Bass Coast Workshop: Dear AI: We Need to Talk About Your Soul
“Dear AI” is a creative session for artists, activists, and future-hackers who want to work with machine intelligence without selling out to it. We’ll explore how to shape tech with human values, remix cultural memory into code, and use AI as a tool for amplification, not automation. Come prompt, play, question, and co-create.
PRESENTATION: Dear AI, Before We Go Any Further, We Need To Talk About Your Soul
https://kriskrug.beehiiv.com/p/dear-ai
This session is part field report, part creative ritual. We’ll crack open the machine and ask harder questions — not just about what AI can do, but about what we’re encoding into it. Through sideways prompts, live experiments, and cultural remixes, we’ll explore how weirdos, artists, and edge-walkers are using AI to stretch perception, reclaim authorship, and seed alternate futures. Less instruction manual, more campfire conspiracy. We’ll look at how to work with these tools without getting worked by them — and why your dreams, doubts, and data trails matter more than ever. Bring your guts, your curiosity, and something to disrupt.
LONG: Kris Krüg is a digital strategist, AI provocateur, and longtime cultural catalyst. A fixture in Vancouver’s art and tech underground, he’s spent decades working at the intersection of photography, code, and community. You’ve seen him on CBC breaking down the rise of surveillance capitalism, or in underground forums remixing prompt packs like techno-poetry. His work interrogates the systems shaping us — and activates the creative tools that let us push back. Whether through pixels or protocols, Kris invites people to jailbreak the machine and amplify what makes us ungovernably human.
SHORT: Kris Krüg is a digital renegade working at the intersection of art, code, and community. From CBC panels to underground AI labs, he helps people navigate emerging tech with creative resistance and radical curiosity. His work empowers humans to stay wild in a world full of machines.
Bass Coast Festival 2025 is set for July 11–14 in Merritt, British Columbia, on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Nlaka’pamux and Syilx people.
This 17th edition of the boutique electronic music and art festival promises a thoughtfully curated experience.
Early admission is available starting July 9 and 10.
Tickets are currently on sale.
The initial lineup includes artists such as G Jones, The Glitch Mob, Mr. Carmack, Justin Martin, and The Funk Hunters.