(web) Design against AI (scrapers)

d*sign against AI

Workshop @ Kulturverein zur Schießhalle
Wednesday 26 Nov
14:00 ‑ 17:00

Project Description

In this workshop participant learn design and web hosting strategies explicitly developed to oppose the predatory nature of AI sytems, namely the reckless scraping of web-content that affects any publicly reacheable web content. A first overview of how AI appropriates content for training is followed by a presentation of existing server-side counterstrategies to detect AI agents performing unwanted web scraping. After the detection phase, we’ll focus on the kind of reaction to malicious scrapers and which content can be delivered to them. Finally, we will design websites to be served to the unwanted scrapers, discussing together how to refuse the global-scale appropriation of content performed by the AI industry.

Please bring a laptop if possible.

Registration Link

https://umfrage.servus.at/index.php/639133

Davide Bevilacqua

Artist Bio

Davide Bevilacqua is a media artist and curator interested in network infrastructures and technological activism, as well as experimental presentation formats for artistic work and research. His current research deals with the environmental and social impact of internet technologies and platforms, looking critically at digital greenwashing and seeking escape routes from platform capitalism. Davide is currently manager & curator at servus.at, an association dealing with open source internet infrastructure and online art and culture (https://core.servus.at). He organizes the community festival AMRO Art Meets Radical Openness since 2018 (https://radical-openness.org) and the d*signweek (https://dsignweek.servus.at) since 2021. Davide teaches Sustainable IT at Interface Cultures and Labor at Visual Communication at University for Art and Design Linz. He is member of the association board of the Festival der Regionen (https://fdr.at/, of the program board the Festival LINZ FMR (https://linzfmr.at/).

Online Links

web: https://core.servus.at
masto: https://social.servus.at/@servus

Michal Klodner

Artist Bio

I am moving from the field of audiovisual live performances and experimental film to forest gardening, building livinglab and back. With a background in information science and coding, I was among the founders and currently a curator of node9.org digital community server and online gallery. My practice involves writing on online activism, digital curation or postmediality, as part of creating networks based on trust in those fields. In the recent projects on the role of artistic research in sustainability I go into computational aspects of media art in relation to ecosystems and more than human natureculture communities, trying to develop livinglab as an interdisciplinary method of nondestructive living-research in nature and wilderness.

Online Links

web: https://biophilicresearch.net/channel/leaf