Introducing Esoteric AI: Natalia Stanusch
Our Slow AI soup is already cookin and as usual, we love to show faces and ideas behind the scenes, so we asked. 🧐 Who is Natalia? What’s up with Esoteric AI and her POV? Why does she think we need alternative narratives to AI?
🧚♀️ In her research, Natalia Stanusch is interested in studying digital media artifacts by way of critical theory. Stanusch wrote and presented on topics such as memes, algorithmic imaginaries and AI counter-imaginaries, datafication practices, algorithmic auditing, digital alienation, and the ontology of digital images. She is an author of book chapters, articles, and video essays which range in scope from methodological interventions to autoethnographic experimental pieces. Stanusch’s research foci meet at a crossing of critical data and algorithm studies, science and technology studies, digital visual culture, and art history. In her practice, Stanusch often brings together twentieth-century avant-garde legacies and media studies. Currently a PhD candidate at ASCA, University of Amsterdam, Stanusch has also been an academic coordinator for a non-profit DataEthics[dot]eu.
Wait.. what is this all about? 🐌 Slow AI project seeks to unpack and nourish alternative narratives for AI outside Silicon Valley ideologies. Inspired by counter movements like slow fashion and slow food, it aims to “imagine and craft the worlds we cannot live without, just as we dismantle the ones you cannot live within” - Ruha Benjamin.
Slow AI is made possible through the support of Stimuleringsfonds Creative Industries. 🪼