As voic (e) scapes, everything evaporates

Contribution to Restless Grounds, a publication of the Slow AI project, bringing together artistic and theoretical contributions that explore speculative futures in relation to algorithmic technologies. Slow AI 

This publication focuses on decolonial, feminist, and kinship-based perspectives to explore how slowness can foster alternative technological imaginaries through material inquiry and artistic research methods.

The project is a collaboration between the  Visual Methodologies Collective (AUAS) and the Algorithmic Cultures Research Group at the Sandberg Institute (GRA), kindly funded by the Centre of Expertise Creative Innovation (CoECI) and supported by ARIAS Amsterdam and the Artificial Worlds group. 

The publication also expands through a podcast,  exploring slowness as a speculative, critical, and embodied mode of engaging with algorithmic technologies. Each episode features a conversation from our research group, comprising artists, writers, and researchers working at the intersection of theory and practice. These conversations emerge from our Material Playgrounds: experimental sessions that explored algorithmic technologies through artistic research, speculation, and collaborative inquiry.

The soundscapes are courtesy of artist and researcher Angelo Custódio and were produced during the Material Playground he hosted, titled “Everything Evaporates.”

Restless Grounds: Speculative Futures on Algorithmic Technologies

ARIAS

(2025)