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 award-winning artist exploring the social and cultural impact of AI. His work examines AI’s creative misuse, how archives become datasets, and challenges the technocapitalist frames of these technologies. A hybrid of hacker, researcher, designer, and artist, he has published in academic journals, spoken at festivals, and advised on tech policy. He researches AI & art at the Rochester Institute of Technology, with the metaLab (at) Harvard University, and is an emerging technology adviser for the Siegel Family Endowment.
At the festival, Eryk will host the performative lecture “Human Presentation” and co-host and show a film during Friday night’s film screening.
WWW: https://www.cyberneticforests.com/
SOCIALS: https://www.instagram.com/cyberneticforests/
Jazmin Morris is a Creative Computing Artist and Educator based in Leeds. Her work explores the historical roots of modern technology and critically examines human-computer interaction. Using free and open-source tools, she creates participatory digital works that challenge power dynamics in cyberspace, focusing on culture and identity simulation. Despite her critical approach, she enjoys the early internet era and is a big fan of the classic game Super Mario 64.
Discover how unintelligent artificial intelligence can be during the “Artificial Stupidity” session, led by Jazmin Morris and Lex Fefegha.
SOCIALS: https://www.instagram.com/princessjazmin_art
Lex Fefegha is a London-based creative coder and game designer. From experimental games and digital playgrounds to playful chatbots and art installations, Lex's work invites audiences to explore alternative realities, learn through play, and experience new perspectives and emotions. Besides making playful computer things, Lex is an educator (formerly associate lecturer at UAL's Creative Computing Institute and Central Saint Martins), teaching across computational futures, AI, and narrative environments.
Discover how unintelligent artificial intelligence can be during the “Artificial Stupidity” session, led by Lex Fefegha and Jazmin Morris.
SOCIALS: https://www.instagram.com/lexfefegha?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==
Gaston Welisch is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and researcher with a keen interest in exploring the intersections of play, AI, and everyday life. His work plays with technology through creative practices to make complex scientific and societal concepts more accessible and engaging. With a background including graphic design, interaction design, and photography, Gaston creates narratives to provoke critical and delightful engagement with the world around us.
What does AI have to do with augury? Discover that and more at the festival with Gaston’s installation “BIRD” and pop-up session “Augury Birdwalk,” and participate in the “Esoteric AI” talk by Gaston Welisch and Natalia Stanusch.
WWW: https://gaston.pro/
SOCIALS: https://www.instagram.com/gastonwelisch/
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 approach embraces 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.
At the festival, they will co-curate and host the “Film Screening” program at the Netherlands Film Academy and host the pop up AI x Animation Station.
WWW: https://www.fabianmosele.com/about
Caroline Sinders is an award-winning critical designer, researcher, and artist, and the founder of the human rights and design lab Convocation Research + Design. They’ve examined the intersections of AI, 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.
Discover Caroline’s work Potato Internet, as part of the “So Many Small AIs” installation, and join their workshop “Design for Data Rights & Human Rights.”
WWW: https://carolinesinders.com/
SOCIALS: https://www.instagram.com/carolinesinders?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==
