Linda Dounia Rebeiz
Linda Dounia is an artist and designer who investigates the philosophical and environmental implications of technocapitalism. Her work mediates memories using generative technologies, namely Artificial Intelligence and Creative Coding.
Her work has been featured by MoMA, Chanel’s 19M gallery, Christie’s, Museum Folkwang, Bright Moments, Avant Arte, Time Magazine, It’s Nice That, and The New York Times. She has been shown at various galleries around the world as well as Art Basel, The Biennal Sur, The Dakar Biennale, KIKK festival, ARTXLAGOS, and Digital Art Fair Asia.
In 2023, Linda was recognized on the TIMEA100 list of most influential people in AI for her work on speculative archiving — building AI models that help us remember what is lost. In 2024, she was also the recipient of Mozilla’s RISE25 award for her work in AI.
She is an advocate for more transparency and greater agency over AI, a topic she writes and speaks about.
Once Upon A Garden: The Complete Series
Once Upon A Garden is a speculative archive of critically endangered and extinct flora that we have little to no records of, and therefore no way to remember. In this project, the artist Linda Dounia uses Artificial Intelligence as a time machine to go back in time and piece together data we didn’t bother recording using data that we did record. To be able to fill gaps in the world’s collective memory with synthetic memory is a unique opportunity that AI offers today. Between 2021 and now, Once Upon A Garden has speculated on what the flora population in West Africa (where Dounia is from and lives) might have looked like decades ago using increasingly faster and more refined models.
