As AI becomes embedded across everyday life, its exclusionary mechanics become ever more consequential. Since technical standards determine what is possible today, envisioning alternative futures requires finding new modes of engaging with them. The workshop delves into Orhun's artistic practice at the intersection of such critical engagement with AI and drag. Rather than treating AI as a merely "neutral tool", they approach it as a performative one, and treat systems like deepfakes, voice cloning, and lipsync animations as "drag technologies" that can be turned against themselves through their own failures. The practical part centers on using these technologies to reimagine old Turkish movies, particularly Yeşilçam, and other diasporic media in new and queer ways, reflecting on where the models fail and what ideologies those failures expose. Through artistic practice and queer-ious explorations, the workshop aims to create awareness around what we actually understand under "artificial intelligence" and around the philosophical implications of using these systems.

Through their proposed methodologies of dragging and unlearning, Mersin & Uçkunkaya work with contemporary AI technologies from the inside, inhabiting its imaginaries while refusing their closures. They treat uncertainty as a generative force, drawing on disidentificatory strategies and drag practices. Through shared narration and hands-on experimentation with deepfake technologies, their workshop and performance open space for queer play and the ongoing reimagining of artificial imaginaries from within.

Drag and deepfakes share a common thread: both employ methods of appropriation to reimagine and subvert reality. The workshop engages with Orhun's queer-feminist research, drawing parallels between these practices. Through hands-on experimentation with a "curious queer-use" of deepfake technologies, participants embark on a personal journey, playfully reappropriating their dreams.