BreAIk, ChAInge, RegenerAIte

BreAIk, ChAInge, RegenerAIte

presented by Goethe Institute, in collaboration with Digital Narratives Studio and Museum of Art and Photography (MAP)

How do we see AI when AI is increasingly becoming the lens through which we see ourselves, and the worlds we live in? How do we negotiate a relationship with AI where we are more than users who use AI? How do we become decision makers who exploit the possibilities and affordances of AI with human intentions and towards collective and social care making practices? How do we understand, critique, and remake the architectures, designs, processes, and practices that power and determine the logics of power in AI driven systems?

BreAIk, ChAInge, RegenerAIte is an art-technology residency that invites artists, cultural producers, designers, and creative professionals to see how AI creates our worlds rather than seeing the world through AI. Engaging with multiple AI stakeholders – technology developers, regulators, entrepreneurs, and activists – the cohort is invited to insert Art in Artificial Intelligence. The invitation is to reposition ourselves in relation to these AI systems.

The current dominant trends driven by the rapid proliferation and adoption of cheap, accessible, and easily available AI systems, is to focus entirely on the application of these technologies and their consequences. Anxieties around creativity, Intellectual Property, skills, automation, future of work, misinformation, automated decision making, weaponization, and polarization often surface when thinking of emerging AI technologies.

Our ways of being and knowing are unsettled by these new practices which are intentionally designed to disrupt, break, and reconfigure our everyday lives. We seek to destabilize this relationship where we accept AI technologies as a given and only focus on how to use them. We call to actively examine and understand AI systems as expressions of power architected through digital technologies – Which means that they can be questioned, undone, and remade.

Apply by filling and submitting the application form online before 06 September 2025: https://www.goethe.de/ins/in/en/kul/art/bcr/aif.html

Check more details about the residency: http://goethe.de/ins/in/en/kul/art/bcr.html#accordion_toggle_26828836_4