Doing AI Otherwise #4: Rethinking AI Aesthetics: Building Alternative Vernaculars 

Doing AI Otherwise_ Session #4: Rethinking AI Aesthetics: Building Alternative Vernaculars  How do we create a new aesthetic for AI—both for visual and rhetorical forms of communication? In the final session, we encourage participants to cultivate a new aesthetic and rhetoric of AI as an alternative to the dominant socio-technical imaginaries that typically construe AI solutions within capitalist, masculine, and glitchy-blue frames. How might concepts such as ‘slowness’, ‘feminism’, ‘cyberpunk’, ‘decolonisation’, or otherwise help us reconfigure cultural and public imaginaries of AI and help us find AI vernaculars that enable a different practice and ethos (e.g. one that is humble, transparent, caring, or other). In this workshop, participants are asked to develop rhetorical and visual guidelines that empower an alternative to today’s dominant AI discourse and aesthetic. Invited: Students, Researchers, PractitionersLanguage: EnglishGuest: Andreas Sigsgaard, philosopher and R&D officer at SLA, and Alexandra Burgos-Thorsen, landscape architect and social justice activist. Workshop format Timeframe: 3 hours in the afternoon from 15.00 to 18.00.Location: Institute for Wicked Problems (INVI) in Snaregade 10b. (Access note: The workshop will be held on the second floor, with no elevator).Drinks and snacks are provided.Structure: Lecture to frame the session (30 min), introduction to the workshop (20 min), group work (30 min), break (10 min), group work (60 minutes), plenary reflection (30 min).Hosts: All events are co-hosted by INVI’s Director of R&D, Sofie Burgos-Thorsen, and lab manager at ETHOS Lab, Henriette Friis About Doing AI Otherwise This workshop series will consist of four independent events that invite students, researchers, artists and AI practitioners to playful sessions. Participation is open and free but necessitates signing up to secure a seat. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. ******* About INVI INVI is an independent, apolitical think tank based in Copenhagen, developing tools and toolkits to help tackle society’s most complex problems. We strive to rethink political systems from critical and innovative perspectives that blend systems thinking, foresight, social innovation, participatory policymaking and computational anthropology. Read more here. R&D Director Sofie Burgos-Thorsen is co-hosting. About ETHOS Lab ETHOS Lab is a critical feminist methods laboratory, based at IT University of Copenhagen, dedicated to experimentation at the intersection of digital methods, ethnography, and speculative fabulation. We rework the ways that social and digital worlds collide, exploring the intersections, frictions, seams, and possibilities for a more just (&feminist, &queer, &decolonial, &postcapitalist) techno-mediated reality. Read more here. Lab manager Henriette Friis is co-hosting. About Andreas Sigsgaard Info coming soon.  About Alexandra Burgos-Thorsen Info coming soon.