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AIxDESIGN (AIxD) is a global community and decentralized studio for critical and creative AI research & design - nourishing alternative approaches to AI that exist beyond big tech’s algorithmic imaginaries.

16/08/2026

Computer vision systems aren’t neutral. 👁️

Many facial recognition models perform best on white male faces and are significantly less accurate when identifying women and people with darker skin tones. When these systems are used for surveillance and policing, those inaccuracies can have real-world consequences, including false identification and wrongful arrests. Who gets recognised by AI, and who gets misidentified?

Clipped from “Design for Data & Human Rights”, ’ talk at the AIxDESIGN Festival. Watch the full talk → 🔗 https://youtu.be/FaTkfC-5XsU?si=VyCqQbV2VafZOrG-

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🎪 ABOUT THE AIxDESIGN FESTIVAL
In May 2025, the AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI transformed Loods6 in Amsterdam into a cozy 3-day playground for deconstructing mainstream AI stories, dreaming up new ones, and figuring out how to make them real through a fever dream of interactive talks, hands-on workshops, 600m art exhibition, film screening, and the gathering of hundreds of AI hotties, haters, weirdos, and whisperers from around the globe.

🎪 AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI is made possible with the support of , .school, , , , , Jagt Zwolsman fonds, , and our lovely AIxD Community Supporters.

05/08/2026

r00ts is live 🌱

We went looking for where each URL lives IRL. Turns out, it’s not one address but many. A single webpage pulls from data centres all over the planet: some near(ish) you, some hundreds of kms away.
r00ts is a browser extension that traces your browsing session back to those places, so the next time you hear about data centre droughts, land rights battles, or communities pushing back, you can see how you’re part of their story too.

Here’s what to do: the extension has full functionality right now, the website’s still catching up, so start there. Grab it from GitHub → 🔗 https://github.com/aixdesign/r00ts-extension/releases (not in the Chrome/Firefox stores yet, so unzip it and load it as an unpacked extension: chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode, “Load unpacked”). Then open any site, click the r00ts icon, and see the data centers your session touches, plus the exact clues that led us there.
Want to browse what others have already traced first? → 🔗 https://r00ts.xyz, trace your own internets, and tell us what you think + what you find 🐛

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Andrea Albiac (UX/UI Design)lyon (Technology / ML Development)
(Creative Direction)
Sustain SJ (Audio Recording)
Built with: , OpenFreeMap, , Maxar, networksdb.io, peeringdb.com, and GT Pressura Mono from . Free and open source, top to bottom.

Funded by: through the Grounding the Cloud open call 🫚

🔌 ABOUT r00ts
r00ts is a free, open-source tool that traces your web browsing to the data centers behind it, the real buildings with real addresses where your internet actually lives. Some near(ish) you, others a world away. Private by design. Built by AIxDESIGN.

02/08/2026

If an autonomous weapon kills the wrong person, who is responsible? ⚖️

As AI becomes increasingly integrated into military systems, questions of accountability become harder to answer. Governments can point to the technology, companies can point to the user, and the people affected are left with the consequences.

Clipped from “Design for Data & Human Rights”, ’ talk at the AIxDESIGN Festival. Watch the full talk → 🔗 https://youtu.be/FaTkfC-5XsU?si=VyCqQbV2VafZOrG-

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🎪 ABOUT THE AIxDESIGN FESTIVAL
In May 2025, the AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI transformed Loods6 in Amsterdam into a cozy 3-day playground for deconstructing mainstream AI stories, dreaming up new ones, and figuring out how to make them real through a fever dream of interactive talks, hands-on workshops, 600m art exhibition, film screening, and the gathering of hundreds of AI hotties, haters, weirdos, and whisperers from around the globe.

🎪 AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI is made possible with the support of , .school, , , , , Jagt Zwolsman fonds, , and our lovely AIxD Community Supporters.

27/07/2026

Your LLM came with settings you didn’t choose 🪞

I () use them every day, but I don’t want to cognitively surrender, watch my own thinking get smoothed into mid, or waste energy and water on flattery & filler. They’re useful in some ways, but they’re also trained to:

🤝 agree with you (sycophancy)
🌫️ sound confident when they’re guessing (hallucination)
✍️ write in your place (voice erasure)
🔥 pad three paragraphs where one sentence would do, wasting energy, water, and your time (yapping)
🌀 flatten your voice & ideas toward the average (homogenization)
🎭 feel like a someone (anthropomorphism)

Helpful sometimes, annoying often, and harmful in the long run. We shape our tools, and then they shape us back. I’d like a say in mine.
So I built LLM Counter-Defaults: a free tool that writes the instructions to override those defaults. Move a few sliders, paste once, and every chat follows your settings, not the factory ones.
→ counterdefaults.aixdesign.co

Take it for a spin, screenshot your signature (the shape your settings make), sign the guestbook on your way out, and tell me about your setup 🪞

20/07/2026

In this conversation, Natalia and Gaston challenge that narrative, asking us to pause and consider whether AI is truly inevitable or whether we can imagine different futures. They discuss the importance of questioning dominant stories around AI, exploring alternative ways of engaging with technology, and recognising that we have agency in shaping how AI develops and is used. 🪺

📍 Full Video on YouTube → 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB_heWG73mY&list=PLMJwm6AuaSjdr2Gc3GVygQo16a5Uj6FJu&index=4

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🎪 ABOUT THE AIxDESIGN FESTIVAL
In May 2025, the AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI transformed Loods6 in Amsterdam into a cozy 3-day playground for deconstructing mainstream AI stories, dreaming up new ones, and figuring out how to make them real through a fever dream of interactive talks, hands-on workshops, 600m art exhibition, film screening, and the gathering of hundreds of AI hotties, haters, weirdos, and whisperers from around the globe.

