WORKSHOP: MY AI IS BETTER THAN YOURS WS25

A workshop on the creative application of machine learning
The workshop runs from Monday 6 October to Monday 13 October. It is run from 10 am to 6 pm each day, except on Saturdays and Sundays, in room 3.07.

Who has the better AI? Instead of being intimidated by ChatGPT, Midjourney, and the like, we build our own models.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are fundamentally changing what it means to design—how we design, with which tools, and in which roles. One thing is clear: profound changes are on the way. Exactly what these will look like remains to be seen. This makes it all the more important to understand how these technologies work – and to help shape them critically, creatively, and speculatively.

In this week-long workshop, we will explore the basics of machine learning from an artistic and creative perspective. Instead of letting technology overwhelm us, we will embrace it. We collect our own data—in the form of photographs, drawings, graphics, sounds, music, and other media—and use it to create individual training data sets with which we develop our own small AI models.

To train machine learning systems, it is crucial to provide many examples. In groups, you will develop a large number (approx. 100–200) of training materials – through illustration, photography, sound experiments, or other methods. In doing so, we ask: Where does the potential of these systems lie? Where are their limits? And how can they be used creatively, subversively, or speculatively?

The workshop is intended as an experimental space for self-empowerment and critical discovery – beyond hype, promises of productivity, or dystopian technological euphoria.