In this session of Slow AI, research-based artist Angelo Custódio explored voice as a confluence of body and mind, bridging techno and soma in an environment that encouraged participation and fluid materialization.
AW
Event
Slow AI: Every Archive Moves at its Own Rate
Mariana Lanari and Nell Donkers
This session of Slow AI entered the library of De Appel and tuned into the rhythm of its archive to speculate on the reality of data, the temporality of the physical, and the fragility of the digital.
AW
Event
Slow AI: Images as Allies
Elki Boerdam
This session of Slow AI speculated on the agency of images and explored how creating our image archives can become a personal act of remembrance.
CE
Event
HIGH SHINE
Daisy Hildyard, Catalina Insignares and Tamara Antonejivic
For this event, ARIAS’s Care Ecologies group in collaboration with DAS Publishing and de Nieuwe Dans Bibliotheek, hosted author Daisy Hildyard, choreographer Catalina Insignares and dramaturg Tamara Antonejivic for an exchange of artistic practices.
AW
Event
Slow AI: From Science To Séance
Dorin Budușan and Sofía Fernández Blanco
This session of Slow AI focused on challenging conventional ideas of artificial intelligence by shifting attention to knowledge systems rooted in the intelligence of matter itself, such as magic and divination.
WK
Event
[un]learning through illness
Yen Noh, Erica Biolchini and Nienke Scholts
A collaborative session corresponding to Yen Noh, Erica Biolchini and Nienke Scholts’ resonating research towards collaborative forms of healing, pausing, (un)learning, as well as being with illness, exhaustion and other systemic wounds.
WK
Event
[un]learning through rehearsal
Laura Dubourjal and Linnea Langfjord Kristensen
Using storytelling and games to playfully dissect social scripts, examine their origins, and reimagine our roles within them.
AW
Event
Slow AI: Slow, Mycelial, Technological Myths
Janine Armin and Mariana Fernández Mora
This first Slow AI session explored non-extractive imaginaries of AI by reimagining AI narratives through myth-making rooted in personal and ancestral stories of creation.
AW
Slow AI
Mariana Fernandez Mora, Sabine Niederer, Andy Dockett, Flavia Dzodan, Janine Armin, Zachary Formwalt and Maarten Groen
Slow AI focuses on developing strategies to address colonial and extractive histories in current AI systems by introducing the concept of slowness to a fast technology.
CI
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Zine Making Waves #2
ARIAS Amsterdam
The second "Making Waves" zine, published in April 2024, challenges climate stereotypes, fostering imagination and interspecies perspectives through artists' contributions and interactive design.
CI
Climate Imaginaries Podcast
ARIAS Amsterdam
This podcast is part of the project Climate Imaginaries which speculates possible futures in and around water through various artistic and participatory research practices.
CE
Event
The Language of Climate Care II
Ania Molenda and Clarinde Wesselink
Workshop and lunch that explored an archive of language towards climate care, anxiety and the relations therein.
WK
Event
[un]learning media scripts
Sonia de Jager, Nduka Mtambo and Mei Liu
Dinner and film screenings highlighting the moving image as a source of knowledge and activism.
CE
AW
Event
Haunting the Digital III: Governing Digital Immortality
Natalia Sánchez-Querubín
Workshop that used speculative policy writing to explore the limits of “digital immortality”.
AW
Event
Data Archeology
Elizaveta Federmesser
Exploring generative AI models through the idea of "mutable notions". Discussions on the iconic's link to generative AI were followed by a data exercise testing prompts and outputs, guiding participants in reverse-engineering results.
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Listening: A Research Method in Art and Design
Femke Dekker
The product of Femke Dekker’s year-long investigation into sound and listening at the University of the Arts The Hague, this publication explores the role of sound in creative practice research.
AW
Post Purposing Pump Station
Pernilla Manjula Philip
Pernilla Manjula Philip's exhibition "Post Purposing Pump Station", challenges the dominance of medical technology and emphasises disabled people's agency in navigating their health needs.
WK
Event
[un]learning through archives
Janne Igbuwe and Mariana Lanari
Reflecting on the urgency of archiving, the importance of including diverse perspectives when preserving knowledge, and the different ways of approaching collections.
AW
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What is an inclusive city?
Sofie Burgos-Thorsen, Sabine Niederer and Anders Koed Madsen
The paper explores inclusive cities using geospatial photovoice, revealing nuanced perspectives on urban belonging among marginalized groups, and aiming for community participation in city planning.
