Lisanne Buik / Gracious AI
✦[ Practice ]

Exhibitions 2019-2026

Materialising
future scenarios.

I am a speculative designer as much as an AI ethicist. The ethical stakes of AI remain abstract until you can feel them, touch them, or let them touch you. Future scenarios move beyond statistics on a slide so that people not only understand what is at stake, but feel compelled to act.

Overflow 2032 - Can the sea serve as a role model and agent at the table in decisions about water and land management?
FIG. 1 - ALGAE AWARABLE
Overflow 2032 - Can the sea serve as a role model and agent at the table in decisions about water and land management?
FIG. 2 - ALGAE AWARABLE
Overflow 2032 - Can the sea serve as a role model and agent at the table in decisions about water and land management?
FIG. 3 - ALGAE AWARABLE
001 /2032 (a scenario)

Overflow 2032

Can the sea serve as a role model and agent at the table in decisions about water and land management?

I advise the Dutch government on the use of AI in future policy. In the project OVERFLOW 2032 we explore nature-inclusive concepts for land and water management in the light of climate change.

Exhibited at NIEUWSPOORT Den Haag in 2022 and Future of Work Foundation.

  • Foresight
  • Speculative design
  • AI
  • Biomaterials

A project in collaboration with Bela Rofe, Anne Sarah Dijkhorst and Ghazaleh Saleh for the Province of Zeeland.

Grace ŒS - A short film and audiovisual installation enveloping visitors in the Amorphocene.
Fig. 1 - Grace ŒS, installation view, Doornburgh 2021
Grace ŒS - A short film and audiovisual installation enveloping visitors in the Amorphocene.
Fig. 2 - Grace ŒS, film still
Grace ŒS - A short film and audiovisual installation enveloping visitors in the Amorphocene.
Fig. 3 - Grace ŒS, film still
Grace ŒS - A short film and audiovisual installation enveloping visitors in the Amorphocene.
Fig. 4 - Grace ŒS, publication
002 /2021 - ongoing

Grace ŒS

A short film and audiovisual installation enveloping visitors in the Amorphocene.

GRACE ŒS (BETA) is a short film and audiovisual art installation enveloping visitors in a future world, the AMORPHOCENE. In this post-anthropocentric era humans have learned to design technologies indistinguishable from nature.

Exhibited at Buitenplaats Doornburgh in 2021. Screening inquiries.

  • SHORT FILM
  • AUDIOVISUAL INSTALLATION
  • PUBLICATION

Artist / Founder: Lisanne Buik Assistant Researcher + Textile Artist: Bela Rofe Graphic Design / Art Direction: Tom Schwaiger Technical Direction / 3D Artist: Oliver Ellmers Sound Design: Harmen Sipkema & Ard Janssen Voice Artist: Anyah Sealey

Next Senses - A critical design project into the ethics of sensor technology and bodily sovereignty.
Fig. 1 - Whalesense, film still
Next Senses - A critical design project into the ethics of sensor technology and bodily sovereignty.
Fig. 2 - Artificial Empathy, film still
Next Senses - A critical design project into the ethics of sensor technology and bodily sovereignty.
Fig. 3 - Babycode, film still
Next Senses - A critical design project into the ethics of sensor technology and bodily sovereignty.
Fig. 4 - Synesthesia, film still
Next Senses - A critical design project into the ethics of sensor technology and bodily sovereignty.
Fig. 5 - Wifi Angels, film still
003 /2019

Next Senses

A critical design project into the ethics of sensor technology and bodily sovereignty.

NEXT SENSES is a critical design project into the ethics of sensor technology and bodily sovereignty in the age of technology. In collaboration with Next Nature Network and Alain de Bruijn.

Exhibited at Labyrinth of the Senses (Sept. 2019) and van Gogh Museum Amsterdam (Nov. 2019).

  • Critical design
  • Film
  • Installation

COMMISSIONED BY CITYSENSES. SUPPORTED BY: RABOBANK, PRINS BERNHARD CULTUURFONDS, CULTUURFONDS ALMERE, GEMEENTE ALMERE, ANBI, ARC2 ARCHITECTEN, AMR, VOORDEKUNST, TSR, ACTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION.

Co-Emerging Economies - Radical perspectives on post-anthropocentric economies.
Fig. 1 - Co-Emerging Economies, cover
Co-Emerging Economies - Radical perspectives on post-anthropocentric economies.
Fig. 2 - Co-Emerging Economies, back cover
004 /Book

Co-Emerging Economies

Radical perspectives on post-anthropocentric economies.

Together with Philips Design and Baltan Laboratories, a collaborative platform for future thinking that places art and design research at the core of its activities, we developed a series of workshops around the Co-Emerging Futures Report by Reon Brand, which led to the collaborative publication: "Co-Emerging Economies, exploring radical perspectives on post-anthropocentric economies".

  • Publication
  • Workshops
  • Research

With contributions by Godelieve Spaas, Lisanne Buik, René van Peer, Sunjoo Lee, Leif Czakai, Cynthia Hathaway, Elise Talgorn, Bea Xu, Yannik Güldner and Michal Mitro.

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