Algorithmic Cultures – Slow AI In this opening episode of Restless Grounds, we dive into the entangled histories of magic, technology, and capital. Our conversation explores how belief systems—from Enlightenment science to tarot, commodity fetishism to algorithmic “intelligence”—shape not only how we relate to technology, but how technologies are designed to relate to us. Host Mariana Fernández Mora is joined by Flavia Dzodan, Zachary Formwalt, and Carlo De Gaetano to think through magical thinking as both a historical foundation for Western science and a critical tool for deconstructing algorithmic systems today.

Algorithmic Cultures – Slow AI The publication Restless Grounds was presented on 15 May 2025 at the Slow AI Symposium Practices of Thinking, Sensing, and Refusing. Edited by Mariana Fernánadez Mora and with contributions by Flavia Dzodan, Carlo De Gaetano, Zachary Formwalt, Mariana Fernánadez Mora, Nell Donkers, Janine Armin, Dorin Budușan, Sofía Fernández Blanco, Elki Boerdam, Mariana Lanari, Angelo Custódio and Orestis Kollyris.

Algorithmic Cultures – Slow AI Join us on 15 May at Framer Framed for Slow AI: Practices of Thinking, Sensing, and Refusing—a day-long symposium reimagining artificial intelligence through artistic practice and the lenses of ethics, relationality, and refusal. The event is free but we need to keep an eye on attendance since we have a limited capacity, so please register here .

Algorithmic Cultures – Slow AI Join research-based artist Angelo Custódio in this last session of the Slow AI Material Playgrounds, where voice becomes a material confluence of the bodymind.

Algorithmic Cultures – Slow AI Every day, we consume hundreds of images. We use them, ignore them, absorb, object and devour them. They are the digital material that shapes our online worlds, seducing us into the pull of our devices.

Algorithmic Cultures – Slow AI For the start of the new season, we are happy to invite you to the first material playground of the Slow AI x Artificial Worlds sessions, organised together with ARIAS and hosted by Dorin Budușan and Sofía Fernández Blanco. The material playground will take place in Auditorium 101 of Sandberg Instituut on September 19th from 9:30 to 13:30. The invitation is open for all Rietveld, Sandberg and HvA students.