Assembling Intelligence : Tenderithms AI and Intimacy Workshop by Feminist Internet
Event details
- Date
- Thursday, 25 April - 14:30
- Place
- Design Room, Head – Genève
- Genre
- Workshops and courses
- Organiser
- HEAD - Genève
Description
IMPORTANT: This is an in-person (not online) workshop. Following a brief introduction, showcasing queer and feminist perspectives on AI, participants will work collectively to explore varying definitions of intimacy, understanding how they are mediated through AI and algorithms. Following this, participants will conduct a variety of experiments with existing AI companion tools, recording their conversations as material. 13:30 - 14:00 Introduction 14:00 - 14:30 Exploring Intimacies 14:30 - 15:30 Experiments with AI Companions 15:30 - 16:30 Presenting AI Companion Conversations 16:30 - 16:45 Wrap up The conversations with AI companions will be collected and edited with the opportunity to share as a digital publication. Participants should bring a laptop or tablet with them for optimal experience (accessing the workshop Miro board and varying resources) but it is not required. -- Feminist Internet is a non-profit organisation tackling technological inequalities through creative and critical practice. They have spoken and delivered workshops around the world, including projects such as Envisions which, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, saw over 100 people from across Europe come together to envision new futures for AI. Other collaborators include The Photographers Gallery, Tate and Somerset House. Selected projects have been featured in DAZED, It’s Nice That and The Evening Standard and most recently published in ‘Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design’ by MIT press.Andrew Mallinson is an artist, writer, and co-founder of Feminist Internet. Andrew’s work looks to understand how bodies, particularly queer and trans bodies, intersect with technology and move politically and socially through space. They are an associate lecturer at the University of the Arts London. Their writing has been published by DingDingDing Magazine, Furtherfield and Pilot Press among others. They have exhibited work internationally with organisations including The Hygiene Museum, IAM, The Photographers Gallery, Furtherfield and Five Years Gallery.Nicole Zisman is an artist and designer based in London. Her eponymous womenswear label introduces the notion that authenticity is the new modernity through a future-glam lens of the designer's Venezuelan Jewish heritage. Business practices in the areas of storytelling, material and labour sustainability are informed by the designer's work in these arenas within the luxury fashion sector, within niche and/or underserved London communities, in her past and present work with Centre for Sustainable Fashion, and in her teaching and mentoring at Central Saint Martins. Zisman completed her BA in Fashion Print from Central Saint Martins in 2019, and is a Sarabande Foundation alumnus.