CI
AW
Event
It Happened Tomorrow
Carlo De Gaetano
The "It Happened Tomorrow" workshop invited participants to draw speculative landscapes to imagine a future Netherlands impacted by rising sea levels and climate change.
CE
Event
Giving Time | Travelling Through Words and Tongues
ro heinrich
Afternoon workshop that examined the “grammars of separability” through a grounding warm up, presentation of practice and writing exercise.
Doctorate
Embodied Lines
Michael O'Connor
This PhD research proposes "Embodied Lines" as a framework to understand how lines shape our experiences and explores it as a means to integrate mind, body, and environment through dance and movement.
CE
AW
Event
Haunting the Digital II: Grief-Bots: errors, ghosts, and the more than human
Natalia Sánchez-Querubín
Presentation on digital afterlives and collective speculative writing from the perspective of customer service representatives.
CE
Event
Giving Time | How to Love a Tree?
Hira Nabi
Exhibit visit to Hira Nabi’s How to Love a Tree? | Wild Encounters, collective reading, and reflection on the different modes of time learned from nature.
AW
Event
Ghosts in the Machine
Mariana Fernandez Mora
The ARIAS Artificial Worlds Group hosted "Ghosts in the Machine," a symposium discussing AI's role in the arts. Artists and researchers explored AI's impact on creative expression, research, and education.
CI
Event
Water Talks and Agua es Futuro
Amanda Piña
Amanda Piña's project explores the loss of cultural and biological diversity, fostering exchanges between art, science, and indigenous knowledge, and challenging hierarchies in understanding nature.
AW
Event
Who Combines What?: Generative AI and the where of creativity
Claudio Celis Bueno, Ada Popowicz and Pei-Sze Chow
Claudio Celis Bueno, Ada Popowicz, and Pei-Sze Chow explored generative AI and creativity, reflecting on its nature, sociotechnical distribution, and role as industry and labour drawing on Csikszentmihalyi and Lievrouw.
WK
Event
[un]learning through touch and not-knowing
Rita Sousa and Kiek Koorevaar
Exploring embodied knowledge through different senses and exchanging experiences with “not knowing”.
Research
Parts Per Billion
Akash Sheshadri
"Parts per Billion" is an essay exploring density, spatial politics, and algorithmic aesthetics. It celebrates Horror Vacui as a metaphor for diverse social fabrics, using excess and noise to delve into personal and collective experiences.
CI
Event
Müge Yilmaz and Brackish Collective
Müge Yilmaz and Brackish Collective
This workshop and lecture delved into the critical implications of salinisation and explored interdisciplinary approaches to offer fresh insights into our relationship with rising sea levels.
CI
Water Nation
Kim Spierenburg
"Water Nation" by Kim Spierenburg combines music and film to explore fears and hopes surrounding water. Using archival material and AI-generated images, it prompts reflection on contemporary water-related anxieties.
WK
Event
[un]learning through storytelling
Amir Baroud
Getting to know each other by sharing stories through personal objects over lunch with Bar Bario & Amir Baroud.
AW
Sonic Fabulative Feminism
Paula Montecinos Oliva
"Sonic Fabulative Feminism" explores radio as a performative space, merging sonic imagination with global debates. It questions historical memories and structures, collaborating with Latin American artists and researchers.
AW
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Diagramming the Noise of AI
Sonia de Jager and Martina Raponi
This workshop proposed using diagrams to explore noise as a device and methodology. Participants brought texts and ideas, discussed and created collective diagrams to investigate the theme of apophenia.
CE
Event
Giving Time | Slow Research Lab
Carolyn F. Strauss
Introduction to Slow Research Lab which highlights care and slowness through exercises and conversation.
CE
Event
The Language of Climate Care I
Ania Molenda and Dayna Casey
Workshop and lunch that explored an archive of language towards climate care, anxiety and the relations therein.
AW
Taxonomic Labyrinths: The Atlas of Latent Species
Ada Popowicz
This project explores how generative AI models shape new taxonomies. It delves into the relationship between text, image, and categorization, illuminating AI's impact on language and understanding shared reality.
CE
Event
Haunting the Digital I: Living and Grieving in a Connected World
Natalia Sánchez-Querubín
Story sprint and collective writing that explored care and grief through the digital world.
