​*and by Small AI, we mean locally-run AI but we'll get more into that in this session.

​Join the artists of Small AI – Gabriella Garcia and Arnab Chakravarty of Project d33pthroat – for a 3-hour working session. You will leave with:

• ​a better understanding of when and why Small AI might work better for you; and

• ​a locally-run and personalised AI model, not connected to the cloud, running on your own device.

​Let’s play in the computer dirt together on 📆 10th December at 18:00 CET

​​​ABOUT SLOW AI PROJECT

​​​​​​In this project, we will interrogate and publish critical AI discourse in a format that makes sense to us and our practices, namely zines and creative technology installations. Inspired by the counter-movements of slow fashion and slow food, this project will investigate three emerging AI counter-narratives –Small AI 🐜, Ancestral AI 🐚, and Esoteric AI 🔮 – and explore what it might look like to incorporate them in our everyday practice.

​​​​​​At project end we will publish an anthology – a hot compost pile of miro boards, zines, and art that we hope sparks new ways to think and talk about AI.

​​​​​​Follow this page to stay up-to-date on Slow AI. Slow AI is made possible by Stimuleringsfonds <3

​​​​​🐜 ABOUT SMALL AI

​​​​​Lead by researcher Nadia Nadesan, Small AI questions the dominance of large-scale models by addressing environmental impact, discriminatory language, and cultural preservation. It’s an invitation to use notions of fractals, friction, and fragmented-ness in nature and math to inspire ideas around Small AI and send ripples that shift practices around Big AI. It advocates for equitable, sustainable alternatives, prompting exploration of community-focused governance, and interconnectedness as pathways to more just futures. In this research we ask: What is possible when our objective is cultural creation and preservation instead of scale or profit?

​​​​​🐜 About Gabriella Garcia

​​Gabriella Garcia is a creative researcher with over a decade of experience of sharing stories about networked subcultures and technologically-enabled intimacy. She is currently developing a practice that uses speculative fiction and magical realism to gather sex workers together over designing futures toward potential real-world solutions. Between 2020-’24 she directed Decoding Stigma, a collective prioritizing erotic labor as a necessary ethics question for futurists. Her expanded practice includes techno-feminist research, community-centered archiving, multimedia performance art, and poetic technology. As a performance artist, Gabriella works to create spaces ruled by vulnerability.

​​​​​🐜 About Arnab Chakravarty

​​Arnab is a designer and creative technologist with a passion for building what he designs. He holds a Master’s degree from ITP, NYU, where he was an Accessibility Researcher at NYU’s Ability Lab and an Artist-in-residence at Carnegie Mellon University. Currently, he is developing a game that explores the human impact of AI as part of his Creative Media Award from the Mozilla Foundation. Arnab is also the technical director of Broken Ghost Immersives, a theater collective blending immersive theater, escape rooms, and games, with his work showcased at prestigious venues like the India Art Fair and Kochi Biennale.

​​​​ABOUT AIxDESIGN

​​​​​​AIxDESIGN (AIxD) is a global community of designers, researchers, creative technologists, and activists using AI in pursuit of creativity, justice and joy and living lab exploring participatory, slow, and more-than-corporate AI. Learn more at aixdesign.co.