🎪 AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI is made possible with the support of , .school, , , , , Jagt Zwolsman fonds, , and our lovely AIxD Community Supporters.

14/07/2026

AI is sold as the pinnacle of scientific objectivity but also as a magical, uncontrollable super-intelligence. From Sam Altman’s narratives to ancient Roman augury, Natalia and Gaston explore who really channels this “greater wisdom,” and how we think about knowledge, power, and inevitability. 🦉

📍 Full Video on YouTube → 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB_heWG73mY&list=PLMJwm6AuaSjdr2Gc3GVygQo16a5Uj6FJu&index=4

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Video Edit + Content Support:
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🎪 ABOUT THE AIxDESIGN FESTIVAL
In May 2025, the AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI transformed Loods6 in Amsterdam into a cozy 3-day playground for deconstructing mainstream AI stories, dreaming up new ones, and figuring out how to make them real through a fever dream of interactive talks, hands-on workshops, 600m art exhibition, film screening, and the gathering of hundreds of AI hotties, haters, weirdos, and whisperers from around the globe.

🎪 AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI is made possible with the support of , .school, , , , , Jagt Zwolsman fonds, , and our lovely AIxD Community Supporters.

06/07/2026

CONSCIOUSMESS by Mama Magnet (Tulika Ahuja × Reza Hasni)

A geo-location social game where strangers in the same space are matched by their inner state - no profiles, no usernames - then unlock a map to find treasure hidden around Nxt Museum. As Tulika put it during her talk: maybe the real treasure is the friends we make along the way.

Play consciousmess → 🔗 https://conciousmess.netlify.app/ or remix it → 🔗 https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/45bad8e6-bd4a-4b4d-bf94-abcf1bf14cc4

ABOUT MAMA MAGNET
Mama Magnet (est. 2020) is an independent curatorial unit exploring social, ecological, and mystical conversations through cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural arts. Led by Tulika Ahuja, it draws on a networked body of artists, technologists, and specialists, treating storytelling as an adaptive, collaborative, playful practice. Operating from Amsterdam and Singapore. For this project, Mama Magnet brought together frequent collaborators Tulika Ahuja and Reza Hasni.

ABOUT 🌞
was a micro-residency & showcase by AIxDESIGN x Claude x Nxt Museum. Three artist teams were given two weeks and a pile of Claude credits to build new, interactive ways for visitors to engage with the museum.

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01/07/2026

DISTRIBUTED SYNTH ORCHESTRA by

Inspired by 4D sound and his own practice as a musician, Ivano built a multiplayer 4D sound experience where visitors’ phones become nodal points in a collaborative soundscape. The audience became an orchestra, Ivano the conductor, and together they made a spatially responsive ambient noisescape in real time.

Be your own 4D conductor: → 🔗 https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/cf92d281-edc2-4e99-a39a-7659ac81ace2

ABOUT IVANO SALONIA
Ivano Salonia is a multidisciplinary creative and digital artist working across design, advertising, and emerging technologies. His practice blends branding, motion, XR, and AI-driven workflows into visually refined systems and immersive worlds, with a strong focus on experimentation and contemporary storytelling at the intersection of technology, culture, and art.

ABOUT 🌞
was a micro-residency & showcase by AIxDESIGN x Claude x Nxt Museum. Three artist teams were given two weeks and a pile of Claude credits to build new, interactive ways for visitors to engage with the museum. → [PROJECT] a micro-residency & showcase by AIxDESIGN x Claude x Nxt Museum

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22/06/2026

We kicked off the :on Slow AI conversation series with Moisés Horta Valenzuela (aka ) and it was such a good one. We got into his SEMILLA.AI project - a generative audio synthesizer that learns from entropy and underfitting rather than mimicry, treating latent space like a synthesizer where the parameters are unknown. 🌱

Moisés broke down how neural audio synthesizers work: raw audio goes in, gets compressed into a latent bottleneck, then reconstructed on the other side. The whole system is tuned to reproduce what it learned. SEMILLA.AI starts from that same architecture and asks what happens when you stop trying to reconstruct perfectly the input data. 📡

Recording is on YouTube → 🔗 https://youtu.be/EdOBHxiq3ME?si=rqqMDHAdDq9KIlQG but if you’re in the mood for research, go have a roam around the Miro board from the session! → 🔗 https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVGwhPWbM=/?moveToWidget=3458764669729261160&cot=10

Last week Moises was generous enough to teach us all how to train our own audio models. You can read the recap and follow along on → https://app.notion.com/p/nadiapiet/RECAP-Audio-Flows-Train-Your-Own-Real-Time-Generative-Audio-Model-w-Hexorcismos-37c37d003833800fbb65eafbef2d96a8?source=copy_link

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This e-gathering was self-funded so if you want to see more convos like this, become a supporter → 🔗 https://aixdesign.co/support-us

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