Patricia Reed presents a lecture on AI and Alterity as Edge Detection. She explores AI as an instrument, model, and agent—from ancient myths like Talos and early systems like ELIZA, to cultural imaginaries and the political struggles shaping AI today. Reed examines how models shape concepts of “the human,” how alien reasoning emerges through AI, and how computational thought challenges traditional epistemologies. A powerful reflection on technology, imagination, and the shifting boundaries of humanity.

Patricia Reed
Artist, theorist, and designer based in Berlin. Since 2019 she has taught theory at the Design Academy Eindhoven, co-directing the master’s programme Critical Inquiry Lab since 2022. Her practice fuses philosophy, design, and speculative research, focusing on epistemology, technology, ecology, and geopolitics. Reed investigates how material and immaterial structures shape political imagination at a planetary scale. She co-authored the Xenofeminist Manifesto as part of the collective Laboria Cuboniks, a milestone in feminist and techno-critical theory. She currently pursues research in the project Figuring Planetary Space (International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam) and collaborates with the global research programme Antikythera.