Creative Futures x Khoj: Counterstructures Residency Application

Apply for the Counterstructures Residency, organized and hosted byKhoj International Artists' Association (Khoj) in partnership with Mozilla Foundation. This program will run weekly in Delhi from October 1, 2026 to November 12, 2026, with a final presentation of finished projects on November 13-15, 2026.

The Counterstructures Residency provides creative technologists with resources for prototyping and developing a project over the course of 6 weeks. As AI systems increasingly shape how knowledge is created, remembered, and shared, communities need new ways to challenge increasingly predictive and deterministic systems to center human agency and thought.

The Delhi edition of the Counterstructures Residency invites artists to respond to and develop prototypes that engage with either one or both of the following  thematic inquiries: Retaining Cultural Authority, exploring how communities can retain agency over what is digitized, interpreted, reused, or kept private; or Remembering and Thinking With Machines, investigating where human judgment enters systems increasingly shaped by AI and what forms of knowledge are transformed or lost in the process. The Counterstructures Residency provides creative technologists with resources for prototyping and developing a project over the course of 6 weeks. Projects could take many forms, but should investigate or act as a counter to the questions illustrated in the thematic tracks.  

Counterstructures operationalizes learnings from participatory assemblies in that same region into thematic tracks for creative technologists. Our assemblies with G5A in Delhi and Mumbai surfaced the following pain points to investigate:

Retaining Cultural Authority

Guiding Questions

  • What happens when oral, embodied, or community-held knowledge is converted into datasets or other machine-readable forms?
  • Which cultural materials become visible to AI systems, and which don't?
  • How might communities retain authority over what is digitized, interpreted, reused, or deliberately kept private?

Remembering and Thinking With Machines

Guiding Questions

  • Where does thought reside when people think with machines, and at what stages does human judgment enter the system? 
  • What forms of cultural or professional knowledge are lost when judgment is standardized through automated systems?
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