Last Thursday we opened Broncode with the KB, the National Library of the Netherlands, and after three months of building it's finally out in the world. Long before neural nets, libraries were the machines we built to organize human knowledge. Broncode puts books from the KB collection, from fully human-made to fully AI-generated, next to artworks and experiments that ask what AI is made of, what it's making, and what that means for how we store, search and share knowledge.

Some things you'll find inside:
🧵 Hyperthread by Richard Vijgen: life-size woven tapestries of real, open-source microchips
🧱 AI Mural by Clarote: a triptych on corporate power, the minerals and labor behind AI, and the invisible, unpaid labor of us users
🖼️ An Archival Images of AI wall with works by Luke Conroy & Anne Fehres, Jazmin Morris, Zeina Saleem, Hanna Barakat, Nadia and our workshop participants
✂️ The LLM Tailor, a Counter-Defaults corner where you fit your chatbot's behavior to your own values
🗣️ Slopsaurus, a living dictionary of brand-new words like slop, glazing, model collapse and meat proxy. Take the quiz, or add your own
🎬 A film corner with shorts by Geoffrey Lillemon, Tabitha Swanson, Alan Warburton, Jacob Adler, Cyan Bae and Catherine Griffiths, plus the AIrcade for poking and prodding your way to better AI literacy
📚 The Community Zine Library, with its own set of zines to browse right in the exhibition (more below)

Shout out to:
📚 The KB team, Rianne Koning, Steven Claeyssens, Madeleine van den Berg, Imke Neels, Matthijs van der Meulen, Tugba Bahceci, Krijna Kuijt and Kris Petrasova, for opening up the library to us
🎤 Dymphie Braun for hosting the night
📰 Agustín Martínez Caram for showing people how to build a next-word model out of old Dutch newspapers
✂️ Compiler (Tanya Boyarkina and Oscar Cass-Darweish) for turning hand-made collages into dreamlike images
🎞️ Our VJs: Ana Roman, turning picture books, old ads and newspapers from the KB collection into visuals, and NDA/ (Niki Scheijen and Den Ree) with Machine Music, live-coded techno and visuals deconstructing how chips are made
🪩 All the friends who showed up and danced in a library for the first time 🤍

📍 KB, The Hague · 🗓️ Until Sat 30 January · 💰 Free

The Community Zine Library went to MozFest in Barcelona for the first time, with self-published work from SUPERRR, Identity 2.0, Computational Mama, DAIR, Swarna Manjari, Bruce Eesly, Ramla Anshur, Michelle Gan, and many many more.

We’re publishing a digital catalogue of the library this winter so if you’ve made / know of a zine that we should include, hit reply! We’re also welcoming posters, flyers, artefacts from the resistance 💕 It’s important we document (and archive!) our collective work so that:

• we can continue to feed our imaginations today with the work from each others’ beautiful brains;
• future stories about this time can reflect our divergent and plural takes on AI (not only the flat AI hype/hate narratives found in the mainstream).

Also also, we hosted a zine-making table all three days of MozFest for those who wanted to get out of their heads, and process the muchness of the talks, booths, workshops, artwork using their hands. In the next few weeks we’ll publish all collages to our community gallery, then later (in January?) we’ll co-publish a post-festival zine with the Mozilla team that shares our collective takeaways.

It’s the first time we’ve hosted a collaging session continuously over many days which allowed new and interesting behaviours to emerge. Folks used the space as a reflection space – making, then attending a session or two, coming back to their creations, heading off again. Others listened to the Main Stage talks (live next door!) from their phones so they could listen and collage at the same time – keeping their hands busy so they could be properly focused on the talk. Could talk for ages about the value and insights from using analog methods to better understand complex and abstract systems like AI or Big Data (and met a ton of folks doing or interested in the same). Should we host a community show & tell to keep this methods conversation going?

PS: If you weren’t at MozFest, you can find a second set of zines in the zine corner at the Broncode exhibition at the KB National Library of the Netherlands.

On 8 and 9 October, AI filmmaker Herinarivo Rakotomanana closed the fourth round of AI Greenhouse at the Netherlands Film Academy with a lecture and a full-day workshop. The lecture recording lands on our YouTube later this month.

On day two, 15 participants each picked a memory they have no photo of and turned it into a short film, looking for ways to show the texture of a lived experience.

Part of AI Greenhouse, our two-year collaboration with the Netherlands Film Academy, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

Marc Vermeeren (our chair) is a creative director and designer in Amsterdam who leads the brand team at n8n, with nearly 20 years of work alongside teams like A24, Dekmantel, WeTransfer, Coinbase and SPACE10.

Marijn Bril is a Rotterdam-based independent curator and researcher working across digital culture, networked images and media art, through curated programs, essays and exhibition interventions.

Shanu Walpita is a London-based educator, curator and foresight director, currently co-curating the 2026 State of Fashion Biennale and formerly Course Leader at London College of Fashion.

Welcome, all three. We’re really happy to have you.

A supervisory board was one of five commitments we made for 2026 in our annual report, and this is the first one we’ve ever had. And the full 2025 report is now out in the open: what we made, what we learned the hard way, and the hours of unpaid work we're still trying to fix. Read it, then hit reply and tell us what you think.

Where to find us over the next few weeks:

Chiang Mai, the next 2 weeks. Nadia is in town for a workshop and would love to meet people working with AI, design and culture there. Around? Hit reply.

Online, Fri 20 Nov, 17:00-18:00 CET. Ploi joins the “Resisting AI < > Futuring AI” panel at After Prompt, the University of Cologne’s conference on arts education and the politics of AI.

Eindhoven, Fri 20 Nov. Ana runs a collage workshop at STRP Endgame, the closing night of STRP after twenty years of art, technology and digital culture, at MU. Free, but capacity is limited, so RSVP.

Breda, Fri 27 Nov. Nadia runs two hands-on sessions at TURF Talk: AI en het makersperspectief in the Grote Kerk: makers work out which values and skills they want to protect when working with AI tools, then write them into their own Counter-Defaults. Keynotes by Alan Warburton and Danielle Arets.

Eindhoven, Fri 27 Nov. Ploi presents r00ts at MU Hybrid Art House, at Stimuleringsfonds’ public day for its Grounding the Cloud projects, and hosts a table where you can try it on the spot. Yes, two AIxD dates on the same Friday, both in Brabant. Pick your city.

A few ways you could pitch in right now:

Introduce us to a funder. The latest round of grant applications hasn't been easy, and we'd love to meet funders who can help us keep doing this work. Know a foundation, grant-maker or sponsor who'd get what we do? An intro from someone they trust beats a cold application every time.

Be our Meet the Community interviewer. Curious about the people in our community? Each month, pick someone whose work or story you'd love to know more about, have a chat (call or text, whichever you like), and turn it into a Meet the Community feature. We'll help with the questions and polish the text, so you get the fun part. About 2-3 hours a month, volunteer.

Be our social media intern. Love writing, designing, meme-making and researching in the open? Come help us make critical AI conversations easier to join, with plenty of room to try things out. Applications are rolling: read more about the internship, then apply anytime via the intern form →

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