AI x DESIGN: Archival Images of AI (Remix your own better images of AI)

Tired of seeing the same blue circuit boards or shiny white robots every time someone talks about AI? Then the “Remix your own better images of AI” workshop is for you. During this hands-on workshop, we’ll use the Archival Images of AI Playbook >> a collection of image-making briefs, reusing and remixing techniques, and tips for navigating digital archives to create better images of AI.

In this hands-on, two-hour workshop, participants will:

• Learn to identify common visual tropes in AI: What stories do they tell? What stories do they conceal?
• Write their own image briefs tailored to their AI communication needs
• Understand how reusing and reinterpreting cultural heritage collections can challenge mainstream AI narratives
• Apply AI remix techniques—such as emoji annotations, digital distortion, pattern-making, and meme creation—using archival images to create new, more impactful AI visuals

What to expect? ✂️

🦕 No technical knowledge or skill needed
🖍️ Crafty materials available

📓 Check out our Archival Images of AI playbook for a sneak peek at the kinds of things you might make 🔗 https://bit.ly/aixd-aioai-playbook

Ploipailin Flynn is an AI researcher interested in making AI work for "the rest of us.”
They are the co-founder of AIxDESIGN ⇗, a global community of 8,000+ creative technologists building alternatives to Big Tech AI. They also lecture at UAL: Central Saint Martin and UAL: Creative Computing Institute in London.

AI x DESIGN:

WE’RE A GLOBAL COMMUNITY CONDUCTING CRITICAL AI RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE, NOT PROFITS

We host events, run community-led research projects, and make public resources to democratize AI literacy and critical discourse, practice critical & creative thinking, and research and prototype new ways of being in relation to AI and technology.*

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

Get App

Host or Publisher Beta - An art & technology festival in Ireland