Ariana Dongus
Imaginations of ‘Humanness’ in the context of Refugee Camps
Nackte Gewalt
Whose Minds? Women, Infrastructure & Computational Workers
Kommunikation in Zeiten von Fakenews: Interview mit brandeins
Between Abstraction and Concretization
AI & Language: The Labor of Recognition
Can We Create an Intersectional AI?
Der Krypto Scam mit den Iris Scans
FAQ ChatGPT: Was ein Chatbot nicht weiß
The Hidden Server
The Body as Site of Experimentation: Exploring Technology, Power and Body Politics
Don’t believe the (Criti-)hype
Künstliche Intelligenz im Kontext: The Refugee Camp as Labo(u)ratory
Film, Arbeit und Künstliche Intelligenz
State of Interim – Symposium for Intersection of AI and Art
Multiverse: Fujiko Nakaya & Media Ecologies
AI Infrastructures for Civil Society and the Arts
AI-Newcomer Award 2021
In/visible Subjects of AI: Ghost Work & Biometric Control in the Global South
The living pixel
Nur nicht das Gesicht verlieren
Galton’s Utopia – Data Accumulation in Biometric Capitalism
My Mother Was A Computer
Eye/Machine: From the Panopticon to Biometric Capitalism
Thinking (with) Marx – Gemeinsam das Kapital lesen
Women in Computation
Beyond Biometric Images
Getestet an Millionen Unfreiwilligen
Coding Bootcamps. Programmierer aus dem Flüchtlingscamp
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 2021, awarded by the German Society for Informatics and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
Dongus’s work is dedicated to the social aspects of AI, digital labor exploitation, and invisible infrastructures, aiming to critique today’s digital economies from below. She is currently a Research Fellow at TU Dresden, exploring new forms of labor in relation to machine ‘intelligence’.
