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
ABOUTWORK
CREATING ALONGSIDE AI SKILLSHARE x MOZILLA
In partnership with Mozilla and Skillshare, I designed an introductory course on AI for non-technical artists. This class focuses on how artists can use AI in an ethical way, while helping them decide whether/how to incorporate it in their practice. The goals of the class are to: (1) examine the differences between human art creation and AI image creation; (2) reflect on how and why artists might use AI in their practice; (3) choose the right tools to generate assets; (4) train individualized AI models for personalized and less biased resultss. Students are encouraged to create a zine articulating their experience with AI, their thoughts and feelings on it, and how they might incorporate it in their practice. The class was designed for all experience levels with AI, with a focus on using no-code tools in order to provide a soft introduction to the landscape of AI tools for artists.
If you’d like to take the course, you can sign up here.
As a companion for the class, I create my own zine articulating my relationship to AI, the goals I have for it, and the complications I navigate while using it.