REIMAGINING TECHNOLOGIES
Digital technologies are often presented as opaque black boxes, reducing most people to passive users or content creators. But technologies are also acts of imagination and narration. We create spaces for underrepresented and marginalized communities to take part in reimagining technological futures. Through South-South dialogues, co-creation workshops, experimental convenings, and sustained conversations, we excavate hidden histories, question dominant modes of data production, and build powerful collectives. Our work begins with a speculative impulse—asking What if...?—to imagine more just, inclusive, and collaborative technological worlds from the ground up.
AI Imaginaries (ArtEZ)
Artificial Intelligence: Systems of Intentionality & Human-Centred Values
A Scouting Report
Nishant Shah Fangyu Qing Longhan Wei
2023
The report offers material and narrative frameworks and educational exercises to understand, critique, assess, influence and shape the future of Artificial Intelligence.
The report was in collaboration with the Professorship in Music-based Therapies and Interventions, and facilitated by the Stichting Doubleyoutee.
‘Human-Centred AI’ Scouting Report Launch Session
2023
We are pleased to announce that an online session regarding ‘Human-Centred AI’ that’s hosted by the Professorship Music-based Therapies and Interventions (MTI) at ArtEZ University of the Arts and Digital Narratives Studio (DNS) at School of Journalism and Communication at Chinese University of Hong Kong will take place at 8:00 pm on 22nd November 2023 (HK time).
AI Anxieties
This book locates India’s flourishing internet within a complex 24-year history that has seen an unprecedented re-organization of social and political life.
How computer simulations cause strange epistemological shifts in science and society – A case study in Quantum Physics
2023
In this edition, Prof. Warnke will present a case study done on those famous thought experiments in Quantum Physics like the Double Slit that puzzles the philosophy of science since a century. What he observed together with the ethnographer Dr Anne Dippel is an epistemological shift away from First Principles towards algorithmic rule based descriptions of nature by computer simulations.
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Instead of regarding the anxieties around Gen–AI as separate cases that are emerging continuously, there is a particular urgency to unravel the fundamental reasons for their existence — why do those anxieties exist in the first place?
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As the 2nd blog in this series, it will offer an explanation of the theoretical framework of the project: In Search of The Digital Author: Author function in the age of Generative AI, as well as a record of the current progress.
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In this blog, we will continue our journey of hunting for the anxieties around Gen-AI as well as gather insights from this searching and mapping practice…
Bertelsmann foundation (Misinformed Choice)
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Earlier this year, the Digital Narratives Studio’s Experimental Authorship pillar embarked on a project with Digital Asia Hub and the Bertelsmann Stifting Foundation to study mis/disinformation events in election cycles in this particular region, to view these phenomena through a lens of crises and responses.
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Misinformed Choice occurs not as a result of information scarcity but of an information overload, which creates a condition of suspended belief, causing harm to the people making those choices.
Image Credit: AI-generated image courtesy Freepik
India: As the world’s largest democratic election in history completes its third phase, AI technologies are becoming increasingly popular with Indian political parties as they campaign for the next few weeks till the results are declared on June 4.
The Making of Misinformed Choice: The impact of digital technologies in election campaigns - insights from nine Asian countries
Nishant Shah and Anushree Majumdar
2024
This report examined the current picture of disinformation and successful countermeasures in nine (South) East Asian countries and concluded that digital disinformation is widespread and contributes to the erosion of democracy.
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Prototyping Feminist AI
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Digital Asia Hub – AI 4 Development Asia Studies
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