Walk with me…through the AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI edition!😻
Get your tickets now at → 🔗 http://bit.ly/aixd-festival-tickets to join us for the AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI from May 1-3 at Loods6, Amsterdam. See you there! 👋
🎪 AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI is made possible with the support of @stimuleringsfonds , @elisava.school , @the_naf_official , @beeldgeluid , @filmacademie , @cultuurfonds , Jagt Zwolsman fonds, @Loods6 , and our lovely AIxD Community Supporters.
@666ultracorpo999 and @anamarques.lab 📸
Few reminders about the festival:
*Wheelchair accessible 👩🦽
*Kid-friendly 🧒
*Pets encouraged 🐰
*n00bs + nerds welcome 🧑🎤
And just look how cute our flyers are 😭 @anamarques.lab absolutely crushed the "Slow AI but more rave" brief 🍄
If you encounter these colorful lil' papers hanging around, snap a pic and tag us!
Or visit our studio at 📍 NDSM Amsterdam to adopt your own pack of flyers - they're friendly and looking for new homes in schools, workplaces, coffee spots, galleries, bathrooms, bedrooms, or your shared house's fridge! Help the AIxDESIGN Festival flyers complete their lifecycle 🤾 from our hands to the wild to someone else's eyeballs 👁️👄👁️
Get your tickets now at → 🔗 bit.ly/aixd-festival-tickets to join us for the AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI from May 1-3 at Loods6, Amsterdam. See you there! 👋
🎪 AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI is made possible with the support of @stimuleringsfonds , @elisava.school , @the_naf_official , @beeldgeluid , @filmacademie , @cultuurfonds , Jagt Zwolsman fonds, @Loods6 , and our lovely AIxD Community Supporters.
🫵 Will you help us spread the word about AIxDESIGN Festival? 🫵
🏉 We're throwing our first-ever festival and need your help reaching the people it's made for! → 🔗 https://bit.ly/aixd-festival25-promo
AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI is happening May 1-3, 2025 in Amsterdam - a 3-day playful exploration where we'll deconstruct mainstream AI narratives and dream up new ones. Think of it as a living room for ideas where you can get inspired, scribble in the corner, grab lunch with a new friend, jump into a workshop, or just listen in on conversations that shift how you see AI.
🛺 Would you share this with your frens, communities, fellow nerds, teachers, co-conspirators, arch nemesis, and anyone who might dig this vibe? We've got a cute promo kit with ready-to-go visuals made by our fantastic designer @anamarques.lab and captions by our resident meme lord @666ultracorpo999 all compiled for your ease of sharing.
And if you’re based in Amsterdam, you’re invited to come pick up a stack of cute flyers to help spam the word IRL! 🗞️
Tag us if you share (aixdesign.co on IG, aixdesign.bluesky on Bluesky, AIxDESIGN on LinkedIn) - we love to see it!
🎪 AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI wouldn’t be possible without the support of @stimuleringsfonds , @elisava.school@the_naf_official , @beeldgeluid , @filmacademie , @cultuurfonds , Jagt Zwolsman fonds, @Loods6 , and our lovely Community Supporters.
RELEASE ALERT 🚨 (6/9) “Small AI Chapter” is out now! 🔗 Zoom into the full chapter on our website → https://aixdesign.co/posts/small-ai-chapter (link in bio) 🔍
The Small AI chapter invites us to rethink AI not as something floating in “the cloud,” but as deeply entangled with land, ecologies, and people — showing how technology can prioritize community value in design and governance 🦋
From artists building their personal AI models to citizen scientists preserving marginalized languages, the chapter highlights the power of small-scale approaches to protecting cultural heritage and supporting ecological resilience 🌱
Challenging the “bigger-is-always-better” mindset, Small AI calls for AI development that prioritizes real-world needs over abstract, infinite scaling — an AI that serves humanity today.
This chapter is the manifestation of @nadning and the team’s past 12 months of research into Small AI ⏳ A labour of love, we’d love to hear your thoughts!
And remember – you can chat with @nadning and come build your own tiny LLM at the 🎪 AIxD Festival 🎪 this May 1-3, at Loods6 in Amsterdam (tix are available now at https://lu.ma/yiaccf39)!
