SERPENTINE ANNOUNCES THE LAUNCH OF THE FUTURE ART ECOSYSTEMS R&D FELLOWSHIP
Serpentine is delighted to announce the launch of the Future Art Ecosystems R&D Fellowship, a new flagship programme of Serpentine’s work facilitating artistic practice, research and experimentation in art and advanced technologies. Supported by a new, three-year partnership with Glass Castle, which also includes a significant contribution to one major commission each year, the fellowship facilitates the inquiries of four pioneering practitioners across art and technology. The programme will connect creative research and development with industry, academia and policy to shape how emerging technologies are developed, understood and used.
Selected from an international open call to artists, curators, organisers, producers and technologists from around the world, that attracted close to 1,000 applications, Alfredo Salazar-Caro, Alice Bucknell, Auriea Harvey and Reina Mun will undertake original research over a six-month programme commencing in September 2026, exploring how advances in AI are reshaping cultural production, institutions and public life.
The fellowship is founded on the belief that artists are not simply observers of technological change, but essential contributors to it, creating opportunities for practitioners to shape wider conversations about how emerging technologies are governed. The fellows will each receive a meaningful bursary and travel to London, to support their research and development activity, as well as dedicated mentorship. Together, the cohort reflects a range of disciplinary perspectives, engaging with questions that sit at the intersection of technology, culture, governance and everyday life. Each fellow approaches technology not as a finished product, but as an unsettled terrain whose assumptions, limits and possibilities need to be redrawn.
About the Jury
Refik Anadol, Artist
Cao Fei, Artist
Holly Herndon, Artist
Lila Ibrahim, Chief AI Readiness Officer, Google DeepMind
Mariana Mazzucato, Author & Economist
Venkatesh Rao, Writer & Consultant
Suneil Setiya, Chair, Glass Castle
Evan Spiegel, Co-Founder & CEO Snap Inc
