AI Ecologies
Key Information
Duration: 2025 -
Participants: Synne Tollerud Bull (leder), Stephanie von Spreter, Eivind Røssaak, Susanne Østby Sæther
Background
AI Ecologies is an interdisciplinary research group exploring the intersections of artificial intelligence, artistic practice, and ecological thinking. The group brings together artists, researchers, and theorists working experimentally and critically across the entangled fields of technology, perception, and the environment.
Ecology, as understood within AI Ecologies, extends beyond the physical environment to encompass relational dynamics, circulations, systems, and sensory configurations. It enables a processual and situated mode of thinking that traverses biological, technological, and cultural domains. Rather than defining ecology as a fixed field, the group approaches it as a method and a sensibility—a way of tracing connections, tensions, and transformations within contemporary machinic, urban, and affective landscapes.
We understand artificial intelligence not only as a technological infrastructure but also as an epistemic regime: a way of seeing, predicting, and shaping the world. At the same time, we explore artistic intelligence as a sensitive, situated, and critical response to these developments. This intelligence works through aesthetic experience, material experimentation, and relational modes of thinking.
AI Ecologies combines artistic practice, fieldwork, and theoretical analysis to investigate how AI—as a perceptual system, aesthetic operation, and material infrastructure—conditions the production and understanding of environments, perception, and knowledge. Through situated, experimental, and critically reflective methods, AI Ecologies develops new approaches to ecological complexity in a technological present shaped by prediction, optimization, and environmental volatility.
AI Ecologies seeks to develop new entry points into ecological complexity in a technological present characterized by prediction, optimization, and environmental uncertainty. Artistic and critical practices are central to the group’s work—both as a methodological driver and as an analytical lens through which to examine contemporary machinic and ecological transformations.
