A first drop of our dream line-up, here’s who you can expect to see and hear from at the AIxDESIGN Festival 2025!
Eryk Salvaggio is a researcher and new media artist interested in the social and cultural impacts of artificial intelligence. His work explores the creative misuse of AI and the transformation of archives into datasets for AI training: a practice designed to expose ideologies of tech and to confront the gaps between datasets and the worlds they claim to represent. A blend of hacker, researcher, designer and artist, he has been published in academic journals, spoken at music and film festivals, and consulted on tech policy at the national level. He is a researcher on AI, art and education at the metaLab (at) Harvard University, the Emerging Technology Research Advisor to the Siegel Family Endowment, and a top contributor to Tech Policy Press. He holds an MSc in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and an MSc in Applied Cybernetics from the Australian National University.
www: https://www.cyberneticforests.com/
Jazmin Morris is a Creative Computing Artist and Educator based in London. Her personal practice and research explore representation and inclusivity within technology. She uses free and open-source tools to create digital experiences, highlighting issues around gender, race and power and focusing on the complexities of simulating culture and identity. Jazmin is the Lead Digital Tutor on the Graphic Communication Design course at Central Saint Martins and a Lecturer in Creative Computing & Digital Outreach at UAL’s Creative Computing Institute.
www: https://www.instagram.com/princessjazmin_art
Fabian is a synthographic storyteller who explores the intersection between generative machine learning and storytelling through animation, parody and the remix of internet phenomenon.
Their critical approach to storytelling with generative media is one of embracing the tool’s limitations, exploring nonconformist narratives. Fabian curates an online AI Film Archive and a historic Timeline of image and video generative models. As Synthiola, their synthetic alter-ego, they challenge the mainstream narratives around generative AI by breaking gender norms and fluidly surf the latent space.
www: https://www.fabianmosele.com/about
Caroline Sinders is an award winning critical designer, researcher, and artist. They’re the founder of human rights and design lab, Convocation Research + Design. For the past few years, they have been examining the intersections of artificial intelligence, intersectional justice, harmful design, systems and politics in digital conversational spaces and technology platforms. They’ve worked with the Tate Exchange at the Tate Modern, the United Nations, the UK’s Information Commissioner's Office, the European Commission, Ars Electronica, the Harvard Kennedy School and others. Caroline is currently based between London, UK and New Orleans, USA.
www: https://carolinesinders.com/
Abdelrahman Hassan practises at the intersection of software, critical theory, data, and poetry. He is an applied researcher focusing primarily on algorithmic inequality and decolonial computing. His interests include memetics, internet geographies, technical utopias/dystopias and depictions of e-governance. His overarching goal is to bridge critical theory with digital practice and to limit accessibility gaps and hurdles to open access to knowledge.
Natalia Stanusch is a PhD candidate at UvA, a coordinator for a non-profit DataEthics.eu, and a Research Lead for Esoteric AI stream at AIxDESIGN. Her work delves into digital media artifacts through critical theory, covering topics like memes, algorithmic imaginaries, datafication practices, algorithmic auditing, digital alienation, and the ontology of digital images, and AI counter-imaginaries. She is the author of various book chapters, articles and video essays.
