✺ Part of the panel «AI & Digital Justice Tools»
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.
Chair: Ivana Jović
Biography
Dreaming Beyond AI is a space for critical and constructive knowledge, visionary fiction and speculative art, and community organizing around Artificial Intelligence.
AI technologies reinforce existing injustices and discrimination. Decision-making processes are increasingly being outsourced to algorithmic systems – by the police and in court, in schools and in job application procedures, in government offices, at border crossings, and elsewhere. With Dreaming Beyond AI, we aim to challenge both the way AI is used today, and the societal structures that uphold algorithmic oppression. We use AI as a gateway to broader societal questions around marginalization, imagination, futurism, feminism, and how we experience the present. The goal is to de-center technology and create an experimental curated space for connection and coming together.
This project is a collective effort by Nushin Yazdani, Iyo Bisseck, and Sarah Diedro Jordão, in cooperation with various feminist voices, the ifa Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations in Stuttgart, and supported by Humanity in Action and the Alfred Landecker Foundation as part of the Landecker Democracy Fellowship and mur.at.
The platform features a diverse range of contributions, including articles, music, AI-generated artworks, and other digital works by artists, researchers, and activists, all brought together in a spirit of collaboration and shared vision.
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