Date/Time
June 30, 2025
All Day

AI systems threaten to extend the hegemony of binary heteronormative gender conceptions and western values across the globe, colonising the internet with perceptions, practices and probabilities. As these systems increasingly automate and reinforce histories and futures of intersectional exclusion, this project explores how the critical humanities and practice-based artistic research methods can intervene, disrupt and challenge such systems – prototyping counternarratives. A series of critical design experiments apply tactics from techno-feminism, alternative datasets and female writing. These experiments form the base for an interdisciplinary seminar, as well as a collaborative more-than-human theatre play that blurs the boundaries of human/machine and audience/acting.

In the framework of the project, this hybrid theory-practice workshop in Berlin brought together participants across universities and disciplines in Berlin and Oxford to exchange perspectives, formulate new questions, and to discuss topics and tactics for exploring alternative AI inspired by women’s writing, Fluxus and Dada, Data- and Glitch Feminism.

Michelle Christenen (UdK Berlin / TU Berlin), Florian Conradi (UdK Berlin / FU Berlin), Gesche Joost (UdK Berlin), Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Kathryn Eccles (Oxford Internet Institute), Anette Jael Lehmann (FU Berlin).