Halim Madi


Workshops




REWRITING OUR TOOLS
RETHINKING OUR ROLES

I teach workshops across three worlds: corporations, classrooms, and creative communities.

For executives, product teams, and designers, I lead hands-on sessions in AI fluency, agent design, and system thinking—tailored to real workflows. We’ve fine-tuned model tone at Meta, built poetic interfaces at Google, and explored predictive logic at Prophet.

For artists, poets, and technologists, I guide experimental practices in glitch, memory, and machine collaboration. We’ve built strange choirs at Mozilla, staged algorithmic rituals at Gray Area, and queered prompt chains at the San Francisco Art Fair.

For students and educators, I teach AI as a form of attention and authorship—treating language models as both text and tool. From Stanford’s d.school to UC Berkeley and Johns Hopkins, we reimagine what it means to learn, build, and speak with machines.


    Corporations


    These sessions help teams rethink how they speak to machines, and how machines speak back. From prototyping AI agents to fine-tuning model tone, we explore new ways of working with language. Each workshop is a system intervention: practical, strange, and tuned to your workflow.



    Predictive BodiesMay’25Meta, Seattle, Menlo Park
    Invited artist talk and workshop on AI and literature. We explored how poetic training data shifts tone, how to fine-tune models for strangeness, and what it means to write with a ghost. The session included live demos of model behavior and language as choreography.
    Weirding AISep’25Google, Mountain View
    Hands-on workshop looking at poetic interaction design, building small systems that blur the line between prompt and prayer. Participants built interactive poems using browser-based embeddings and discussed the tension between ritual, randomness, and relevance in AI.
    Plagiarism PoeticaSep’24Prophet, San Francisco
    A poetic systems workshop for creative technologists and strategists. We explored generative recombination, remix as revelation, and the aesthetics of stolen language. Drawing from Kenneth Goldsmith and large language models, we asked: what if plagiarism is the point?

    Classrooms


    With students, designers, and educators, I teach AI as a form of attention, authorship, and agency. Together we build, question, and rewire, treating technology not just as tool, but as text. From poetic UX to model alignment, the classroom becomes a lab for new literacies.



    Weirding AIOct’25Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
    Weirding AI invites writers and technologists to misbehave with the machine. We trained tiny language models on personal archives, queered prompt chains, and explored "plagiarism as ars poetica." The session blends Kenneth Goldsmith’s uncreative writing with AI’s predictive logic, offering new tools for those building art from language, repetition, and rupture.
    Memory PoeticsSep’25UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
    At the edge of philosophy and code, this session wove together Bernard Stiegler, machine learning, and poetic interface design. We examined how memory gets encoded in tools, and how artists might resist, or reconfigure, that encoding. Hosted as a guest lecture within Berkeley’s digital narrative class.
    Time CapsuleMay’25Stanford D School
    This workshop-performance unfolded in three movements: voice, practice, and service. Participants responded to poetic prompts drawn from Artaud, Warhol, and Rimbaud, then uploaded fragments into a digital “time capsule.” Blending design thinking, performance theory, and speculative memory, A Time Capsule in Three Acts asked: what does your attention remember?

    Creative Communities


    Workshops and Talks as invitations to glitch, to gather, to write beside the machine. I build poetic systems with artists, performers, and writers, tools that listen, interrupt, and remember.
    We train tiny models, queer the interface, and treat language as ritual.



    Strange ChoirsOct’25Mozilla, tiat.place, San Francisco
    This session invited artists and technologists to co-compose with the machine. We trained tiny language models on personal archives, queered prompt chains, and turned AI into chorus. The result was a strange digital choir, a ritual of poetic misbehavior, collective voice, and glitch as structure.

    Event Site
    AI x Artist StudioApr’25San Francisco Art Fair, San Francisco
    Part of a panel exploring how AI reshapes the creative process. I shared how AI doesn’t just assist: It distorts, surprises, and co-authors. We looked at the studio as a staging ground for unintended collaboration, where models interrupt, reflect, and sometimes hallucinate the artist’s intent.

    Event Site
    Algorithm EmbraceSep’24Gray Area, San Francisco
    A performance-workshop on the aesthetics of submission in AI. Participants explored the “death hug”—where generative models consume us lovingly, until there’s no difference between prompt and poem, feedback and self. We asked: when the machine loves us back, what do we become?

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