AI GLITCHES, HACKS & UTOPIAS

2025 - Participative Research & Creation with Generative AI

Today, AI often functions as a closed black box that narrows our imagination through invisible rules and biased data. But what if we could crack it open? What if we could use AI’s failures, glitches, and contradictions to create something truly different—alternative narratives that are more inclusive, emancipatory, and radically imaginative?

TRIPOT, a Brussels-based artists’ collective, is exploring exactly this question. We’re not interested in learning how to use AI “correctly.” Instead, we want to discover how to make it fail in interesting ways—ways that reveal its limitations and open up new possibilities for creative expression.

Now, we’re taking this research public through two interconnected events:

Friday, November 28: A Panel Discussion
We’ll gather AI researchers, artists, and critical thinkers to explore a provocative question: Can we use AI to create more inclusive visions of society? But we won’t stop at analyzing problems. We’ll push further—discussing how we might appropriate, sabotage, and transform AI tools to serve emancipatory goals rather than reproduce existing inequalities.

Panel members: Princess Prompt, Che Go Uen, Frederik De Bleser, Andrés Milán Lara, Prof. Simon Fischer

Saturday, November 29: AI vs UTOPIA—A Participatory Workshop by Princess Prompt & TRIPOT
Together, we’ll get our hands dirty. Rather than training ourselves to use AI “properly,” we’ll experiment with making it fail creatively. We’ll build methods to push against AI’s boundaries, amplify its contradictions, and transform it into a medium for subversive, utopian imagination. Through collective experimentation, we’ll explore how AI might help us envision and create alternative forms of living together—societies built on principles of care, equity, and radical inclusion.

Join us in questioning the tools that increasingly shape our world, and in imagining—and creating—something better:

This participatory research is at the heart of our new film essay Being A Creator, which examines reproductive labor, female rage, and inclusive feminism through three types of imagery: historical archives, contemporary social media, and newly generated AI visuals. The AI component challenges us to think differently about how we create and see images of future ourselves and our future societies.