Dit essay onderzoekt hoe AI de traditionele workflow van animatoren beïnvloedt en wat dit betekent voor het vakgebied en het kunstonderwijs in Nederland. In hoeverre kan AI het werk van animators vervangen of ondersteunen? Wat zijn de beperkingen van deze technologie? En hoe kunnen animatoren AI op een …

This essay will examine how AI influences the traditional workflow of animators, and the implications for the field and art education in the Netherlands. To what extent can AI replace or support the work of animators? What are the limitations of this technology? How can animators meaningfully integrate …

For Mission AI the aim was to explore the creative potential of these technologies beyond workflow optimization, automation, and addressing copyright concerns. The focus was on discovering what unique possibilities AI offers beyond those found in other media forms. What kind of art projects will they …

Utterances: Composing a Care- Informed Artistic Research Practice in the Cracks is a humble offering towards an alternative research practice that is guided by an ethics of care. It is an offering coaxed out of the side notes and the whispers of the Promiscuous Care Study Group, a collective formed within …

Whether you are a beginner or more advanced, Hands On Research for Artists, Designers & Educators is a guide to getting started with research in art and design. It presents the research process through six actions: research by making, research of context, participatory research, reflecting on research, …

Permacomputing is a nascent concept and a community of practice centred around design principles that embrace limits and constraints as a positive thing in computational culture, and on creativity with scarce computational resources. As a result, permacomputing aims to provide a countervoice to digital …

In recent years, in the context of sustained criticism and general fatigue that surrounds largescale corporate social media platforms,1 the desire to build alternatives has grown stronger. This has manifested through the emergence of a wide range of projects, driven by various motives. These projects …

Our letters pay homage to the 1890 novel News from Nowhere by William Morris, a major figure in the 19th century British Arts and Crafts movement. Morris’ novel tells the story of a protagonist who wakes up in a better society [the literal “nowhere” of his book title when “utopia” is translated from …

In 2011, a loose group of “grumpy futurists” wrote up an extensive list of “Alternatives to the Singularity” in a collaborative Google Document. “The Singularity”, in popular culture and para-religious belief, refers to the point where machine intelligence leaves humans behind. Against the techno-utopian …

Human prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them. Algorithmic identity politics reinstate old forms of social segregation—in a digital world, identity politics is pattern discrimination. It is by recognizing patterns in input data that artificial intelligence algorithms …