Enrique Encinas Pollos

• Vink, Josina; Chan, Daphne; Encinas, Enrique & Bhattacharya, Shreya (2026). Undisciplining service design: Towards a grammar of possibility. The Design Journal. ISSN 1460-6925. s. 24–24. doi: 10.1080/14606925.2026.2724081. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Despite its ambitions to transform service systems, service design has been critiqued for reproducing the status quo and normalizing others into dominant social expectations. To move away from the circulation of hegemonic structures, the service design discipline needs to be challenged. Drawing on queer theory, this paper explores how service design can be undisciplined to create a grammar of possibility for making service systems otherwise. Based on experiences from an experimental seven-week service design research and education collaboration with hospital-based mental health services in Norway, this research presents a queer framework that highlights the failings that ensue when we play with, or dis/order, traditional service design. This research offers an opening for expansive ways of untraining, undoing and forgetting that attempt to resist mastery in service design. To encourage continued experimentation, the paper provides playful and provocative prompts for undisciplining service design in practice, education and research.

• Encinas, Enrique; Morrison, Andrew; Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Dolejšová, Markéta & Hill, John (2026). Rhythm and Residue: Vyping as Prompting Inside the Post-Discursive Interface. I Havinen, Laura & Hägglund, Susanne (Red.), Adjunct Proceedings of the 14th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ISSN 9798400727986. s. 1–9. doi: 10.1145/3821402.3830167. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Prompt engineering strategies emphasise clarity, specificity, and well-structured input, on the assumption that large language models (LLMs) require clean input to interpret user intent. But LLMs are pattern interpolators: they “absorb” noise through statistical reconstruction rather than strict symbol matching. Text-centric HCI has studied this tolerance for two decades without integrating it into prompt engineering as a resource. We introduce vyping as an intentional mode of prompting in which one types into LLMs at the speed of thought, without correction. We developed vyping through sustained first-person inquiry. It can be seen as a micro-practice inside a broader post-discursive turn in which meanings increasingly travel as rhythms and patterns through latent-space proximity rather than as precisely-formed symbols. The mismatch between current LLM interfaces and their (human) users has led to two common layers in implementation: (1) an orthographic residue at the interface (autocorrect, spellcheck, tidy-prompt guides), and (2) an impairment parse shadow at the training layer, a form of overalignment in which the model reads orthographic deviation as a sign that something is wrong with the user. Overall, we offer three attunements (ease, reach, and pulse) as alternatives to efficiency-first prompt engineering, and situate the practice within critical HCI traditions of seamful, frictional, and embodied interaction. The critique is structured around a seed prompt that suspends the impairment parse and makes vyping livable; its section headings are taken from the prompt’s own rules. A copy of the seed prompt is provided at the end.

• Encinas, Enrique & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2026). The Perfect Wrong Note: Vyping and the Keyboard as Musical Interface for Human-LLM Interaction. I Gaster, Benedict & Tragtenberg, João Nogueira (Red.), Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.20784433. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Human interaction with large language models (LLMs) is commonly framed as information exchange, optimized for efficiency and correctness. This paper proposes a different framing: keyboard-as-instrument, where typing to an LLM becomes a form of musical practice. Drawing on the lineage of keyboard instruments, the action-sound framework, and the aesthetics of failure in jazz improvisation and glitch music, the paper introduces vyping (typing without looking) as a technique that treats degraded input as an expressive gesture. When a person vypes, inter-onset intervals and keystroke dynamics carry embodied information that the LLM can integrate, in a process closer to musical comping (responsive accompaniment) than to improvisation proper. Three artifacts (ll00mtube, clix-vibe, and KeyMeter) illustrate this approach, making the temporal and sonic dimensions of typing visible and audible. The paper argues that typos can function as grace notes: productive deviations that open new directions. It proposes reverence (nuance, grace, and respect) as a design orientation for human-AI interaction, while acknowledging the discomfort of caring for a tool entangled with extractive labor and concentrated corporate power.

• Vink, Josina; Encinas, Enrique; Chan, Daphne & Bhattacharya, Shreya (2025). Playing with Failure: A Queer Framework for Making Service Systems Otherwise. ServDes'25. doi: 10.21606/servdes2025.41. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Despite its claims of driving transformation in service systems, service design often ends up reproducing the status quo and normalizing others into dominant social expectations. If we want to move away from the circulation of hegemonic structures within the practice, the service design discipline needs to be challenged. This paper explores how service design can be undisciplined to create a grammar of possibility for making service systems otherwise. Drawing on experiences from an experimental 7-week service design research and education collaboration with hospital-based mental health services in Norway, this research presents a queer framework that reveals the entanglement of normative and counter-normative pressures as well as contradictory desires when attempting at designing otherwise. The framework highlights the failings that ensue when we play with, or dis/order, traditional service design. This research offers an opening for anti-disciplinary service design knowledge and expansive ways of untraining, undoing and forgetting that attempt to resist mastery in service design education.

• Jensen, Rikke Hagensby; Pollos, Enrique Encinas; Strengers, Yolande; Dannesboe, Christian; Kruuse, Erik & Skovby, Jesper [Vis alle 9 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2023). Provotyping Accountability: Exploring Smartphone Use in the Home through Design. I Byrne, Daragh (Red.), DIS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. ACM Digital Library. ISSN 9781450398930. doi: 10.1145/3563657.3596024. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Green, David Philip; Lindley, Joseph; Pollos, Enrique Encinas; Dore, Mayane; Benjamin, Jesse Joshua & Bofylatos, Spyros (2023). Ways of seeing design research: A polyphonic speculation. Nordic Design Research. doi: 10.21606/nordes.2023.96. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pollos, Enrique Encinas; Helgason, Ingi; Auger, James; Mitrović, Ivica & hanna, julian (2023). Speculative designs in educational settings: Tension-patterns from a (mostly) European perspective. Nordic Design Research. doi: 10.21606/nordes.2023.98. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Helgason, Ingi; Pollos, Enrique Encinas & Smyth, Michael (2022). Speculative and Critical Design: Approaches and influences in education. ID&A Interaction design & architecture(s). ISSN 1826-9745. s. 5–7. doi: 10.55612/s-5002-051-001psi. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Encinas, Enrique (2026). TAO — Transductive Acoustic Organism: A Persistent, Self-Hosted AI Instrument for Artistic Research. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Poster presented at the opening conference of MishMash Centre for AI and Creativity. The poster presents TAO, a persistent artistic-research instrument assembled from open-weight models for multimodal language, music generation and sound generation, running on a single self-hosted machine. Developed with MishMash seed funding as research infrastructure, TAO addresses what AI infrastructure artists and cultural institutions need in order to work critically, experimentally and sustainably.

• Snow, Danny; Cohen, Alexander; Schütt, Johanna; Lindley, Joseph & Encinas, Enrique (2026). dissonance.craitr.no: Live Performance with Generative AI at NordiCHI 2026. doi: https:/dissonance.craitr.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Live performance by the organisers of the Dissonance Workshop during NordiCHI 2026, the 14th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Vaasa. The performance explored generative friction between human performers and AI systems in a live setting, extending the workshop's inquiry into public performance.

• Snow, Danny; Cohen, Alexander; Encinas, Enrique; Schütt, Johanna; Lindley, Joseph & Barry, Marguerite (2026). The Dissonance Workshop: Live Performance and Generative Friction with AI. doi: https:/www.dissonanceworkshop.com. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Full-day workshop at NordiCHI 2026, the 14th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. The workshop brought together researchers, designers, artists and performers to examine friction, surprise and loss of control in creative and performance practice with generative AI, through position papers, collective exercises and live performance.

• Hviding, Ilse Svortevik; Dolejšová, Markéta; Encinas, Enrique & Halmøy, Ulrik Antoniussen (2026). The Sofienberg Naturalization Bureau. doi: https:/www.oslotriennale.no/program/naturalization-bureau. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Interactive workshop and installation in the programme of the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2026, What if nature comes first. The Bureau examined the contested meanings of the term natural in architecture, design and everyday life: participants presented cases supported by material evidence, while a self-hosted language model documented the proceedings. Sixteen cases were heard. Organised by Ilse Svortevik Hviding, Markéta Dolejšová, Enrique Encinas and Ulrik Antoniussen Halmøy.

• Encinas, Enrique (2026). Posthuman Radio: Participation in a Live Broadcast at Ars Electronica 2026. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Participation as invited contributor in Posthuman Radio, a live broadcast at the Ars Electronica Festival 2026, convened by Ash Eliza Smith, Iohanna Nicenboim and Rachel Pearl.

• Encinas, Enrique (2026). Usage and Needs of AI Infrastructure for Creative Practice: Contribution to the MACHINES Panel. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Invited contribution to the MACHINES panel at the opening conference of MishMash Centre for AI and Creativity, addressing the current use of AI infrastructure in art and design education and research, and the infrastructural needs of creative practitioners in Norwegian institutions.

• Encinas, Enrique; Jahr, Ida; Bull, Synne Tollerud; Aareskjold-Drecker, Jon Marius & Chattopadhyay, Budhaditya (2026). New Embeddings #01 (Nå telte han deg også): Participatory Grouping through Machine-Learning Embeddings. doi: https:/ne01.craitr.no/. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Participatory workshop and installation at the opening conference of MishMash Centre for AI and Creativity. Thirty-eight participants were grouped by a machine-learning model on the basis of voice notes recorded in four languages; the installation displayed the model's representation of the audience and documented participants' refusals, making the limits of algorithmic grouping a subject of collective discussion.

