June 11th 2026 | Field Visit

Co-curators: Hanan de Sain, Inclusive AI Lab, Cultural AI Researcher and PhD UU; Dr. Yichen Rao, Assistant Professor UU, China AI lead Inclusive AI Lab and Ulrike Quade, artistic director at Ulrike Quade Company  

Hosts: Museum Tot Zover, Kruislaan 124, 1097 GA Amsterdam + 3D Universum, Science Park 400, 1098 XH, Amsterdam

The field visit begins at Museum Tot Zover, a unique cultural space dedicated to one of humanity’s most profound questions: How do we deal with death? This setting frames AI not as a purely technical system, but as something entangled with vulnerability, memory, and the human condition. Participants will engage with the curators over lunch for an interactive slow processing session led by artists, programmers, entrepreneurs, and critical thinkers who are actively reimagining AI beyond speed- and efficiency-driven paradigms. The visit culminates with an engagement with an award winning AI company pioneering deep therapy – 3D Universum, where co-founder Sezer Karaoglu will share how their AI-enabled online communication platform allows practitioners to enter into conversation with otherwise inaccessible people through self-controlled video animations via Zoom. Participants will engage directly with the company’s approach, critically exploring what it means to design AI systems for care, presence, and therapeutic connection. Together, this journey invites critical AI researchers, designers, creative technologists, and artists to pause, interrogate dominant narratives, and collectively imagine more humane, plural, and livable AI futures—through dialogue, experimentation, and shared acts of world-building.