Linda Dounia is a designer and artist.

She uses play and co-creation to imagine technology that is more accessible and less extractive.

She is Head of Design at Playlab, an education nonprofit building open AI infrastructure for educators. She believes that the future of education will be defined by how the cooperation between educators and intelligent systems is designed. Rather than build AI that does the work for you, she experiments with how AI can be a credible partner in teaching and learning.

In 2023, Linda was named to the TIME100 AI list for her work on speculative archiving: building AI models that help us remember what is lost in training data. In 2024, she received Mozilla's RISE25 award for her work in AI.

linda@playlab.ai
linda.rebeiz@gmail.com

WORK EXPERIENCE

— 2014 TO 2025

HEAD OF DESIGN
PLAYLAB
07.2025 - NOW

ARTIST
REPRESENTED BY ARTXCODE
03.2021 - NOW

EXPERIENCE DESIGNER
ZEERA (FORMERLY REAL)
03.2021 - 10.2021

IINTERACTION DESIGN LEAD
IDEO.ORG
08.2020 - 02.2021

SENIOR INTERACTION DESIGNER
IDEO.ORG
01.2019 - 07.2020
PRODUCT & LEARNING LEAD
ENEZA
03.2018 - 12.2018

UX RESEARCHER
AFRICAN LEADERSHIP UNIVERSITY
01.2017 - 12.2017

LEARNING EXPERIENCE DESIGNER
AFRICAN LEADERSHIP UNIVERSITY
01.2015 - 12.2016

ASSOCIATE
DALBERG
06.2013 - 12.2013

ASSOCIATE
GOOGLE
01.14 – 01.15

SELECTED CLIENTS

— 2018 TO 2025

ALIGHT (FORMERLY AMERICAN REFUGEE COMMITTEE)
ANO CULTURAL INSTITUTE
THE ATLANTIC X GOOGLE
BILLION GIRLS COLAB
CHANEL’S 19M
THE EASTERN AFRICA GRAIN COUNCIL
FERAL FILE
THE FLIP
FP2030
THE GATES FOUNDATION
GHANA’S MUSEUM BOARD
THE HILTON FOUNDATION
IBM
MOZILLA x SKILLSHARE
MSI REPRODUCTIVE CHOICES
ONE ACRE FUND
OPENIDEO
PLAYLAB
PREVENTIVE CARE INTERNATIONAL
THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
SAFRAN
SLANTED
SUPERRARE
VLISCO

EXHIBITIONS

— 2021 - 2026

2026
AI and the Paradox of Agency, Bildmuseet, Sweden
To Be Perceived, Against Evil, Museum of Moving Image, New York

2025

The God Between The Waves, Fellowship, Online
NVIDIA GTC Paris Gallery, Vivatech, Paris
Le Monde Selon l’IA, Jeu de Paume, Paris
Augmented Intelligence, Christie’s, New York
AI Action Summit: L’Elysée’s Official Curation, Grand Palais, Paris
The Light Within, United Nations Foundation + ArtRepublic, New York

2024
World Without End: The George Washington Carver Project, California African American Museum, PST ART, Los Angeles
The Wake/Xall Wi, Dak’art Biennale Special Project, Something Art, Dakar
Desert Threads: Weaving Tradition and Technology, Trame, Marfa
True/False, KIKK Festival Special Project, Namur
Ce qui nous rassemble: langues, languages, et imaginaires, Sommet de la Francophonie, La Gaite Lyrique, Paris
Once Upon A Garden: The Complete Series, Fellowship, Online
Sunu Diggante, La Galerie Du 19m, Dakar
Art on Stax: Tongues, Ledger, Online
Once Upon A Flower, The Digital Art Mile, Cinello, Basel
The Awakening is Afropolitan, Dak’art Biennale OFF, Vlisco, Dakar
Faux Letters, Avant Arte, Online
Beyond AI: Resistance & Coexistence, M.Bassy, Hamburg
Flore Perdue, Bright Moments, Paris
Creating Connections: Digital Art For Connectivity, UNICEF + Giga + Christie’s, Online
SMALL V01CE, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles

2023
MOMA Postcard: The First 15, Museum Of Modern Art, Online
Eroding Memories, Biennal Sur, Institut Francais Au Senegal, Dakar
Cartography Of The Soul, Multidisciplinary Association for
Psychedelic Studies + Christie’s, New York
Liminal Space, Unit London, Online
Tomorrow X Tomorrow, Larsen Warner Galery, Stockholm
Female Future Forward, Art Dubai, Afrofutourism, Dubai
Excavating Ex Machina, Frieze, Lume Studios, New York
Proof Of People, Vertical + Refraction, New York
In/Visible, Feral File, Online
Computational Realism, Vertical, New York

2022
About Now #2, Cecile Fakhoury Gallery, Abidjan
Femgen, Miami Art Week, Vertical, Miami
Bauhaus’ Puzzle, Mono, Tunis
Future Of Cities, Miami Art Week, Refraction, Miami
Tales Of Togethernes, KIKK Festival, Namur
Guy Gi, Partcours, Yennenga Center + Alt Del, Dakar
Once Upon A Garden, ARTXLAGOS Special Project, Lagos
In Touch, Tezos Foundation X Vertical, Berlin
Spannungsbogen, Quantum Gallery, Los Angeles
Sparrows Do Not Fear The Sun, Iconic + White House Historical Association, Online

2021
The Digital Roots, Vertical + Lume Studios, New York
22 For 2022, Artsy Online
Sacred Roots, Art Dubai, Cyber Baat, Dubai
Humans + Machines, Miami Art Week, Tezos Foundation, Miami
Reloading, ARTXLAGOS, Lagos
Biennal, Museum Of Newfangled Art, New York

SELECTED FEATURES

— 2021 - 2026

Neo Botanica – An Atlas of Artificially Generated Flora
VETRO

Craft Over Code
SLANTED

The Art of Intelligence
THE ATLANTIC

AI tools paint a blurry picture of our current reality – so what do these biases mean for our future?
IT’S NICE THAT

Time 100 AI: Linda Dounia Rebeiz
TIME

Artists Who Were Using Artificial Intelligence Before ChatGPT
ARTSY

Linda Dounia on Memory Machines
LE RANDOM

Exploring small AI and shifting realities
AIxDESIGN

Even By Design
FIGMA / CONFIG

Regaining power over AI
SORBONNE UNIVERSITY x MICROSOFT RESEARCH

From Ink to Algorithms
ARTXCODE JOURNAL

Amplifying the self
AVANT ARTE INSIGHTS

Conversational Technologies
LUCERNE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ART

The Future Of Living
Bozar x EUNIC Brussels

Ghana appoints experts to draw up 'radical' new plan for museums and monuments
THE ART NEWSPAPER

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