race, using AI create Memory - without engaging in a neocolonialist approach on Machine Learning and Data-driven escalation of real world inequalides. Bretas' most common art output is VideoMapping in places of Memory.

In 2021, at Demonumenta, Bretas was the first to bring together, publish and animate a 421 photos archive depicting afro-indigenous people of São Paulo in the 1860’s, the biggest of its kind. Last year, the artist took part on his first institucional group exhibition at SESC Consolação in São Paulo. In the same 2022, Guilherme gave a brief presentation at the Interactive Communication Program-NYU in NYC on"Projection Mapping in Brazilian Territories".

Now, in 2023 Bretas was the youngest nominated artist for PIPA Prize, one of the leading awards of contemporary art in Brazil. @bretasvj also work as VJ collaborating with groups as Lollapalooza, Nike, HBO, Valorant and others.

instagram.com/bretasvj

Charlie
(they/them)


Charlie has a PhD in physics and has worked as a researcher, data scientist, data cleaner, and scientific programmer, but mostly they have been extremely online and clenching their jaw. On their way to becom-ing a proper data luddite, they cling on due to seeing more and more awesome people working on critical studies of technology and algorithms, and being involved in cool projects and approaches to public interest technology and design justice.

are.na/de


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Dera Luce
he/him

essayist, writer, and multidisciplinary artist

Dera Luce is a Nigerian-American essayist, speculative fiction writer, and multidisciplinary artist who calls Berlin home. His writing and videos explore queerness, linguistics, shifting realities, and other extraordinary experiences that he is still finding the words for. Dera has written for Autostraddle, The Atlantic's CityLab, and Riverfront Times, among others. He is a Summer ‘22 Fellow of Voodoonauts, a grassroots Residents bios 3 Afrofuturist collective promoting connectivity and craft within the global Black SFF community. Dera is currently writing a novel for Black queer young adults.

deraluce.com/
patreon.com/deraluc
`instagram.com/deraluce

Elif Sansoy
(she/her)

Artist

Elif Sansoy is a digital media artist from Istanbul, Turkey. The work she is most passionate about focuses on discoveries of forms of digital intimacy that are absent from nuance-free UGC ecosystems that make us repress our sensitivities about the world and each other. Coming from a video art background, she uses algorithmic processes and digital image manipulation to express her ideas about alternative narrative worlds that can unfold within the digital.


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hiba ali
they

artist

Hiba Ali is a producer of moving images, sounds, garments and words. They grew up in Chicago and Toronto and currently reside across Eugene, or and Austin, Texas. Born in Karachi, Pakistan, they belong to East African, South Asian and Arab diasporas. They are a practitioner and (re)learner of Swahili, Urdu, Arabic and Spanish languages. They are an assistant professor at the College of Design in the art & technology program at the University of Oregon in Eugene and they teach on decolonial, feminist, anti-racist frameworks in digital art pedagogies.

Currently, they are a phd candidate in cultural studies at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. Their work has been presented in Chicago, Stockholm, Vienna, Berlin, Toronto, New York, Istanbul, São Paulo, Detroit, Windsor, Dubai, Austin, Vancouver, and Portland.

hibaali.info
instagram: @h3ba.hyba.xba

İdil Galip
(she/her)

Researcher

İdil Galip is a writer, researcher, and maker interested in exploring global memespheres, algorithmic cultures and the future of platform work through ethnographic methods and theoretical interventions. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Edinburgh and is currently a lecturer in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. She also runs the Meme Studies Research Network, which is an interdisciplinary network for people who study memes.

idilgalip.com
Twitter: @idilgalip
Instagram: @cybervolta


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Jillian Zhong
(she/her)

Artist

Jillian Zhong is a designer, programmer, and internet user based in New York, NY. In 2016, she created the instagram account ada.wrong, an online persona that explored and appropriated the meme medium, online it-girls, and internet oversharing to discuss identity, mental health, and social media. Currently, she works on a project, virtualgoodsdealer, a speculative collaborative virtual space and e-commerce portal.

jzhong.today/
Instagram: @ada.wrong


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Joycelyn Longdon
(she/her)

Researcher

Joycelyn Longdon is a twenty-three-year-old MRes+PhD student at Cambridge University on the Artificial Intelligence for the study of Environmental Risk (AI4ER) programme, researching the applications of AI to the climate emergency. Her PhD research takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining machine learning, bioacoustics, forest ecology, indigenous knowledge, and sociology to investigate the role of technology in forest conservation. She is also the founder of ClimateInColour, an online education platform and commu-nity for the climate-curious, making climate conversation more accessible and diverse.

