Restless Grounds
What if AI moved at the pace of care, kinship, and curiosity?
Restless Grounds explores this question through the lens of decolonial, feminist, and relational approaches to algorithmic technologies. Born out of the Slow AI research project, it brings together insights from a year of collaborative inquiry — through the likes of sound and somatics, divination, myth-making, and archival temporalities. The publication explores slowness as a speculative, critical, and embodied mode of engaging with algorithmic technologies.
The navigation consists of small squares at the bottom of the page. Their amount refers to page numbers and readers are animated to count the squares – in the table of content as well as on the page itself – to guide themselves through the pages of the newspaper. This gesture intentionally turns the use of navigation into something inefficient and centers slowness as a guiding principle of the publication.
It was edited and conceptualized by Mariana Fernández Mora and printed by DPG Media. The design and art direction was created by Studio SMS, and set in Bianzhidai by Xiaoyuan Gao (notyourtypefoundry), Eliza by Pawel Wolowitsch (Camelot) and FreeMono by Primož Peterlin and Steve White.
