We sometimes get funding to run commissions or competitions, so we pay when we can. Otherwise donations from activist designers/artists are how we keep going without core funding. Compare an AI image generator’s picture of AI and those in our library and there is a a clear case for paying artists!

Thanks @707kat.bsky.social - we are indeed lurking here and always pleased for interest in contributions!

We have been wanting this for some time, and will be discussing it on a panel for hypestudies.org/conference 10th September! So pleased you like it!

-Niels Bonde: Digital artist and PhD Fellow, University of Applied Arts Vienna
-Rob Keery: CMO, Jagged Edge AI
-@taniaduarte.bsky.social: Founder @weandai.bsky.social

There's still time to enter the competition to change imagery and win prizes-> bit.ly/digitartcomp open to student & amateurs!
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-Jacqueline O'Reilly: Co-Director of the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre @digitcentre.bsky.social
-Maninder Paul: AI Strategist
-Michael Luck: Deputy Vice-Chancellor & Provost @sussex.ac.uk
-Nina Wakeford: Professor of Art @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social
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Our judges represent expertise spanning across the fields of art, journalism, law, academia, AI, to the world of work:

-@benwodecki.bsky.social: Tech and AI Journalist
-@bhumikabilla.bsky.social: Legal researcher, Cambridge Faculty of Law
-Chanell Daniels: Responsible AI #DigitalCatapult
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Poster image credits: Hanna Barakat & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN / betterimagesofai.org / creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...

The competition is open to anyone over the age of 18 regardless of experience, creative field, and geographic location.

An online briefing session will be held on Thursday 17th April at 12pm (UTC +1). Ping us for an invite or recording!

You can download the image for free at betterimagesofai.org/images?artis...
And download the playbook from @aixdesign.bsky.social and Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision blog.betterimagesofai.org/archival-ima...

Laura comments on how the image uncovers the hidden Navajo women's labor behind the assembly of microchips in Silicon Valley – inviting us to confront the oppressive cultural conditions of conception, creation and mediation of the technology industry’s approach to innovation.

Thank you for use of this wonderful image @betterimagesofai.bsky.social Hanna Barakat + AIxDESIGN & Archival Images of AI / Better Images of AI / Data Mining 1 / CC-BY 4.0