climateincolour.com
Instagram: @climateincolor


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Karla Zavala Barreda
(she/her)

Designer / researcher

Karla Zavala Barreda works at the intersection of software, design, and education. She is a cofounder of the research and design studio internet teapot, a collaboration that focuses on speculative and critical design projects, digital culture, critical theory, and the use of design in a socially transformative way. She is current-ly a PhD candidate in media studies at the University of Amsterdam, where she researches apps ecology and learning software aimed at young children.

www.internetteapot.com
Twitter: @karlazavala
Instagram: @internetteapot


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Kira Xonorika
they

interdisciplinary artist, writer and futurist

Kira Xonorika is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and futurist. With a background in art history and research, their work explores the multidimensional connections between sovereignty, ancestry, the future, gender-expansive constellations, and magic. Through transcultural and AI-collaborative frameworks, Xonorika weaves multi-species worlds involving human, non-human and machine intelligence. In 2023, Kira was awarded the Momus/EYEBEAM Critical Writing Fellowship and became a Salzburg Global Seminar Scholar. Recent shows include ''Incarnation'' at VELLUM (LA), and Algorithmic Empathy. The Promises of AI at Expanded.Art (Berlin)

instagram.com/Xonorika

Lucas LaRochelle
(they/them)

Designer / researcher

Lucas LaRochelle is a designer and researcher whose work is concerned with queer and trans digital cul-tures, community-based archiving, and co-creative media. They are the founder of Queering the Map, a community-generated counter-mapping project that digitally archives LGBTQ2IA+ experience in relation to physical space. They have lectured, facilitated, and exhibited internationally, recently at the Guggenheim Museum (USA), Interaccess (Canada), Digital Writers’ Festival (Australia), MUTEK (Canada), LINZ FMR (Austria), Ars Electronica (Austria), Somerset House (UK), Onomatopee Projects (Netherlands), fanfare (Netherlands), OTHERWISE Festival (Switzerland), Ada X (Canada), and SBC Gallery (Canada). They have presented research at the Bartlett School of Architecture, the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras / School of Architecture, the University of Cambridge, and Stanford University, among other academic insti-tutions. Their work and writing has been published in Futuress, Immerse News, Queer Sites in Global Con-texts, Atlas Menor #1, QUEER.ARCHIVE.WORK #3, Diagrams of Power, IWAKAN, ROM, Accent, Echelles, and Perfect Strangers, among other books and publications.

lucaslarochelle.com
Twitter: @queeringthemap_
Instagram: @ontario.mom
Instagram: @queeringthemap


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Max Ardito
(he/him)

Composer / engineer / artist

Max Ardito is a composer, engineer, and artist from Brooklyn, New York, currently living in Montréal. Blur-ring the lines between sonic arts, computer science, and research, his work explores the complicated spir-itual relationships that manifest at the border between information and interface. Through a practice that involves reappropriating and obliterating the technocratic interfaces of modern neoliberalism – variational auto-encoding, cloud load balancing, signal encryption practices – his works attempt to deconstruct their own tools to the extreme limits and simulate the ways in which people are used, influenced, and radicalized by technology. Max has background in DIY experimental music, performing frequently as a violinist both solo and in collaboration with others in various noise/improvisational projects.

maxardito.com


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Moisés Horta Valenzuela
(he/him)

Sound artist / visual artist / electronic musician

Moisés Horta Valenzuela is an autodidact sound artist, creative technologist, and electronic musician from Tijuana, México, working in computer music, Artificial Intelligence, and the history and politics of emerging digital technologies. As 𝔥𝔢𝔵𝔬𝔯𝔠𝔦𝔰𝔪𝔬𝔰, he crafts an uncanny link between ancient and state-of-the-art sound technologies channeled through a critical decolonial theory lens in the context of contemporary electronic music and the sonic arts. His work has been presented at Ars Electronica, MUTEK México, Transart Festi-val, MUTEK: AI Art Lab Montréal, Elektron Musik Studion, CTM Festival: Music Makers Hacklab, among other events. He currently leads independently organized workshops around creative AI art practices centred around sound and image synthesis and the demystification of neural networks, developing SEMILLA, an interface for interacting with generative neural sound synthesizers, and OIR, an online channel for a semi-autonomous meta-DJ trained on thousands of hours of visuals and music from global electronic club mu-sic and techno.

moiseshorta.audio
Twitter: @hexorcismos
Instagram: @hexorcismos


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Nakeema Stefflbauer
(she/her)

