The rise of AI technologies is reshaping our world, deepening existing inequalities and reinforcing oppressive systems. From biased algorithms in recruitment to invasive surveillance, AI perpetuates the harms of colonialism, capitalism, ableism, cis-hetero-patriarchy, and white supremacy. Dreaming Beyond AI was created to confront these challenges by fostering collective action and building coalitions across communities. Our 2025 artist-activist residency responds to the urgent need for resistance against AI’s harmful impacts. While individual efforts are powerful, they’re not enough to combat the systemic nature of AI-driven oppression. By uniting artist-activists from diverse backgrounds, we aim to nurture solidarity, share critical knowledge, and develop strategies that challenge these technologies and the broader systems of domination they support. Coalition building is central to this residency, connecting different struggles, revealing AI’s intersections with other forms of oppression, and creating stronger, more effective resistance. Art, with its ability to bridge divides and visualize alternative futures, plays a crucial role. Through this residency, we aim to catalyze tools, narratives, and frameworks that resist AI’s harms and work toward liberated, just futures. We hope to inspire a movement challenging oppression and shaping a future grounded in community, care, and collective liberation.
Biography
Dreaming Beyond AI is a space for critical and constructive knowledge, visionary fiction and speculative art, and community organizing around Artificial Intelligence. We use AI as a gateway to broader societal questions around marginalization, imagination, futurism, feminism, and how we experience the present.