CI
The School of Mountains and Waters
Amanda Piña
"The School of Mountains and Waters" challenges modern/colonial notions of human separation from nature, drawing from Amsterdam's water history. Amidst climate change, it questions adaptation, energy transition, and ecological justice.
AW
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Apophenic Taxonomies [or how to hallucinate new worlds]
Mariana Fernandez Mora and Ada Popowicz
In this session, participants are invited to describe a curated set of images in ways that defy conventional understanding, mimicking Al's tendency to "hallucinate." This exercise encourages new perspectives on classification and categorisation.
Research
AW
Dear Machines
Mariana Fernandez Mora
"Dear Machines" redefines AI as a companion, drawing from indigenous ontologies and scholars like Kite, Latour, and Haraway. It explores AI as a mediator of knowledge, challenging traditional structures and perceptions of intelligence.
CI
The West Pole Archive
Olya Korsun
This project is a body of texts, 16mm films, photographs and objects collected and created by artist researcher and filmmaker Olya Korsun during her expedition to the West Pole – a speculative landscape spread on top of unsuspicious Netherlands.
WK
The Impact of Contemporary Artists Who Moved from Turkey on the Dutch Art Ecosystem
Nesli Gül
This project by Nesli Gül explores how Turkish artists in the Netherlands have shaped the art scene since the late 1980s. Using archival materials and interviews, it delves into memory, migration, artistic identity, filling gaps in Dutch art history.
CE
Event
Giving Time | Hard Work/Soft Work
Harriet Rose Morley
"Hard Work, Soft Work" explores feminist collective methodologies in arts, emphasizing both technical skills and soft skills. It aims to renew the concept of 'Tools' and foster collaboration within typically excluded craft practices.
Doctorate
The affordances of art for making technologies
Erik Rietveld
What could visual art afford for people involved in making technologies? In this lecture Professor Prof. Dr. Erik Rietveld aims to show that artistic practices afford embedding technologies better in society.
CI
The scene is fluid
Esther van der Heijden
"The scene is fluid" explores ocean crises through costumes and a video-poem, focusing on two species in Bosnia's Bileća Lake. It delves into sensory adaptation and transformation in a changing world.
CI
An [Interrupted] Bestiary
Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca
"An [Interrupted] Bestiary" is an expanded publication portraying endangered underwater creatures. It explores themes of extinction, grief, and speciesism, capturing and reimagining the performance amidst recent global events.
Research
The Materiality of Lines: The kinaesthetics of bodily movement uniting dance and prehistoric cave art
Michael O'Connor and Alan Cienki
This article connects dance and prehistoric cave art, focusing on the role of lines as temporal and spatial traces. It suggests that lines serve as a connection between fields, revealing new insights into embodied practices and the extended mind.
CE
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This Walk is a Pause
Nienke Scholts
"This Walk is a Pause" is a poetic sound piece in which the narrator invites the listener to walk along with her through both actual and mental landscapes, eventually arriving in a surrounding where walking offers a form of pausing.
CI
AW
Climate Futures: Machine learning from cli-fi
Natalia Sánchez-Querubín and Sabine Niederer
This project repurposes AI to co-author climate stories and images, blending artistic and machine learning methods. It critiques future-making practices, creating a tarot-like deck to inspire discussions on climate change and alternative futures.
WK
Estuaries: Ways of Knowing, Zine Publication #2
Aishwarya Kumar
Zine#2, "Estuaries: Ways of Knowing," explores the theme of loss in art research. It features voices from the ARIAS network, examining how loss influences new ways of understanding and knowledge creation.
AW
CE
Rethinking Belonging with Data Feminism
Maarten Groen, Sabine Niederer and Carlo De Gaetano
This research explores how diverse identities affect urban experiences using Data Feminism. By redesigning data visualisation, it aims to reveal and challenge power dynamics, fostering a sense of belonging in cities.
AW
Sonic Performativity – Writings & SoundTechs
Paula Montecinos Oliva
Paula Montecinos Oliva's "Sonic Performativity" explores sound, listening, and embodiment to reveal transformative and emancipatory potentials through experimental methodologies.
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Hinterlands, How to do Transdisciplinarity
ARIAS Amsterdam
"Hinterlands" (2021), the first ARIAS book, explores transdisciplinary research through diverse contributions on language, listening, pedagogy, care and more. It blends reflective and poetic styles, challenging conventional research boundaries.