• Encinas, Enrique; Schütt, Johanna; Cohen, Alexander; Carver, Scott & Ramirez, Pedro (2026). AGENTHYMIA: A Creative Research and Development Studio on Building AI Agents. doi: https:/agenthymia.craitr.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Four-day international studio within the Experimental AI module of Ars Biologica Independent Studies (ABIS), hosted at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (AVU). Participating practitioners designed and built their own AI agents on shared, open research infrastructure.

• Encinas, Enrique & Hansen, Henrik Mojo (2026). Mossferaitu: A Performance in Five Movements with Generative AI Sound. doi: https:/mossferaitu.craitr.no/v12/site. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  One-hour live performance in five movements by Ariachne (Enrique Encinas and Henrik Mojo Hansen), presented at Lysenetter, Moss. The work explores generative artificial intelligence as a performative sound material and examines the relation between human performers and machine-generated sound in a live setting.

• Encinas, Enrique & Dolejšová, Markéta (2026). Edge Effects (Hedgevype): Multispecies Fieldwork in South Bohemia. doi: https:/www.budejovice2028.eu/en/blog/ars-biologica-independent-studies-abis-programme-multispecies-research-module-20. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Field-based workshop within the multispecies research module of Ars Biologica Independent Studies (ABIS), part of České Budějovice European Capital of Culture 2028. The workshop investigated ecological edge effects through multispecies fieldwork in South Bohemia, contributing material to the forthcoming Multispecies Research Almanac.

• Encinas, Enrique & Simian, Ricardo (2026). OpenAcoustics: Launch of an Acoustic Telepresence Installation for Maritime Contexts. doi: https:/craitr.no/oa/. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Presentation and launch of OpenAcoustics, an acoustic telepresence installation developed as research infrastructure, at a workshop of the Ocean Industries Concept Lab (AHO). The installation was tested with 27 participants from the maritime industry, including representatives of Kongsberg, DNV and Massterly, as a means of investigating remote auditory presence in maritime operations.

• Encinas, Enrique (2026). Creative Practice with Generative AI: Making Sense of Noise. doi: https:/makingsense.craitr.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Keynote lecture delivered at the 90th anniversary of Stavanger Arkitektforening. The lecture examines creative practice with generative artificial intelligence in architecture and design, and proposes noise, error and ambiguity as productive materials for design inquiry rather than defects to be eliminated.

• Encinas, Enrique; Morrison, Andrew; Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Dolejšová, Markéta & Hill, John (2026). Rhythm and Residue: Vyping as Prompting Inside the Post-Discursive Interface. doi: https:/rhyres.craitr.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Prompt engineering strategies emphasise clarity, specificity, and well-structured input, on the assumption that large language models (LLMs) require clean input to interpret user intent. But LLMs are pattern interpolators: they “absorb” noise through statistical reconstruction rather than strict symbol matching. Text-centric HCI has studied this tolerance for two decades without integrating it into prompt engineering as a resource. We introduce vyping as an intentional mode of prompting in which one types into LLMs at the speed of thought, without correction. We developed vyping through sustained first-person inquiry. It can be seen as a micro-practice inside a broader post-discursive turn in which meanings increasingly travel as rhythms and patterns through latent-space proximity rather than as precisely-formed symbols. The mismatch between current LLM interfaces and their (human) users has led to two common layers in implementation: (1) an orthographic residue at the interface (autocorrect, spellcheck, tidy-prompt guides), and (2) an impairment parse shadow at the training layer, a form of overalignment in which the model reads orthographic deviation as a sign that something is wrong with the user. Overall, we offer three attunements (ease, reach, and pulse) as alternatives to efficiency-first prompt engineering, and situate the practice within critical HCI traditions of seamful, frictional, and embodied interaction. The critique is structured around a seed prompt that suspends the impairment parse and makes vyping livable; its section headings are taken from the prompt’s own rules. A copy of the seed prompt is provided at the end.

• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum; Fasciani, Stefano; Christodoulou, Anna-Maria; Encinas, Enrique & Mellingen, Keith (2026). Building a Norwegian Ecosystem for AI and Creativity. doi: https:/alexarje.github.io/mishmash-machines-kristiansand2026/. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This roundtable discussion focused on the AI infrastructure that Norwegian higher education, students, teachers, freelancers, and the public and private sectors have access to today, and how MishMash can help improve the situation.

