BreAIk, ChAInge, RegenerAIte is an art-technology residency that invites artists, cultural producers, designers, and creative professionals to see how AI creates our worlds rather than seeing the world through AI. Engaging with multiple AI stakeholders – technology developers, regulators, entrepreneurs, and activists – the cohort is invited to insert Art in Artificial Intelligence. The invitation is to reposition ourselves in relation to these AI systems.

The current dominant trends driven by the rapid proliferation and adoption of cheap, accessible, and easily available AI systems, is to focus entirely on the application of these technologies and their consequences. Anxieties around creativity, Intellectual Property, skills, automation, future of work, misinformation, automated decision making, weaponization, and polarization often surface when thinking of emerging AI technologies.

Our ways of being and knowing are unsettled by these new practices which are intentionally designed to disrupt, break, and reconfigure our everyday lives. We seek to destabilize this relationship where we accept AI technologies as a given and only focus on how to use them. We call to actively examine and understand AI systems as expressions of power architected through digital technologies – Which means that they can be questioned, undone, and remade.