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AI Cafe #2: Franziska Thurner / Behind the Pixels – AI image generators and their bias

When: 16th December at 18:00
Where: servus.at Clubraum. c/o Stadtwerkstatt, Kirchengasse 4, 4040 Linz

In this talk Franziska Thurner addresses how AI image generators work and to what extent they reinforce and reproduce social prejudices. AI training data consists of billions of internet posts and reflects existing social discrimination (sexism, racism, ableism, classism). During the AI Café, prompts are written and image generators are tried out – the results are analysed in a joint discussion with regard to gender, digital colonialism, resources and climate protection.

The AI Café is part of the collaborative project ‘Critical Digitalisation for Art and Culture / Theater Phoenix x servus.at’ and is being realised as part of the AI in Theater Phoenix project through the AI in Art and Culture funding programme

d*sign week 2025

Mon, 24/11/2025 - 10:00 to Sun, 30/11/2025 - 21:00

For who(m) is the making?
d*sign week 2025
24th – 30th November 2025

For whom do we design? And who has actually access to the tools for making?
How can we combine accessibility with the evolving language of visual communication?
d*sign week is a festival for experimental and independent design. The 2025 edition features workshops, lectures and conversations on design tools, graphic software and autonomous printing and publishing processes. Its programme investigates how access, participation and inclusion can be values that guide the making.

Programme details at: dsignweek.servus.at