🎞️ CREDIT ROLL
Research Lead: @nadning
Editor: @soffmaria
Report Design: @kaashvi.ko
Project Leads: @ploipailin + @nadiapiet
Calligramme Artist: @anamarques.lab
🐌 ABOUT SLOW AI
The Slow AI project seeks to imagine alternative narratives for AI, unpacking and moving beyond Silicon Valley ideologies. Inspired by countermovements like slow fashion and slow food, it aims to subvert corporate-first thinking by collectively exploring new perspectives and pathways for AI. Slow AI is made possible through the support of @stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie 🪼
RELEASE ALERT (5/9) 🚨 Make-your-own-small AI tutorials are live now!
Project D33pthr0at by Gabriella Garcia & Arnab Chakravarty explored the practical possibilities of applied Small AI, with a specific focus on creating resources for sex workers facing censorship and misrepresentation in mainstream AI platforms. Investigating critical socio-technical questions, the research gave rise to two interconnected outcomes that form a foundation for future community-centered AI initiatives:
⚙️ Tutorial for "How-to: Install your own Small AI"
🔎 Documentation of their process-oriented exploration of critical AI development practices
The edited workshop recording, step-by-step walk-through, and additional documentation - essentially a flatpack for getting your own local LLM up and running - are now available to you at → 🔗 aixdesign.co/posts/project-d33pthr0at
Get DIYing and let us know what you make! 🧛 And if you like additional support, join us at the AIxDESIGN festival for the Small AI workshop on Thursday May 1st to work through it all together 🤝
👨🏻🎨 ABOUT GG + ARNAB
🌚 Gabriella Garcia is a creative researcher exploring networked subcultures and technological intimacy. She directed Decoding Stigma, centering erotic labor ethics for futurists. Her practice spans techno-feminist research, archiving, multimedia art, and creating spaces ruled by vulnerability.
🌝 Arnab Chakravarty, designer and creative technologist, builds what he designs. With an ITP NYU Master's, he's developing an AI impact game via Mozilla's Creative Media Award and directs Broken Ghost Immersives, blending theater with games—featured at India Art Fair and Kochi Biennale.
🐜 ABOUT SMALL AI
Small AI challenges the mainstream narratives of bigger-is-better, universality, profit and power max-ing - asking what could we make with AI if scale wasn’t an objective?
🐌 ABOUT SLOW AI
The Slow AI project seeks to imagine alternative narratives for AI, unpacking and moving beyond Silicon Valley ideologies and is made possible through the support of Stimuleringsfonds Creative Industries🪼
RELEASE ALERT 🚨 (3/9) “Esoteric AI: To disenchant the enchanted, and enchant the disenchanted” chapter is out now! Summon the full chapter on our website → 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gKE-HRfq 🧛
In this Slow AI Chapter, we explore how AI predictions occupy a fascinating space between the rational and the inexplicable—inviting us to re-enchant our relationship with algorithmic systems.
This chapter is the manifestation of Natalia and the team’s past 12 months of research into Esoteric AI ⏳ A labour of love, we’d love to hear your thoughts!
And remember – you can see @nataliastanusch and her work for yourself at the 🎪 AIxD Festival 🎪 this May 1-3, at Loods6 in Amsterdam (tix are available now at → 🔗 https://lu.ma/yiaccf39)!
🎞️ CREDIT ROLL
Author + Research Lead: @nataliastanusch
Editor: @soffmaria
Report Design: @kaashvi.ko
Project Leads: @ploipailin + @nadiapiet
Calligramme artist: @ana_katxrina
Slow AI is a project by AIxDESIGN made possible with the support of @stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
🔮 ABOUT ESOTERIC AI
Why do we approach AI chatbots as modern-day oracles? Esoteric AI 🔮 challenges mainstream perceptions of technology, exploring new and old ways of seeing, sensing, and knowing that transcend Western industrial narratives.
🐌 ABOUT SLOW AI
The Slow AI project seeks to imagine alternative narratives for AI, unpacking and moving beyond Silicon Valley ideologies. Inspired by countermovements like slow fashion and slow food, it aims to subvert corporate-first thinking by collectively exploring new perspectives and pathways for AI 🪼
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