Artificial intelligence doesn't have a neutral point of view. Kenza Zouari's curatorial practice begins from that fact - and explores what it means for art that is made with, about, and through AI systems. As the co-founder of MONO, a Tunis-based micro-gallery championing digital art, she has built a practice that centres the voices and stories that AI most consistently gets wrong.

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About Kenza Zouari

Kenza Zouari is a curator, art collector, and co-founder of MONO, a Tunis-based micro-gallery dedicated to digital art and the voices it tends to exclude. Her work focuses on the transformative power of AI alongside its limitations and biases - particularly as they affect communities and stories that fall outside the datasets and perspectives that dominate mainstream AI development. Her curatorial project for Janou Tunis, featuring Rima Hassan's photographs of Palestinian refugee life, brought those questions into immediate, human focus.

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What This Conversation Is Really About

"Fragments of Home" - Zouari's curatorial project exploring Palestinian displacement through the lens of AI - is not just an exhibition. It's an argument that AI's relationship to narrative is political: that the stories it tells most fluently, and the ones it distorts or erases, reflect the priorities of the people who built it. This conversation explores how Zouari uses curatorial practice to expose and complicate those biases, what it means to work with AI when you're committed to centring underrepresented voices, and what MONO has made possible in the Tunis art scene.

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Key Ideas From This Episode

AI bias as curatorial subject
Zouari doesn't just critique AI bias - she curates it. Her exhibitions use AI's limitations as a subject in themselves, revealing through artistic practice what technical documentation rarely surfaces: the human decisions embedded in apparently neutral systems.

Rima Hassan and documentary photography in AI context
Pairing Rima Hassan's photographs of Palestinian refugees with AI-generated narratives creates a direct confrontation: between the specificity of documented experience and the generalised patterns that AI produces. The contrast is the meaning.

MONO and the Tunis digital art scene
Building a micro-gallery dedicated to digital art in Tunis is an act of cultural infrastructure - a statement that digital art's geography needs to expand beyond its existing centres. MONO has created space for artists and conversations that wouldn't otherwise exist.

Underrepresented voices and digital tools
Zouari's practice is grounded in the conviction that AI tools are not equally useful to all artists - and that the gaps they create require active curatorial work to address. This is a more practical and more rigorous position than either dismissing AI or embracing it uncritically.

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Why This Episode Matters to Collectors

The most consequential questions in digital art right now are about who AI serves and who it doesn't. Kenza Zouari's practice gives collectors a framework for thinking about those questions that is rooted in specific artistic and curatorial experience rather than abstract argument. If you're collecting AI-related work, this conversation will sharpen how you evaluate what you're looking at.

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About Unlocked

Unlocked is the podcast by 100 collectors - the global network for digital art collectors. Each episode, we speak with artists, curators, collectors, and builders shaping the digital art world. No market speculation. No hype. Just honest, substantive conversations about art, practice, and what it means to collect today. New episodes release throughout the year. Find Unlocked on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. 100 collectors is a membership network. [Explore membership →]

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