Investor / ethical AI advocate

Nakeema Stefflbauer is a Brooklyn-born tech digitalization expert, a business angel investor, and an advo-cate for ethical AI technology investment. Nakeema founded the FrauenLoop nonprofit in Berlin, and she is CEO of the US-based Techincolor venture and the Techincolor.eu network of tech professionals in Europe. She writes and speaks about the impact of digital technologies and AI on marginalized groups and has given keynotes at EU Parliament hearings, among other events.

nakeema.net
Twitter: @DocStefflbauer


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NAYA (Fka Lux Venérea)


Comedian, Speaker, Chef, Performer, Poet, cangaceira transviada. Left the Sertão of Brazil to be a travesti*. Also left debts in the Bank of Brazil and believes that sleeping alligators get turned into YT people's purses.

Instagram: @bundaskanzlerin


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Neema Githere
(they/she)

Artist / theorist / curator / writer

Neema Githere (b. Nairobi, Kenya) is a writer, artist, and grassroots theorist whose work explores love and indigeneity in a time of algorithmic debris. Having dreamt themselves into the world via the internet from an early age, Githere’s work prototypes relationality-as-art through experiments that span curation, community organizing, social design, travel and image-making. Githere is a 2023-24 Practitioner Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford University, where they are working on a project entitled “Data Healing: A Call for Repair”.

presentism2020.com
Instagram: @take.back.theinternet


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Noam Youngrak Son
they

communication designer

Noam Youngrak Son is a communication designer practicing queer publishing. They explore revolutionary methods of disseminating deviant narratives. In their work, publishing concerns more than mere printed matter, since, in its etymology, the word "publishing" originally meant to populate communities and to breed interspecies relations. The term "queer" in this context is not used as a statement of identity but as that of methodology – small yet collective strategies of publishing that challenge the modern myth of a singular, heroic “Genius” designer.

d-act.org
instagram.com/noam_yr

Nushin Yazdani
(she/her)

Artist, Designer & Researcher

Nushin Isabelle Yazdani is a transformation designer, artist, and AI design researcher. She works with machine learning, design justice, and intersectional feminist practices, and writes about the systems of oppression of the present and the possibilities for just and free futures. At Superrr Lab, Nushin works as a project manager on creating feminist tech policies. With her collective dgtl fmnsm, she curates and organizes community events at the intersection of technology, art, and design. Nushin has lectured at various universities, is a Landecker Democracy Fellow and a member of the Design Justice Network. She has been selected as one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2021.

nushinyazdani.com


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Omnia Elbasheer
(she/her)

Artist / memer

Omnia Omer, aka @saqmemes, aka sad african queen, is a Sudanese-American memer, artist, feminist, and aspiring writer based in Omaha, Nebraska. Her creations aim at harnessing the humour, artistry, and relata-bility of memes to tackle issues such as trauma, inequality, and mental illness.

saqmemes.com
Twitter: @saqmemes
Instagram: @saqmemes


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Paola Ricaurte
she/her


Paola Ricaurte is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Digital Culture at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and co-founder of the Tierra Común network. She coordinates the Latin American and Caribbean hub of the Feminist Network for Research in Artificial Intelligence, f<A+i>r.


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Petja Ivanova
(she/they)

Artist

Petja Ivanova’s intersectional feminist and transdisciplinary practice combines biology, spirituality, computa-tion, and the poetic in order to promote the poetic method as a counterweight to the socially dominant 'scientific method’ of capitalist, imperialist, white-supremacist patriarchy. The Berlin-based Bulgarian artist graduated from the University of Arts Berlin in the class for computational art/generative art in 2015. She runs Studio Poetic Futures and Speculative Ecologies (SPF) out of a little caravan and teaches speculative design at HAW-Hamburg, and at times at Linnaeus University in Växjo, Sweden.

poeticfutures.com
Instagram: @poetic_futures


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Raziye Buse Çetin
she/her

co-founder Dreaming Beyond AI

buse@dreamingbeyond.ai

R. Buse Çetin is a creative strategist and AI ethicist. Her work revolves around ethics, impact, and governance of AI systems and it is grounded in intersectional feminism. Buse is the co-founder of the AI research, advocacy and art platform Dreaming Beyond AI. Buse's work aims to demystify the intersectional impact of AI technologies through research, policy advocacy and art for the general public and various organisations.

linktr.ee/busecett

Sarah Devi Chander
(she/her)


Sarah Devi Chander is interested in anti-racism, technology policy, and justice. She is a senior policy adviser at European Digital Rights (EDRi), where she advocates on digital legislation and aims to build resilient coalitions to contest discriminatory and oppressive technology practice. She is also cofounder of the Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice, a PoC-led coalition of activists and actors organizing for racial justice.

