Slow AI Symposium 15 May 2025
11:00 - 18:30
Symposium: Slow AI – Practices of Thinking, Sensing, and Refusing
Join us on 15 May at Framer Framed for Slow AI: Practices of Thinking, Sensing, and Refusing, a day-long symposium reimagining artificial intelligence through artistic practice and the lenses of ethics, relationality, and refusal. Structured around three thematic blocks, the symposium pairs brief presentations with extended collective conversations, bringing together artists, theorists, designers, and technologists working across disciplines and tempos.
Over the past year, the Slow AI research project has unfolded across Material Playgrounds: collaborative sessions exploring divination, somatics, sound, storytelling, and more. This gathering marks a moment to reflect on the first year of the project, to think together about AI not as an inevitable force or a tool to be optimised, but as a cultural and relational object that entangles with ecological, political and cultural environments.
The program features contributions by Elki Boerdam, Sofía Fernández Blanco, Dorin Budușan and Mariana Lanari, and dialogues including Carlo De Gaetano, Janine Armin, Zachary Formwalt, Flavia Dzodan, Pablo Nuñez Palma and Christian Olesen. The event is moderated by Sabine Niederer, Mariana Fernánadez Mora and Patricia de Vries.
The day closes with the launch of Restless Grounds: Speculative Futures on Algorithmic Technologies, a publication and podcast exploring slowness as a speculative, critical, and embodied mode of engaging with algorithmic technologies.
Launched in Jan 2024 with support from the Centre of Expertise Creative Innovation (CoECI) Partnercall voor Experimenten, Slow AI began as a collaboration between the Visual Methodologies Collective (AUAS) and the Algorithmic Cultures Research Group (Sandberg Institute), with additional support from the ARIAS Artificial Worlds group.
This event is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Please RSVP here.
Programme
11:00–11:10 — Walk-in
11:10–11:20 — Welcome by Mariana Fernández Mora
11:20–11:35 — Introduction to AI² by Nanne van Noord
✦ Block 1
11:35–11:40 — Intro
11:40–11:55 — Presentation: Elki Boerdam
11:55–12:55 — Conversation with Carlo De Gaetano, Pablo Nuñez Palma and Patricia de Vries
12:55–13:55 — Lunch Break
✦ Block 2
13:55–14:00 — Welcome back
14:00–14:15 — Presentation: Dorin Budușan & Sofía Fernández Blanco
14:15–15:15 — Conversation with Zachary Formwalt, Janine Armin, and Mariana Fernández Mora
15:15–15:30 — Short Break
✦ Block 3
15:30–15:35 — Intro
15:35–15:50 — Presentation: Mariana Lanari
15:50–16:50 — Conversation with Flavia Dzodan, Christian Olesen, and Sabine Niederer
16:50–17:05 — Podcast & Publication Launch
17:05–17:20 — Zine Introduction by Andy Dockett
17:20–18:30 — Drinks & Informal Closing
Democracy, Digital Commons & Digital Autonomy / Politics and technology /
Network
Mariana Fernández Mora
Artist, Researcher
Patricia de Vries
Professor, Researcher
Dorin Budușan
Artist
Nanne van Noord
Professor, Researcher
Sabine Niederer
Professor, Researcher
