We have been invited to give workshops about our current art practice at universities and public spaces. We are currently offering two workshops, “I had too much” and, together with Vuk Ćosić and Vladan Joler, “Reverse Contradictionary – Dictionary of new wor(l) ds”, a brainstorming guided session inventing new lemmas.
When/Where: In the frame of the Workshop serie “ROTBOTS”, we are giving the workshop the13 June 2026 at 10.00 am, at Rosa Zentrum für Netzkunst, heidelberger Str. 28, 12059 berlin neukölln/alt-treptow. The workshop is free!
Registration Link: https://distant.gallery/rotbots
What happens when the data LLMs learn from is manipulated or strategically distorted? This workshop will invite participants to explore the theory and practice of LLM data poisoning as a site of critical intervention. LLMs shape and organise meaning, and are now the main gateway to access information on the internet. But while their way of presenting knowledge appears neutral, it is based on invisible processes of selection.Through hands-on experimentation, attendees will investigate how training pipelines, fine-tuning processes, and retrieval mechanisms can be influenced, subverted, or redirected, probing the fragile boundary between machine knowledge and constructed narrative.
IOCOSE have been working for many years with AI and on how search engines and platforms organise knowledge. NextQuery (2007), one of their earliest interventions, operated as a fictitious agency selling Google’s first search page for speculative keywords that would become crucial in the future. The NoTube Contest (2006-2016) invited participants to find the less valuable videos on YouTube, reflecting on the platform’s criteria for preserving data and making it visible or invisible. More recently, AI-Ludd (2025) cast an AI agent in the role of a Luddite, turning the very logic of productivity-enhancing AI on its head by encouraging users to resist workplace machinery, prioritise leisure, and break free from capitalist constraints. The Reverse Contradictionary (2025), written with Vuk Ćosić and Vladan Joler, is a dictionary of new wor(l)ds not yet captured by LLMs. The confrontational neologisms challenge the predatory algorithmic logic of systems which absorb humanity’s entire cultural output only to recycle it as statistical mediocrity. The group has directly experimented with LLM data poisoning while working at the recent Nemo Heights (2026) project, a fictional luxury real estate to be built at Point Nemo, the furthest point from all emerged land, currently used by space companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin to trash their debris. This workshop will build on the group’s expertise and explore this new, weird, and partly unknown territory for critical sabotage.
When/Where: 29th June 2026, 14.00 pm, King's college, London The workshop is free!
Registration Link: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/kingscollegelondoncentrefordigitalculture/2230477
The Reverse Contradictionary is a book written by net.artist Vuk Ćosić, the collective IOCOSE, and by Vladan Joler.
This “Dictionary of New Wor(l)ds” presents selected confrontational neologisms that challenge and overturn the predatory, algorithmic logic embedded in statistical language. A selection is available on the project website: https://reverse-contradictionary.net/
We will introduce the audience to the Reverse Contradictionary, its approach and methodology, and show some of the best neologisms published on the book. We will then invite the participants in quick rounds of brainstorming to create new words - which might eventually feed into the book’s 2nd edition (inclusive of appropriate crediting)!