Twitter: @sarahchander


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Seeta Peña Gangadharan
(she/her)


Seeta Peña Gangadharan is associate professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her work focuses on inclusion, exclusion, and marginalization, as well as questions around democracy, social justice, and technological governance. She currently co-leads two projects: Our Data Bodies, which examines the impact of data collection and data-driven technologies on members of marginalized communities in the United States, and Justice, Equity, and Technology, which explores the impacts of data-driven technologies and infrastructures on European civil society. She is also a visiting scholar in the School of Media Studies at The New School, affiliated fellow of Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, and affiliate fellow of the Data & Society Research Institute.


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Tabita Rezaire
(she/her)

Artist

Tabita Rezaire is infinity longing to experience itself. As an eternal seeker, her path as an artist, devotee, yogi, doula, and farmer’s apprentice weaves healing arts and scientific systems through connections to the land, the ancestors, and the songs. Her cross-dimensional practices envision network sciences – organic, electronic, and spiritual – as healing technologies to serve the shift towards heart consciousness. Embracing digital, corporeal, and ancestral memory, she digs into scientific imaginaries and mystical realms to tackle the colonial wounds and energetic imbalances that affect the songs of our body-mind-spirits.

Tabita is based in French Guiana, where she is birthing AMAKABA.

tabitarezaire.com
Twitter: #tabitarezaire
Instagram: #tabitarezaire


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Tadleeh
(she/her)


Tadleeh is the nascent project of Indian-born, Milan-based musician Hazina Francia. Her club-heavy, brooding debut EP, Ego Will Collapse, was released in summer 2019 on Berlin’s Yegorka label.

shapeplatform.eu/artist/tadleeh

temi lasade-anderson
she/her

PhD Student at King's College London

temi lasade-anderson is a PhD Student at King's College London, completing exploratory research on Black women’s digital intimacy. Her research interests are "the digital" and Blackness; race, identity and social media (sub)cultures; Internet relationality; and platform governance. temi has a Master in Digital Media and Society from Cardiff University, where she was awarded Best Dissertation (2022). Alongside her PhD work, temi founded alaàṣẹ, a Black feminist internet lab. Here, she develops research and consults for tech policy civil society on advocacy, campaigning and policy. Prior to the above, temi worked for almost a decade in marketing and digital advertising. Altogether, her work seeks to reimagine and create equitable and joyful technological futures.


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Ulla Heinrich
(no pronouns)


Ulla Heinrich (*1987) is a cultural mediator, curator, and cultural manager (MA). From 2015–18, Ulla worked at HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts as Head of Digital Communication, assistant to the intendant and head of special projects. As a music curator and booker, Heinrich previously organized concerts and open-air festivals and currently serves on juries for the Musikfonds and Initiative Musik. For the past 10 years, Ulla has been involved in projects and workshops on the topic of digitality and gender for young people, young adults and educational professionals. As a feminist activist, Ulla gives lectures on the topic and organizes educational events. Ulla is also initiator, curator and producer of the festival dgtl fmnsm, which takes place since 2016 and deals with the emancipatory potentials of technology from a queer-feminist and intersectional perspective. Since June 2019, Ulla is the managing director of Missy Magazine and lives in Berlin.

missy-magazine.de


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Vanessa A. Opoku
(she/her)

Artist

Vanessa A. Opoku is a visual artist living and working in Berlin. She recently graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, having already studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem. With film and photography, animation, 3D scans, and AI, she explores the borderlands of mixed reality. Traces that people leave behind become visible between the worlds of virtuality and physical reality. Beings and objects turn into mediating mentors who ask questions and tell stories of identity and self-empowerment.

Twitter: @vaopoku
Instagram: @vaopoku


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Zas Ieluhee
(they/them)

Visual artist

I create under the name (Zas) Ieluhee, which means ‘(the) moon’ in Medu Neter, the ancient Egyptian syllabary deeply linked to the majority of Bantu languages and in particular mine, which is Bamileke. I channel my inspirations by replicating patterns I see in nature, sacred geometry, and visual representations of how energies (light, sound, etc.) travel through various dimensions and bodies. My art reflects my current perception of the world, but also incorporate the lessons I have learned from facing reality as it is.

