Five ideas for an ethical use of GEN-AI in arts and design.
In this article we explore how to protect and support the work of artists with practices in the space of generative AI.
Art & Research work
(19 projects)
Bullshit detectors: the fight for real news in an artificial future
How can we make our own decisions in a rapidly changing world that is only seen through the lens of biased media?
Death by Numbers: The rhythm of violence behind the headlines
Our art piece, The Rhythm of Violence, was intended to not only shed light on the pervasive nature of violence against women but also to challenge the conventional methods of data representation.
Who are you calling a Luddite?
Why these misrepresented machine breakers of the 19th century have found new relevance in the era of AI.
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Unveiling the stigmas around mental health that are living in our data
How can AI help us to collectively identify cultural stigmas around mental health, and work towards challenging them?
From the fear of an AI monster to the hope of augmented empathy.
Revisiting the cautionary tale of Frankenstein, to explore how AI could increase our capacity for empathy.
A list of top residencies and artist funds.
Here's a rundown of what I've learned about residencies and artists funds up over the years.
How we used Barbie dolls to decode AI bias
Exposing cultural misrepresentation in generative AI models using children’s toys.
AI in Education: The Good, the Bad, and the Downright Confusing
It is clear that AI is a valuable tool you could use to finish assignments more quickly, but what would be lost in that process? The Atlantic recently declared that “The College Essay Is Dead,” and although I disagree, this calls for further exploration.
The Great Generative AI Debate: To Use or Abuse?
This article summarizes key perspectives on the dilemma we are all facing in the creative industries right now regarding using certain generative Artificial Intelligence tools.
14 Creative Uses for AI Text Generation in ChatGPT
Exploring the creative potential of language models, and share some essential tricks for working with ChatGPT.
A quick guide to Artificial Intelligence for data designers and curious minds.
A very simplified summary for people who are just getting started with the text-to-image tools.
Learnings from 730 hours of violence
After a month of collecting messages (and a few crazy nights analysing them to turn the individual testimonies into data) there’s a lot we’d like to share with you after our first iteration of the #730hours initiative
Making visible the invisible
This article was part of the exhibition and Book Design Does: For Better and for worse. It explores the rapidly evolving relationship between data and design.
Beyond the Interface: Emotional Design in the Digital Age
An excerpt from our book Design Does: For Better and for worse, that explores the role of human empathy in design, and how the two are inherently intertwined.
The Art of Living
An excerpt from the introduction to our Design Does book, which accompanied the exhibition. It looks at how the design process of the baby's pacifier exemplifies our quest to live better... but at what cost?
How to make a killer data-based feminism exhibition
What we learned in the process of putting together a big data-based feminism exhibition in the middle of a pandemic
From City Councils to Conscious Coding: Embedding values into software
How the urgent needs of the pandemic drove us to develop a software that became an experiment in how to bring back soul and values to a piece of software.
Surveys, sexism, and the beauty of question-making
As we waited for Covid to allow us to share our exhibition on Feminism, we wrote this article on the importance of asking the right questions when we want to generate data that tells stories on complex issues like feminism.