Politics of AI – Workshop with Helena Nikonole

19/03/2025

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Sat, 29 March 2025, 12 – 6 pm
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Location:
Art Laboratory Berlin
Prinzenallee 34,
13359 Berlin

The hands-on workshop Politics of AI with artist and researcher Helena Nikonole explores how Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, as well as text-to-image AI systems, reproduce biases and embed political ideologies. Participants will experiment with AI-generated responses to politically charged prompts, analyze biases in text-based AI outputs, and examine how these biases extend into AI-generated imagery.

Through practical exercises, we will critically assess how AI models shape narratives, reinforce stereotypes, and amplify bias through a feedback loop. Helena Nikonole will share her insights and artistic methodology, demonstrating how artistic research can serve as a critical tool for exposing and subverting AI biases.

She will present her experiments based on the misuse of technology—intentionally pushing AI systems beyond their intended applications to reveal their ideological underpinnings and structural limitations.

By creatively challenging these systems, participants will gain hands-on experience in both critical analysis and artistic experimentation, exploring how artistic interventions can uncover hidden biases and provoke discussions on AI ethics.

About Helena Nikonole:

Helena Nikonole is a new media artist, independent curator and educator currently based between Berlin and Istanbul. Her field of interests embraces AI, hacktivism, hybrid art and bio-semiotics. One part of her work is dedicated to utopian scenarios of post-human future while another is focused on dystopian present and critical approach to technology.

She presents lectures and workshops in the field of Art & Science. She also covers AI & art at different institutions. Her engagements include Paris College of Arts, Mutek Festival (Montreal and Tokyo), Leiden University, and IMAL (Brussels). There are many others as well. Her artistic work has been presented internationally by institutions and festivals such as Ars Electronica 2019 and 2022, ZKM Museum (Karlsruhe), CTM Festival (Berlin), Athens Digital Art Festival, Kapelica Gallery (Ljubljana), Chronus Art Center (Shanghai), Drugo More (Rijeka), “YouFab Creative Award 2019 Winners Exhibition”, SHIBUYA QWS (Tokyo), Open Source Body Festival 2022 (Paris), Warsaw Biennial 2022 etc.

More information: https://nikonole.com/

This event is part of Helena Nikonole’s research in collaboration with Art Laboratory Berlin in the framework of a fellowship funded by the programme Weltoffenes Berlin the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

Art Laboratory Berlin Prinzenallee 34, 13359 Berlin

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