Project overview
KEE Funded Project
“The Chronicles of Xenosocialist AI” is a collaborative project using methodologies from artistic research, feminist studies of science and technology, as well as creative methods from future studies and science fiction writing.
The project is aimed at creating diverse and inclusive imaginaries of AI for a socially engaged future, calling on feminist and decolonial approaches, as well as artistic research, in order to challenge the exclusion of marginalised voices from the process of developing and imagining AI. Given the current state-of-the-art, where the development of AI is concentrated in the hands of the big tech and is accompanied by the rhetoric of supposed neutrality and objectivity, it is vital to call upon the under-explored potential of critical imagination of feminist and decolonial AI, underpinned by principles of inclusive and diverse idea-on.
The artistic imagination is also crucial for offering innovation and experimentation on a scale that goes beyond product or service development and is politically and socially oriented to the future. Drawing on critical media studies, digital culture, arts and visual culture, the project aims to build interdisciplinary guidelines and produce creative and critical implementations of alternative imaginaries that would create new directions for AI development, asking not only how AI is imagined, but by whom, for whom and for what kind of futures, bringing an urgently needed narrative change to the field of AI. More specifically, the project takes a science fic-on approach to imagining micropolitical narratives, visual cultures, non-state infrastructures and new relationalities of what a potential feminist and decolonial AI could be - named “xenosocialist” in the science-fiction-inflected framework of the project.
“The Chronicles of Xenosocialist AI” is a collaborative project using methodologies from artistic research, feminist studies of science and technology, as well as creative methods from future studies and science fiction writing.
The project is aimed at creating diverse and inclusive imaginaries of AI for a socially engaged future, calling on feminist and decolonial approaches, as well as artistic research, in order to challenge the exclusion of marginalised voices from the process of developing and imagining AI. Given the current state-of-the-art, where the development of AI is concentrated in the hands of the big tech and is accompanied by the rhetoric of supposed neutrality and objectivity, it is vital to call upon the under-explored potential of critical imagination of feminist and decolonial AI, underpinned by principles of inclusive and diverse idea-on.
The artistic imagination is also crucial for offering innovation and experimentation on a scale that goes beyond product or service development and is politically and socially oriented to the future. Drawing on critical media studies, digital culture, arts and visual culture, the project aims to build interdisciplinary guidelines and produce creative and critical implementations of alternative imaginaries that would create new directions for AI development, asking not only how AI is imagined, but by whom, for whom and for what kind of futures, bringing an urgently needed narrative change to the field of AI. More specifically, the project takes a science fic-on approach to imagining micropolitical narratives, visual cultures, non-state infrastructures and new relationalities of what a potential feminist and decolonial AI could be - named “xenosocialist” in the science-fiction-inflected framework of the project.
