current praxis • recent works

2022–24
Senior Research Associate, AIDesign Lab (Real-World Narratives), Royal College of Art
Developing pedagogical resources to elaborate aspects of AI and computation. Exhibitions and workshops in London and Hong Kong.

2024
AIkonic / Knowing AI, Knowing U
Part of the ESRC-funded Public Voices in AI initiative, this series of 12 workshops with vulnerable youth (through the charity Streets of Growth) and adults (through the mental health charity MIND) explored beliefs, hopes and fears around deployment of AI and related technologies. In collaboration with The People Speak.

2024
AI in My Street?
Public workshops probing attitudes and values around deployment of AI and adjacent technologies in London streets. Part of a BRAID scoping project in association with the universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh & Warwick, and Careful Industries. In collaboration with Yasmine Boudiaf.

2022–24
Artefacts of Resistance
A collaboration with Srilata Sircar (India Institute KCL), Raktim Ray (Bartlett DPU, UCL ) & Ufaque Paiker (Ashoka University) to construct a publicly accessible archive of two recent protests in India – the Farmer’s Protest (2020–21) and Anti CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019–20) protest. The project relies on Soundings (below) for the back end and is part of the Imagining Futures network

2022
Hear/Here to See
Audio-guided walk (via smartphone app) around the political heart of London, featuring encounters with some of the algorithmic systems that impinge upon daily life. In collaboration with Manu Luksch.

2021–23
Soundings
Soundings is an open audio archive with rich metadata structures that permit extensive annotation, collaborative editing, and deep and precise filtering and sorting. The archive brings together diverse voices, sounds and sonic practices from across sectors and territories, and includes field recordings from protests, music, vox pops, interviews, documents and dramatisations of deliberative processes, and conversations with digital assistants. It acts as repository for the Sounds of Democracy podcast series and a sound installation at the Vienna Humanities Festival 2022; more broadly, it is envisaged as a general, powerful tool and resource for researchers and activists working with audio – an instrument with which to probe the concept, specific manifestations, and future of democracy. Soundings is an instantiation of the pan.do/ra open media archive with configuration and hosting support by Jan Gerber of 0x2620.org, and funded by Vienna-based Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM).