Ariana Dongus is a researcher in the field of critical artificial intelligence. In 2021, she was honored as an "AI Newcomer" by the German Federal Ministry of Education and the German Informatics Society. Until this summer, she coordinated the KIM research group at HfG, founded by Prof. Pasquinelli. By exploring the intersection of biometrics, colonial pasts, new forms of labor, and machine "intelligence," she contributes to a critique of today's digital economies. She has given workshops and lectures at home and abroad, e.g. at Ars Electronica, transmediale, PACT Zollverein, Bern University of the Arts, Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art Museum, the Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, the European Media Art Festival, Haus der Kunst Munich or the Goethe Institute Montreal.