• Encinas, Enrique & Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2026). The Perfect Wrong Note: Vyping and the Keyboard as Musical Interface for Human-LLM Interaction. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.20784433. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Human interaction with large language models (LLMs) is commonly framed as information exchange, optimized for efficiency and correctness. This paper proposes a different framing: keyboard-as-instrument, where typing to an LLM becomes a form of musical practice. Drawing on the lineage of keyboard instruments, the action-sound framework, and the aesthetics of failure in jazz improvisation and glitch music, the paper introduces vyping (typing without looking) as a technique that treats degraded input as an expressive gesture. When a person vypes, inter-onset intervals and keystroke dynamics carry embodied information that the LLM can integrate, in a process closer to musical comping (responsive accompaniment) than to improvisation proper. Three artifacts (ll00mtube, clix-vibe, and KeyMeter) illustrate this approach, making the temporal and sonic dimensions of typing visible and audible. The paper argues that typos can function as grace notes: productive deviations that open new directions. It proposes reverence (nuance, grace, and respect) as a design orientation for human-AI interaction, while acknowledging the discomfort of caring for a tool entangled with extractive labor and concentrated corporate power.

• Jahr, Ida & Encinas, Enrique (2026). MishMash and New Embeddings: Art, technology and research. doi: https:/www.mn.uio.no/hylleraas/english/news-and-events/events/events-in-oslo/2026/jp-no-research-alliance-2026.html. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Encinas, Enrique; Jahr, Ida; Bull, Synne Tollerud; Aareskjold-Drecker, Jon Marius & Chattopadhyay, Budhaditya (2026). NE #00: New Embeddings of/for Artistic Intelligence. doi: https:/ars.electronica.art/negotiatinghumanity/en/view/ne-00-new-embeddings-of-for-artistic-intelligence-39f38ddb450c81b5a2e1e4b478396502/. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  NE #00: New Embeddings of/for Artistic Intelligence was a participatory workshop presented at Ars Electronica 2026 that explored how new forms of artistic intelligence might emerge when artists, institutions, scholars, scientists, and technologists organise around shared needs rather than disciplinary boundaries. The workshop asked how AI might support, rather than determine, such collaborations, and how alternative infrastructures for artistic and interdisciplinary practice might be developed. Structured as an exchange rather than a conventional presentation, participants articulated what they need in relation to generative AI, what they can contribute, and what they refuse. These contributions included conceptual approaches, technical and institutional infrastructures, artistic methods, knowledge, and resources. Participants clustered around points of convergence and translated these into concrete offers, requests, and possible collaborations recorded in a shared ledger. The workshop initiated the New Embeddings series as an experimental format for building interdisciplinary connections around artistic intelligence and generative AI through collective exchange and the formation of new “neighborhoods” of practice.

• Encinas, Enrique; Bull, Synne Tollerud; Dolejšová, Markéta & Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2026). F@ck AI or else… A roundtable discussion on music and art among cursed algorithms. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  AI keeps faking it until it makes it as infrastructure. Vibing effortlessly with wearing language as interface for doomstyle hype, timewarping efficiency, subscription-based fate and a long generative etc. So, let's talk about something else… The roundtable moves between creative practice and research, speculation and error, embodiment and idiocy. Beyond ritual denunciation or loving embrace, we open a conversation about the pleasures, traps, politics, and odd possibilities of working with these tools to learn (and act on) how they set the terms. As the slogans dry out: how to resist, how to misuse, how to play inside systems built to smooth everything into an average slop(py) shape. After the refusal, after the fatigue, after the sales pitch and the creative ditch, what else? Organized by AHO's CRAITR research group

• Bull, Synne Tollerud; Jahr, Ida; Encinas, Enrique; Lilleng, Hedda Foss & Renneflott, Lene (2026). Design Agentics :: Creative R&D x AI. doi: https:/www.grafill.no/grafillshus/kalender/design-agentics-creative-r-d-x-ai. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Arrangementet Design Agentics: Creative R&D x AI undersøker kunstig intelligens som en integrert del av design- og kunstpraksis, ikke bare som verktøy, men som infrastrukturell og agentisk aktør. Gjennom en studentpresentasjon av egenutviklede AI-baserte verktøy og en påfølgende panel- og rundebordsdiskusjon med forskere og bransjeaktører, tematiserer arrangementet hvordan kreative praktikere kan forholde seg kritisk og operativt til eksisterende AI-systemer. Fokus ligger på spørsmål om handlingsrom, makt og design i møte med ferdigdefinerte teknologiske infrastrukturer, samt muligheter for å omforme, tilpasse eller motsette seg disse. Arrangementet avsluttes med lanseringen av forskningsgruppen CRAITR ved AHO.

• Encinas, Enrique (2025). Participation as Panelist in PhD Research Colloquium at the Academy of Fine Arts Prague (AVU). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Encinas, Enrique (2024). Un/learning with a Dragon : More Than Human Design and the river Akerselva. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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