Local Disturbances

What is the role of the arts in AI?
The arts are often invited into conversations of social and ethical concern. Too often this can serve to provide cover for activities of uncertain ethical value (see Boston Dynamic and...
What is the role of the arts in AI?
The arts are often invited into conversations of social and ethical concern. Too often this can serve to provide cover for activities of uncertain ethical value (see Boston Dynamic and...

AI and Body, Land, and Diaspora
The underlying experiences of algorithmic culture In 2021 and 2022, UKAI was involved with Goethe-Institut Toronto and our research lead served as program lead of their algorithmic culture programming. The...
AI and Body, Land, and Diaspora
The underlying experiences of algorithmic culture In 2021 and 2022, UKAI was involved with Goethe-Institut Toronto and our research lead served as program lead of their algorithmic culture programming. The...

How can we feel AI?
We need to find more and better ways to talk about, design, and critique AI systems if we hope to avoid repeating the worst excesses of our current society. Our...
How can we feel AI?
We need to find more and better ways to talk about, design, and critique AI systems if we hope to avoid repeating the worst excesses of our current society. Our...

What is Algorithmic Culture?
Algorithms have been designed to deliver agreeableness, an aesthetic of comfort and monotony. Yet, in general, an aesthetic demands a kind of reflective judgement, a contemplative distance. An aesthetic of...
What is Algorithmic Culture?
Algorithms have been designed to deliver agreeableness, an aesthetic of comfort and monotony. Yet, in general, an aesthetic demands a kind of reflective judgement, a contemplative distance. An aesthetic of...