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Call of the Void | Online Program, 4 Sessions starting Jan 17

$175.00

At a moment when Artificial Intelligence saturates every part of life: work, creativity, story, and identity, Call of the Void offers a deep cultural reframing to reorient how we relate to it.

Call of the Void is for thinkers, artists, cultural workers, and professionals who want to explore technology not as a tool to continue driving endless exploitation, but as a cultural force we inhabit and interrogate.

Over the 4 sessions, we invite participants to:

  • Surface assumptions about technology, nature, and culture

  • Explore how culture and technology shape each other

  • Develop personal frameworks for ecological storytelling

  • Cultivate sincerity, relationality, and generosity over efficiency and extraction

Participants in Call of the Void will walk away with:

  • A clearer sense of their personal and cultural relationship with Artificial Intelligence

  • Tools to articulate critical perspectives on technology’s ecological and social impact

  • A framework for meaningful, non-instrumental engagement with complex systems

  • A community of peers exploring similar questions

Join this program to explore how to reclaim agency within the rapidly changing landscape and go beyond simply coping with technology.

At a moment when Artificial Intelligence saturates every part of life: work, creativity, story, and identity, Call of the Void offers a deep cultural reframing to reorient how we relate to it.

Call of the Void is for thinkers, artists, cultural workers, and professionals who want to explore technology not as a tool to continue driving endless exploitation, but as a cultural force we inhabit and interrogate.

Over the 4 sessions, we invite participants to:

  • Surface assumptions about technology, nature, and culture

  • Explore how culture and technology shape each other

  • Develop personal frameworks for ecological storytelling

  • Cultivate sincerity, relationality, and generosity over efficiency and extraction

Participants in Call of the Void will walk away with:

  • A clearer sense of their personal and cultural relationship with Artificial Intelligence

  • Tools to articulate critical perspectives on technology’s ecological and social impact

  • A framework for meaningful, non-instrumental engagement with complex systems

  • A community of peers exploring similar questions

Join this program to explore how to reclaim agency within the rapidly changing landscape and go beyond simply coping with technology.

Why This Matters Now

We live in an AI-saturated world where the logic of productivity and extraction dominates meaning and value. Call of the Void reframes that logic, offering a space where participants can interrogate assumptions and discover new cultural orientations toward technology. This program, offered by UKAI Projects, will support you to find your own perspectives while staying rooted in ecology, reciprocity, and imagination.

Program Logistics

  • Format: 4 sessions (online, via Zoom)

  • Dates: Jan 17, 24, 31 & Feb 7

  • Time: 13:30–15:00 (Eastern Time / Toronto)

  • Group Size: Limited to 8 participants

  • Facilitator: Luisa Ji — cultural strategist with experience in AI, cultural infrastructure, and artistic R&D across Canada and internationally

The cohort environment supports intimate dialogue, structured reflection, and creative ideation rather than broadcast lectures.

Who It’s For

This program is ideal for:

  • Artists and cultural practitioners navigating tech-inflected change

  • Researchers, writers, and designers exploring AI’s cultural implications

  • Any curious professional ready to question dominant narratives about intelligence, efficiency, and progress

  • People seeking frameworks that connect ecology, technology, and cultural meaning

The program format is designed to support rethinking our place in a world shaped by intelligence systems.

This program is currently not subsidized through public funders and corporate sponsors. Pricing reflects fair compensation for our team’s labour, time, and R&D efforts. However, to support access, a limited number of worktrade options are available. Please contact us via [home @ ukaiprojects.com].

Program Facilitator: Luisa Ji

From projects like Intelligent Terrain, Cultural Technologies Lab, and Goblin Market, Luisa Ji has turned abstract questions into embodied experiences that guide artists, cultural practitioners, and the public in their exploration of AI, technology’s ecological impact, cooperations under scarcity, and more. These projects are curious inquiries into how people engage with lived environments rather than making arbitrary distinctions between culture and nature.

Luisa Ji is a creative strategist and cultural technologist working at the intersection of public imagination, digital transformation, and systems of care. With over a decade of global experience, she leads participatory programs that use storytelling, worldbuilding, and culturally-specific technological adaptations to help institutions navigate cultural and ecological volatility.

As Studio Director at UKAI Projects, Luisa has delivered initiatives across Canada, South Korea, Iceland, Taiwan, and the UK, supporting artists and arts organizations in transforming their practices. Her background spans civic experience design, AI literacy, and cultural infrastructure, with speaking and workshop credits at SÍM Residency (Reykjavik, Iceland), Watershed (Bristol, UK), msdm (London, UK), MUTEK Montreal (CA), Société des arts technologiques (CA), and Milieux Institute (CA). She is a program co-lead of the Cultural Technologies Lab, a community of arts and cultural workers that leverages culture as vital technology for regeneration and societal transformation.