Icarus Salon is a conceptual organization that coalesces into different teams depending on the idea. Our team also includes frequent collaborators and advisors that are named within each project’s individual site.
Şerife (Sherry) Wong
Principal Artist
Şerife is a Turkish-Hawaiian artist working on AI governance. She is currently an affiliate at O'Neil Risk Consulting and Algorithmic Auditing and an affiliate research scientist at Kidd Lab, UC Berkeley, serves on the board of directors for Gray Area and Tech Inquiry, and is the culture and AI governance lead at the Tech Diplomacy Network.
Her work advocating for justice in AI and more active roles for artists in policymaking has been recognized through several awards: a residency fellowship at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, a research fellowship at the Berggruen Institute, a residency at Medlab, University of Colorado, was selected for the 100 Women in AI Ethics list in 2021. As a leader in the art and technology space, she has served on jury award committees for Ars Electronica, Burning Man, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Şerife is a frequent collaborator with the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford to bridge conceptual art with the social sciences. Previously, she was an Artist in Residence and creator of the Impact Program at Autodesk Pier 9, and worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Artnet Magazine.
Her work uses research and activism as a medium of art to create performances, social sculptures, paintings, videos, happenings, and interactive web-based work. Şerife has had solo art exhibits in New York (I-20 Gallery), San Francisco, Vienna, and Mexico City; and exhibited internationally at Art Basel Miami, Shanghai Art Fair, FIAC Paris, ARCO Madrid, and Art Cologne among others. She has given talks at the Museum of Image and Sound and the Observatory for Innovation at the Institute of Advanced Studies in São Paulo; the Glass Room, Gray Area Festival, French American Cultural Society, Villa Albertine, and Swissnex in San Francisco; RightsCon; Mozfest House, Amsterdam, and the National Humanities Center among many others. She is currently working on a public education project, Artificial Life Coach, which will be launching this year as a recipient of a Mozilla Creative Award. She is also working with Global Voices as part of Omidyar’s Future of Data Challenge to look at data governance narratives in El Salvador, Brazil, Türkiye, Sudan, and India.
Raziye Buse Çetin
AI Policy and Advocacy Principal
Buse is an AI policy and ethics researcher and consultant. Her work revolves around ethics, impact, and governance of AI systems. She combines her lived experience with her interest in postcolonial studies, intersectional feminism and science and technology studies (STS) to develop critical thinking about AI technologies and narratives around it.
Buse worked with The Future Society (think-and-to-tank) as an AI policy researcher and she is a member of the AI Commons (nonprofit aiming to build a knowledge hub for AI-driven problem solving & to democratize access to AI). Buse is currently is working with IEEE SA on AI-driven Innovation for Cities and People, Decolonizing AI Ethics initiatives and Civic Software Foundation on a social justice context framework for public datasets. Buse has been selected as one of the 100 Women in AI Ethics in 2020 and #35under35 European Leaders by Barcelona Centre for International Affairs. Buse speaks Turkish, French, English and Arabic; and holds a master’s degree in International Public Management from Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA).
Eryk Salvaggio
Artist and Research Analyst
Eryk Salvaggio is an interdisciplinary design researcher and artist. His focus is on intersections of technology, society, culture, and the environment. He often examines gaps that emerge between datasets and the world they reflect, and makes these gaps understandable to the public through interactive and digital art, science communication projects, and writing.
Eryk has worked with partners including the Swiss Defense Force, SwissPost and the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Wikimedia Foundation, the Internet Archive, and the National Gallery of Australia. His research has been published by Yale University Press and the data science journal, Patterns; his artwork has been covered in The New York Times, ArtForum, NBC News, Neural, and Mute Magazine.
As a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at Brown University, he created the article on Algorithmic Bias in 2016. He has presented talks, keynotes and works at the University of St. Gallen, California College of the Arts, the University of Maine, Brown University, Melbourne Design Week, RightsCon, and Gensler San Francisco. His work has been exhibited at Eyebeam, CalArts, Brown University, Turbulence, The Internet Archive, and in books including Jon Ippolito & Joline Blais’ At the Edge of Art, Alex Galloway's Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization, and Peter Langford’s Image & Imagination.
He holds a Masters in Media and Communication from the London School of Economics and a Masters in Applied Cybernetics from the Australian National University. He earned two concurrent undergraduate degrees, in New Media and Journalism, from the University of Maine.