The ‘radicareful’ AICON movement connects citizens, artists, and researchers in an exploration of the social-beneficial potential and challenges of AI. This collaborative project focuses on empowering communities, allowing citizens to discover what defines their environment and how they engage with the world.
Is it art, science or citizen participation? AICON is about co-creation of concepts that do not fit within those traditional demarcated frameworks. We hope that this will ultimately contribute to the democratization of AI, making AI understandable and accessible to all. Moreover, AICON encourages all social stakeholders to be open to a different way of working together and to explore how we want to organize our society together and what values we value.
AICON was initiated by Erasmus Professor Moniek Buijzen, for the Erasmus Initiative Societal impact of AI (AiPact). This is an open invitation to engage. Scroll down for more information and contact options.
AlgoSoc x AICON
Part of the world seems to focus on accelerating for the sake of accelerating, but team AlgoSoc x AICON prefer the way of the SNaiL: taking it slow yet determined. After all, we firmly believe the process is as relevant as the outcome.
At The Future of Public Values in the Algorithmic Society, the first international conference by AlgoSoc - a collaboration between the universities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Delft, Utrecht and Tilburg - at Felix Meritis in Amsterdam, AICON was invited to do what AICON does: exploring and interacting at the intersection of science, art and society by bottom-up cocreating in order to create awareness, inspire and collaborate.
An open call within the AlgoSoc consortium resonated with a hyperdiverse team of scholars. A beautiful transdisciplinary and transgenerational journey of exchanging experiences, ideas and perspectives and embracing discomfort that resulted into incorporating art with science.
Make haste slowly
Carefully curated artworks, a zine, bingo cards and a Recharge Room hosting an embroidery workshop: interventions that may help or encourage all of us to slow down and reflect, to engage, to create, to spark dialogue, while reminding us to Festina lente: make haste slowly, emphasizing that activities should be performed with a proper balance of urgency and diligence.
Taking the time to breathe, and as such, slow down and focus on the Future of Public Values in the Algorithmic Society. Our values. Taking time to focus on relevant questions today, to avoid later asking ourselves "How did this happen so fast and could we have done something to prevent it?".
May we make haste, slowly, together.
SNaIL by AlgoSoc x AICON
Impression of the Algosoc International Conference 2025
Watch the AICON short video trilogy Connection, Imagination, Movement
Impact in Sight part 1 - AICON is connection
Student Aki Negate and researcher Moniek Buijzen, along with artists and residents, talk about how they use art to narrow the gap between ordinary citizens and AI.
Impact in Sight part 2 - AICON is imagination
It's very tough to imagine how to incorporate AI into society or into your daily life. This episode is all about Imagination and AI.
Impact in Sight part 3 - AICON is movement
AI is a quite an abstract concept. Did you know that AI is being used to find the perfect balance in a coral? This episode is all about movement and AI.
News
Events
More about AICON
- Gallery – visit the virtual exhibition of the AICON project Stadsgezichten (Portraits of the City) in the Metaverse on Muse
- Open Sea – view and purchase the NFTs made with the AICON Stadsgezichten project.
- Ronnies op Zuid Podcast - listen to AICON artist Peim van der Sloot and Rotterdam citizen and Albeda student Harun Senih Sevinc who talk about Artificial Intelligence (in Dutch)
- Ronnies op Zuid Podcast – listen to Farshida Zafar (ErasmusX) and Sarina van la Parra (Chance to Influence) who talk about AICON (in Dutch)
- AiPact Medium Blog – read this post by Moniek Buijzen on why we need art to cocreate the Societal Impact of AI
- AiPact Medium Blog – read this post by Moniek Buijzen on how AICON showcases a ‘radicareful’ alternative system
- AiPact Medium Blog – read this interview with Olivier Dikken from #teamAICON about AICON and the potential and ethical challenges of AI
AICON home – read more about AICON, the Hefhouse, and radical education innovation at the ErasmusX homepage
Contact us
- Email address
- aicon@eur.nl