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Working with artists to explore and experiment with the most advanced technologies of our day.

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Our ongoing project researching complexity, posthumanism, the environment and climate change.

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Excavating the Social Layers of London
In Focus

Excavating the Social Layers of London

Colin Prescod responds to Sumayya Vally’s extensive research into diasporic sites of meeting, organising and belonging across London.

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Counterimage
In Focus

Counterimage

Emanuel Admassu responds to the 2021 Serpentine Pavilion.

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Recipes as Archive: Angela Dimayuga
Interview

Recipes as Archive: Angela Dimayuga

Chef Angela Dimayuga speaks about the personal and collective histories held in recipes.

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Recipes as Archive: Sanza Sandile
Interview

Recipes as Archive: Sanza Sandile

Chef Sanza Sandile reflects on 20 years spent cooking for a diverse and vibrant community of migrants in Johannesburg's Yeoville.

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Recipes as Archive: Marie Mitchell
Interview

Recipes as Archive: Marie Mitchell

Chef Marie Mitchell reflects on the ancestral nature of food and its capacity to heal.

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Belonging in Unbelonging: Sumayya Vally & Adrian Lahoud in Conversation
In Conversation

Belonging in Unbelonging: Sumayya Vally & Adrian Lahoud in Conversation

"Architecture is an extension of who we are and how we recognize ourselves and how we assert our forms of belonging."

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Serpentine Podcast: Playtesting
Serpentine Podcast

Serpentine Podcast: Playtesting

In Playtesting, we speak to artists working with the metaverse, from counter archives for Black liberation to decentralised frameworks.

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James Barnor Through the Lens of the New Generation

James Barnor Through the Lens of the New Generation

A new era of artists, photographers, filmmakers and fashion designers reflect on James Barnor's enduring influence.

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Serpentine Podcast: On Practice

On Practice: Cooking
Serpentine Podcast

On Practice: Cooking

How can cooking bring people together and provide nourishment and care?

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On Practice: Listening
Serpentine Podcast

On Practice: Listening

How can listening form a space of political encounter?

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On Practice: Walking
Serpentine Podcast

On Practice: Walking

How can walking be used as a tool for resistance and change?

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Reading List: On Practice

Reading List: On Practice

A reading list compiled by Serpentine Education & Civic Curators on the occasion of a new podcast series: On Practice.

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Art + Technology

Artists World Illustration
In Focus

Ecological World-Building: From Science Fiction to Virtual Reality

Alice Bucknell draws a line from the otherworldly, ecological imaginings of writers like Octavia Butler to the "digital gardening" practices of artists like Jak...

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An Introduction to Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s New Realities
In Focus

An Introduction to Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s New Realities

To encounter the immersive virtual landscapes and meditative soundscapes of Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen is to be transported to a new world.

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Jenna Sutela, I Magma App, 2019. Co-commissioned by Moderna Museet and Serpentine Galleries, 2019. Image courtesy of the artist.
Serpentine Podcast

Back to Earth: Systems and Sprouts

How are artists using technologies to imagine alternate realities, new alien languages and manipulate time?

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Filmmaker Kim Heecheon is Using Technology to Test the Limits of Reality
Interview

Filmmaker Kim Heecheon is Using Technology to Test the Limits of Reality

Kim Heecheon and Hans Ulrich Obrist discuss discuss world-building, virtual reality and Pokémon GO.

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The umbra of an imago: Writing under control of machine learning
In Focus

The umbra of an imago: Writing under control of machine learning

Allison Parrish draws parallels between automatic writing and writing under the control of automation.

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Rebecca Allen on Kraftwerk, Video Games and Artificial Life
Interview

Rebecca Allen on Kraftwerk, Video Games and Artificial Life

"Artists are inventors too; coming up with new ideas and new forms of expression, so to be in a research lab and to be an artist inventing new things made a lot...

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Aesthetics of New AI
In Focus

Aesthetics of New AI

How do we find the balance between researching AI as a technical object, without distancing it as “other” to the human?

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Back to Earth

Into The Archives: Vivienne Westwood's Climate Activism
In Focus

Into The Archives: Vivienne Westwood's Climate Activism

We take a look back at the pioneer’s ongoing relationship with Serpentine.

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In Conversation: Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen with Lucia Pietroiusti
In Conversation

In Conversation: Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen with Lucia Pietroiusti

Back to Earth artists consider how art, design and philosophy can effect long-term change in the face of ecological crisis.

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Back to Earth: Standing with the Forest
Serpentine Podcast

Back to Earth: Standing with the Forest

We listen to Indigenous organisations fighting extraction and climate change and the artists working with them.

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Back to Earth: Queer Currents
Serpentine Podcast

Back to Earth: Queer Currents

Artists and thinkers join the dots between queer theory and environmental activism and climate justice.

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Serpentine Podcast

Bringing together the artists, writers and thinkers of our time to explore timely questions around technology, ecology and equality.

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Podcasting for the Arts with Reduced Listening

Archive

Discover 50 years of the Serpentine

From the architecture pavilion and digital commissions to the ideas marathon and the General Ecology programme, explore 50 years of artists, projects and exhibitions.

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