Please Don’t Understand This invited creators in communities closest to the impacts of algorithmic culture to imagine their own visual symbols and languages to share their experiences of living with artificial intelligence and surveillance.

Works by artists in Beijing, China; Dzaleka, Malawi; and Cairo, Egypt were then shared and remixed by diasporic Toronto-based creators.

The goal was to communicate in ways that confuse those that administer these systems and as an alternative to the abstracted approaches of Western ethical traditions.