Ariana Dongus

Between virtual and real worlds


Panel, Schirn Kunsthalle, 2025

Medien am Rande? Archipelagisches Denken und relationale Technologien


Seminar, 2025

(Un)Learning Digitalities


Input During Workshop, 2025

Experimental Economies of Exclusion


Academic Essay, 2024

Always in Beta? AI, Data, and Labor in Experimental Economies of Exclusion


Keynote , 2024

Imaginations of ‘Humanness’ in the context of Refugee Camps


Lecture, New Practice in Art and Technology, 2024

AI & Language: The Labor of Recognition


Lecture, 2024

Between Abstraction and Concretization


Lecture, 2024

Kommunikation in Zeiten von Fakenews: Interview mit brandeins


2024

Can We Create an Intersectional AI?


Essay, 2024

Nackte Gewalt


Journalist Text, 2024

Whose Minds? Women, Infrastructure & Computational Workers


Seminar, HfK Bremen, 2024

Don’t believe the (Criti-)hype


Essay, 2023

The Hidden Server


Theory-Practice Seminar, 2023/24

FAQ ChatGPT: Was ein Chatbot nicht weiß


Journalist Text, 2023

The Body as Site of Experimentation: Exploring Technology, Power and Body Politics


Compact Course at UdK Berlin, 2023

Der Krypto Scam mit den Iris Scans


Journalist Text, 2024

Künstliche Intelligenz im Kontext: The Refugee Camp as Labo(u)ratory


Lecture, 2023

Film, Arbeit und Künstliche Intelligenz


Lecture & Screening, 2023

State of Interim – Symposium for Intersection of AI and Art


Essay, 2022

Multiverse: Fujiko Nakaya & Media Ecologies


Talk and Panel, 2022

AI Infrastructures for Civil Society and the Arts


Symposium Contribution, 2022

AI-Newcomer Award 2021


Award, 2021

In/visible Subjects of AI: Ghost Work & Biometric Control in the Global South


Course, 2021

The living pixel


Essay, 2020

Nur nicht das Gesicht verlieren


Report, 2020

Galton’s Utopia – Data Accumulation in Biometric Capitalism


Essay, 2019

My Mother Was A Computer


Lecture, 2019

Eye/Machine: From the Panopticon to Biometric Capitalism


Seminar, 2019/20

Thinking (with) Marx – Gemeinsam das Kapital lesen


Reading circle, 2019/20

Women in Computation


Seminar, 2019

Beyond Biometric Images


Guestlecture, 2019

Getestet an Millionen Unfreiwilligen


Reportage, 2017

Coding Bootcamps. Programmierer aus dem Flüchtlingscamp


Report, 2017

Ariana Dongus is a critical media scholar, teacher, and researcher based in Berlin.

Her research has led her to Istanbul, Diyarbekir in Southeastern Turkey, and Northern Iraq, focusing on refugees, migration, and technology. From 2018 to 2022, she was a research associate at the University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe (HfG), where she taught media theory and coordinated KIM, a research group on critical studies of artificial intelligence.

In 2021, she received the AI Newcomer Award, awarded by the German Society for Informatics and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Her work is dedicated to the social aspects of AI, digital labor exploitation, and invisible infrastructures, aiming to critique today’s digital economies from below and exploring new forms of labor in relation to machine ‘intelligence’. She is currently a senior consultant at the German Informatics Society on topics related to AI and data in the fields of politics and science.
 

 

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