Argue With 4 Angry Women
- When: Tuesday 26th November
Inspired by ‘Argue with Women’ workshop experiment by Anouchka Grose, artists and researchers Jayoon Choi and Henrietta Simson, proposes Argue with 4 Angry Women, a bold public event that brought together creatives, students, and academics to confront the ethical challenges of Generative AI in visual culture. Held as part of the Illustration Festival at Camberwell Space, the event featured four women—including two guest speakers—in a dynamic, feminist-led panel discussion.
Through open dialogue and audience participation, the panel unpacked urgent questions at the intersection of technology, representation, and power:
- How does AI reinforce or challenge the portrayal of women in visual media?
- How do male-dominated tech spaces shape the aesthetics and ethics of AI-generated imagery?
- What biases are we unconsciously reproducing, and how can we disrupt them?
By collapsing traditional hierarchies between speakers and audience, the event created space for critical reflection on the systems behind the images we consume—and those we create.
Argue with 4 Angry Women called on artists, designers, and educators to engage deeply with the ethical dimensions of AI. As this technology increasingly shapes our visual world, the conversation raised an essential challenge: What kind of digital future do we want to make?
Argue with 4 Angry Women discussion recording
Speakers
Anouchka Grose / Psychoanalysis (https://www.anouchkagrose.com)
Anouchka Grose is a London-based psychoanalyst, writer and climate campaigner. Her nine published books include: Ringing for You: a Love Story With Interruptions (Harper Collins, 1999), No More Silly Love Songs: a realist’s guide to romance (Portobello, 2010), A Guide to Eco-Anxiety: how to protect the planet and your mental health (Watkins, 2020), Uneasy Listening: notes on Hearing and Being Heard (Mack, 2022) and Fashion: a Manifesto (Notting Hill Editions, 2023). She also writes about art and fashion, and has contributed to The Guardian, Granta, Harpers Bazaar, The Erotic Review and Radio 4, as well as appearing in Josh Appignanesi’s documentary, My Extinction (2023).
Henrietta Simson / Artist and Researcher, UAL (https://henriettasimson.com)
Henrietta Simson explores possibilities available to the landscape image in a digital context framed by ecological crisis. Her interest lies in technology’s often invisible writing of our experience of space, a quandary that affects ways of thinking about landscape and images, and how these are defined and encountered. Visual technologies have profoundly impacted our ways of seeing, representing and understanding our environment. Simson’s work presents an idea of landscape that facilitates a critical questioning of this overtly visual structuring of space.
She studied at the Slade, completing an MA in 2007, and PhD in 2017. Her thesis explored landscape through medieval and early Renaissance visual forms, the materiality of the image, and Renaissance perspective's role in the history of technological image-making.
Jayoon Choi / Artist & Senior Lecturer in Illustration, UAL (http://jayoonchoi.com)
Jayoon Choi is an artist, and an educator based in London. Her practice explores how the process of how human beings perceive and internalise the world we live in can be visualised and communicated. She investigates these through process-led drawing and digital production.
She explores a variety of automatic processes, viewing them as a systematic interplay and embracing unpredictability. This exploration of unpredictability extends from traditional hand drawing, slit scans to AI Generation and digital collage.
Jayoon obtained an MA at the Royal College of Art. Her work has been exhibited and featured by VIDAK, Guardian, Jealous Gallery, South Kiosk, Light Up Lancaster, Women of Silicon Roundabout and Illustrating Mental Health Symposium.
Lily Ibrahim / Games Art Director (https://x.com/liliibrahimart)
Lili Ibrahim is an Art Director and Games Artist based in London. Although she’s been a gamer all her life, she didn’t think she would work in games—she studied visual art and illustration—but after she applied for an illustrator job for a games company, she never looked back. Since 2020 Lili had worked at Ustwo Games on socially impactful projects such as Alba: a Wildlife Adventure, and Monument Valley 2: The Lost Forest. She’s currently working on the next instalment in the Monument Valley series. As a manager she is passionate about team diversity and team health. Lili was part of Games London’s 2022 Ensemble cohort, a showcase of UK video games talent from Black, Asian and underrepresented ethnicities curated by Sharna Jackson, director of creative and content at Hopster.