Antikythera Studios deploy a deeply interdisciplinary speculative design methodology that uses scenarios to surface counterintuitive concepts and develop key research themes through propositions that move technological speculation beyond simplistic utopian and dystopian agendas. „Cognitive Infrastructures“ is the theme for the 2024 Synthetic Intelligence Design-Development Studio in London.
Cognitive Infrastructures are forming, framing, and evolving a new ecology of planetary intelligence. What kind of design space is this? What does it afford, enable, produce, and delimit? When AIs are simultaneously platforms, applications and users, what are the interfaces between society and its intelligent simulations? How can we understand AI Alignment not as just AI bending to society, but how societies evolve in relationship to AI? What kinds of Cognitive Infrastructures might be revealed and composed? The interdisciplinary studio will combine philosophy design and code and so applications are encouraged from applicants with diverse expertises. These can include computer science, AI, philosophy, interaction design, architecture, systems design, economics, linguistics, history of science and technology, digital media, filmmaking and more.
The studio will be held full time, in-person at Central Saint Martins — University of the Arts London. It will begin with an orientation the evening of Friday June 21st, and then run full time from June 24th to July 19th 2024. Studio Researchers will receive a stipend of 4000 GBP, and should ensure they have the right to work in the UK.
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