My approach is supported by extensive research, particularly in astrophysics, astronomy, memetics, and ancient symbols and religions – overall, ways of understanding the dynamics of existence, consciousness, death, and the afterlife.

zasieluhee.com
Instagram: @ieluhee


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3.1 Data processing by YouTube

Our website contains embedded YouTube videos. We only enable access to YouTube. YouTube is a service offered by Google Inc. Please refer to YouTube’s data privacy policy youtube.com/t/privacy for information on the purpose and scope of data collection and use by Google as well as your rights and settings options for your data protection as a YouTube customer.
We have also structured the way we embed YouTube videos so that data is not transferred to YouTube until you click on “load video”.

3.2 Data processing by Vimeo

We cooperate with the service provider Vimeo to integrate videos. Vimeo is operated by Vimeo, LLC, headquartered at 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011.
We use Vimeo plug-ins on some of our sites. Each time you access a page on our website that features a Vimeo plug-in, the plug-in causes your browser to load and display an image of the plug-in from the Vimeo server. Data regarding which of our sites you have accessed is thereby transferred to the Vimeo server. If you are logged on to Vimeo at that time, Vimeo will assign this information to your personal user account. Each time you activate a plug-in, i.e. by clicking on the start button of a video, this information is assigned to your user account. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo user account and deleting the Vimeo cookies before logging on to our website.
For more information on data processing and data protection by Vimeo, see vimeo.com/privacy
We have also structured the way we embed Viemo videos so that data is not transferred to YouTube until you click on “load video”.

3.3 Data processing by Megaphone 

For the integration of audio on our website, we use the Megaphone service of the provider Spotify AB, headquartered at Regeringsgatan 19, SE-111 53 Stockholm, Sweden.
From our side, only the connection to Megaphone is enabled. For the purpose and scope of data collection and use by Megaphone as well as your rights and setting options, please refer to the data protection information of Megaphone megaphone.fm/terms/privacy
We have also integrated this service on our website in such a way that a transmission of data and the associated acceptance for the use of cookies and trackers by Megaphone only takes place if you consent to this by clicking on the audio integration.

4. Data transmission
Your personal data is transmitted over the Internet in encrypted form using SSL.
We only pass on your personal data to third parties after first obtaining your consent unless we are under legal obligation to do so or in order to protect the rights, property and security of ifa.
In cases where external service providers come into contact with personal data, we enforce mandatory legal, technical and organizational measures to guarantee compliance with data protection regulations.

5. Legal basis for data processing

The legal basis according to which your data is processed stems from your consent (according to Art. 6 para. 1 (a) GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)). In cases in which ifa pursues its legitimate interests, processing is conducted in compliance with Art. 6 Abs. 1 (f) GDPR.

6. Links to other websites
Our website contains links to other websites. We have no influence on the compliance of operators of other websites with data protection regulations.
We are responsible for our own content according to general law. Our content is not to be mistaken with linked content of other providers. We assume no responsibility for third-party content, which is provided via links for use, and do not adopt their content as our own.
Liability for illegal, inaccurate or incomplete content and, in particular, for damages resulting from the use or non-use of such information is the sole responsibility of the provider of the site to which links are provided.

7. Your rights to your personal data
According to the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to obtain information about your stored personal data free of charge and, if necessary, the right to correct, restrict or delete such data at any time. To the extent we are required to comply with legal storage obligations, we shall block your data from further processing so that your data can no longer be used for the purposes mentioned above.
You also have the right to request that we send you in electronic form any of your personal data stored by us.
You may withdraw your consent that your data be stored or processed at any time. Should you choose to exercise this right, we will immediately delete your data that we have stored and block processing of any data that cannot be deleted due to legal requirements.
Please send us your request using the contact details below.
If you feel that ifa is not processing your data in compliance with current data protection laws, you have the right to appeal to a data protection supervisory authority of your choice.

8. Right to object on a case-by-case basis
You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you which is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR (data processing on the basis of a balance of interests); this also applies to profiling based on this provision within the meaning of Art. 4 (4) GPDR.
If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the purpose of asserting, exercising or defending legal claims.

9. Data security
Your personal data is transmitted online in encrypted form. We use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption technology. Please note that online data transmission (e.g. even when communicating via email) may exhibit security gaps. It is not possible to guarantee full protection against access by third parties.
We use technical and organizational security measures to secure our website and other systems, keeping your data safe from loss, destruction, access, modification or processing by unauthorized parties. We continually update these security measures in line with the latest technology.

10. Further information and contact

Please contact us should you have any further questions about data privacy. If your questions concern collection, processing or use of your personal data, if you would like more information or to request that we correct, restrict or delete your data or if you would like to withdraw your consent, please contact our data protection officer or use the contact information below:
Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. (ifa)
Charlottenplatz 17
D–70173 Stuttgart
art@ifa.de

Data protection officer

datenschutzbeauftragter@ifa.de

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