CODE 2022: Reclaiming Digital Agency

HeLi-AI

Anastasiia Belousova (DE), Pauline Vantilt (NL), Shruthi Venkat (NL)

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HeLi-AI introduces a fictional product at Ars Electronica’s Kepler’s Garden in Linz, seducing the visitors/consumers with false promises. With HeLi-AI, we aim to stimulate visitors to reflect on how we are being manipulated online, how susceptible we are to techno-optimism and how easy it is to fall into the over-productivity narrative.
HeLi-AI is part of CODE 2022, a program organized by IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] (NL) in collaboration with School of Machines, Making & Make Believe (DE), Werktank (BE) and Privacy Salon/Privacytopia (BE).

Biography

NAnastasiia Belousova is a media artist based in Berlin, focusing on the intersection between technology and humans in daily life.

Pauline Vantilt works as a sustainability analyst with a background in business studies.

Shruthi Venkat is an industrial designer and a researcher. She enjoys exploring the spaces of AI, technology, and speculative design.

Credits

HeLi-AI is part of CODE 2022, a programme organised by IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] (NL) in collaboration with School of Machines, Making & Make Believe (DE), Werktank (BE) and Privacy Salon/Privacytopia (BE).
CODE 2022 is realized with the support of the Creative Industries Fund NL, City of Utrecht, Democracy and Media Fund, Fonds Soziokultur, Cultural Participation Fund, the Dutch Embassy in Belgium (Brussels), the Dutch Embassy in Germany (Berlin) and the Goethe Institut.