Deepfake Pornography as Far-Right Gender Phantasms was a workshop that examined deepfake pornography as far-right ‘fashy’ media culture.

Non-consensual deepfake content as hate-media has become a widespread practice. This workshop tried to find out to which extent such deepfakes are an aspect of far-right ‘fashy’ media culture. Subsequently it asked participants to reimagine and reinvent common AI and deepfake content with a focus on gender inclusivity and queer creativity. Would it be possible to develop inclusive and artistic deepfake content that is made with ethical standards, which means that the actors/actresses and deepfake figures or personalities had to give written consent for their facial, aural, or bodily features to be used? The workshop invited people to create deepfakes, and to consider technological experiments and debates regarding sexual experimentation and otherness.

Katrien Jacobs (BE) is has lectured and published widely about sexuality and gender in and around digital media, contemporary arts and online activism. Alongside her academic, curatorial and ethnographic fieldwork she has also produced several documentaries and performance art pieces.

I.M. (DE) is a digital rights activist and techno-feminist with a background in network science, AI, and data feminism.

Part of Re-Imagine Europe: New Perspectives for Action. Co-funded by the European Union.