Linda Dounia
Dakar, Senegal
Linda Dounia is an artist, designer, and writer interested in the philosophical and environmental implications of technocapitalism. She is Senegalese-Lebanese.
Her artistic practice mediates her memories as alternative realities and evidence of excluded ways of being and doing. It is formed through the dialogue and tensions between lived experience, code, and AI. She is an advocate for greater agency over algorithms – how we percieve them and are perceived by them.
As a designer, she is interested in how technology can adequately represent and empower people, no matter who they are. She has managed design teams that leverage the power of play, co-creation, and prototyping with communities to better understand systemic inequality, and to make technology more accessible and useful to them.
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.
