Ariana Dongus
(Un)Learning Digitalities
Experimental Economies of Exclusion
Always in Beta? AI, Data, and Labor in Experimental Economies of Exclusion
Imaginations of ‘Humanness’ in the context of Refugee Camps
AI & Language: The Labor of Recognition
Between Abstraction and Concretization
Kommunikation in Zeiten von Fakenews: Interview mit brandeins
Can We Create an Intersectional AI?
Nackte Gewalt
Whose Minds? Women, Infrastructure & Computational Workers
Don’t believe the (Criti-)hype
The Hidden Server
FAQ ChatGPT: Was ein Chatbot nicht weiß
The Body as Site of Experimentation: Exploring Technology, Power and Body Politics
Der Krypto Scam mit den Iris Scans
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, 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.
