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Living Intimately with Machines: Can AI Be Disabled?
“This is not a research project that I chose but rather one that landed on me in 2011 when I learned I was a type 1 diabetic. For four years, from 2018 to 2022, I used one of “the world’s first” automated systems for delivering insulin to manage and control my blood sugar. I identify, research, and write as a disabled cyborg. I am a cyborg not because my body is (partly) made up of machines (the insulin pump and sensor system) but rather because of my interest in cyborg knowledge, practices, and politics [1], which take disability into account in order to question the myth of technological perfectionism and solutionism while at the same time seeking out possibilities for more generative questioning and engagement…”
What does it mean to design AI?
Current design research focuses on the collaboration of designers and AI during the design process. This approach is hindered by the fact that design is only commenting on the collaboration with AI after it has been developed. What does it mean for design to engage with AI during its early development stages? What happens when the problem of developing AI becomes a design problem? During this presentation, Ryan highlighted the shifting role of designers, discussed how it is time to move away from the paradigm of adopting AI into the design process, and introduced how to develop the design process of AI.
Ryan Bruggeman
PhD Student, CAMD
Threads of Assumption: AI-service design and Weaving
Relying on our expertise as artists and designers, we cultivate a meditative space for contributing sensitive stories. Participants experienced how hands-on activities, like writing and weaving, can personalize abstract and sensitive topics and make complexity tangible and accessible. Participants left with a blueprint of best practices for facilitating a workshop for qualitative data collection, tools for integrating physical making into workshop design, and an expanded understanding of how gender bias affects them, their communities, and the service design process.
Sofie Hodara
Artist, Threads of Assumption
Martha Rettig
Artist, Threads of Assumption
U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo
Artist, Threads of Assumption
Maria Finkelmeier
Artist, Threads of Assumption
Images by Brennan Kauffman
Design and AI at Play: Ani Liu and Michelle Millar Fisher on Design as Research
Ani Liu is a research-based artist working at the intersection of art & technoscience. Through her work with emerging technologies, Ani examines the biopolitics of reproduction, labor, care work and motherhood.
Liu’s project A.I. Toys, which explores the role of emergent technologies and how they shape our perceptions of “play,” is featured in Gallery 360’s current exhibition At Play. On Thursday, March 23rd, Ani had a conversation with curator and design historian Michelle Millar Fisher, where they discussed the role of A.I. in developing this project, her research-based artistic practice, and the future of teaching the next generation of designers and thinkers with emergent technologies. To learn more about the current exhibition, “At Play,” click here.
Ani Liu
Keynote Speaker, Interdimensional Artist
Michelle Millar Fisher
Moderator, Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts, MFA Boston
Images by Brennan Kauffman
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