(A)I do (not?) Care
— INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP
Friday, 20 November 2026, 10:30 || CINETIC UNATC, Tudor Arghezi Str. 3-B
Satellite Event of the Ai in Art Practices and Research Conference 2026
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reorganising societies in several respects including ones pertaining labour, legal and ethical responsibility, economic and cultural value, democracy, power, or the arts. Its promises of efficiency depend on extractive data practices at a scale never seen before and further practices that are very often seen as boosting digital colonialism, surveillance, climate collapse, and the disproportional concentration of economic and computational power. This workshop approaches such affairs by way of the ‘Atlas of Care’ card game. Atlas of Care has been developed as part of the COST Action CA21102 Toolkit of Care, with the specific aim to afford focused reflection and discussion sessions pivoting on broader concerns of care and responsibility vis-á-vis technology, politics, and contemporary culture.
FACILITATORS
Marinos Koutsomichalis and Doros Polydorou co-lead the Media Arts and Design Research Lab (MADLab) at the Cyprus University of Technology, where artistic practice, technology and research inform one another.
Dr Marinos Koutsomichalis is an artist, researcher and Assistant Professor in Creative Multimedia. His work combines situated creative practice, bespoke software and hardware, fieldwork, critical theory, live performance and DIWO (Do It With Others) workshops. It revolves around material inquiry, self-erasure and the quest for post-selfhood through networks of human and more-than-human actors. He has presented work, led workshops and given talks more than 400 times worldwide, from museums, biennales and concert halls to industrial sites and squats, and has released more than 15 albums and two art books. He holds a PhD from De Montfort University and has held research posts at NTNU (Norway) and the University of Turin.
Dr Doros Polydorou is an Associate Professor, creative coder and digital artist working with immersive technologies, storytelling, and more recently robotics and AI. With a background in multimedia design and computer animation, he has worked in universities in Singapore, the UK and Cyprus. His work has been shown at Sadler’s Wells and the Watermans Gallery in London and across Europe and Asia, and has been published in Digital Creativity, the SIGGRAPH Asia Art Gallery and Ars Electronica’s Kepler’s Garden. His research explores narratives, artefacts and robotic objects in site-specific performances and installations.
