Workshops

  • Unlearning Gender

    Unlearning Gender

    Jelena Mönch (DE), Miguel Rangil (ES)

    Unlearning Gender speculates on alternative modes of categorization to resist algorithmic-binary normalization. Through the symbolic hacking of the computer vision interface, the project aims to escape from gender and break with the technosocial binarisms embedded in technology.

  • The Art of Synthesis – Creative Collaborations Between Artistic Research, Technology, and Care

    The Art of Synthesis – Creative Collaborations Between Artistic Research, Technology, and Care

    Kerstin Borchhardt (AT/DE), Sabine Himmelsbach (CH), María Antonia Gonzales Valerio (MX), Rahma Khazam (FR/GB), Yukiko Matsunaga (JP), Elena Soterakis (US), Yoko Shimizu (AT/JP)

    Experiments on new networks created through collaborations of cultural practices, high technology, and nature are common elements in various media questioning traditional notions of order, knowledge, and truth.

  • CCI Thrive Workshop

    CCI Thrive Workshop

    Alice Bonnot (FR), Ewen Chardronnet (FR), Archana Prasad (IN), Anke Schlünsen-Rico (DE), Rasa Bočytė (LT), Olga Tykhonova (UA/AT), Bill Fontana (US), Jennifer Kanary (CA), Florian Weigl (NL), Kelly Hazejager (NL), Pau Alsina (ES), Gefion Thuermer (UK), Andrea Bandelli (NL), Petra Vanič (SL), Marco Cappellini (IT)

    The workshop will focus on cultural Business Models, particularly related to non-financial value creation in the cultural sector with an innovative approach to change our behaviors, increase our knowledge and raise public awareness.

  • Crafting Futures Lab: towards slow future Workshop

    Crafting Futures Lab: towards slow future Workshop

    Anna Blumenkranz (AT)

    In this workshop, the participants will learn to design with textile materials in connection with handcrafted electronics, and invent, narrate, and create their own visions of alternative futures.

  • Crafting Futures Lab formen:sprache Workshop

    Crafting Futures Lab formen:sprache Workshop

    Valerie Moschner (AT), Michael Kramer (AT)

    Zigzag. Hiss. Boom. Blub. Poof. Bang. Crack. Language can not only describe shapes, but also create them.

  • Large Language Models (LLMs): Imagining a Technology-Assisted Citizens’ Assembly to Create a More Inclusive and Constructive Democratic Process

    Large Language Models (LLMs): Imagining a Technology-Assisted Citizens’ Assembly to Create a More Inclusive and Constructive Democratic Process

    MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC), Deb Roy, Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou, Claudia Chwalisz

    This workshop will explore just how we can harness the power of technology to create democratic spaces where people can actively listen to one another, find common ground to address social challenges, and rebuild their trust in institutions.

  • Large Language Models (LLMs) and Us

    Large Language Models (LLMs) and Us

    MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC), Belén Saldías, Jad Kabbara, Deb Roy

    How well can LLMs represent my values? How, what, and from where do LLMs get their learning abilities? During two independent sessions, we will address a full spectrum of questions.

  • It’s AI, Stupid – Futuring Exercise (AI Futures)

    It’s AI, Stupid – Futuring Exercise (AI Futures)

    Time’s Up

    As part of this three-hour “futuring” exercise, participants will use their imagination of near-term future scenarios to address the promises and threats – along with subsequent tangents and obstacles – posed by ideas of artificial intelligence.

  • Workshop: Future Impulses – Artificial intelligence 

    Workshop: Future Impulses – Artificial intelligence 

    Future Thinking School by Ars Electronica (AT)

    This interactive workshop provides an understanding of the basics of AI and a playful insight into current creative applications.

  • Workshop: somagrid – Neuro Interactive Installation

    Workshop: somagrid – Neuro Interactive Installation

    Erika Mondria (AT), Marika Jasmine Grasso (IT)

    The workshop somagrid deals with physical signal percepts, biometric data, and AI-based technologies.