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General Ecology

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

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Projects that connect communities and artists to generate responses to pressing social issues.

Arts Technologies

Working with artists to explore and experiment with the most advanced technologies of our day.
Firewalking: The Institute of Queer Ecology on Fire Island

Firewalking: The Institute of Queer Ecology on Fire Island

"A queer ecological practice demands that we see ourselves in community with other species, instead of above them."

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Jennifer Packer's Political Still Lifes & Intimate Portraits Centre Black lives
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Jennifer Packer's Political Still Lifes & Intimate Portraits Centre Black lives

Get acquainted with the work of New York-based painter Jennifer Packer and some of the works in her exhibition, The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing.

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Reading List: The Understory of the Understory
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Reading List: The Understory of the Understory

A reading list from the team behind The Understory of the Understory, an art & ecology festival on soil, earth, land and ground.

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Serpentine Podcast presents: Future Ecologies: On Fire
Serpentine Podcast

Serpentine Podcast presents: Future Ecologies: On Fire

A history of burning with Future Ecologies podcast.

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Back to Earth: Can I Get Back To You?
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Back to Earth: Can I Get Back To You?

Artists, poets and curators consider where the environmental and the artistic truly meet?

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Aesthetics of New AI
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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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In Conversation: Hans Ulrich Obrist Meets the Artists Shortlisted for the Rolls-Royce Dream Commission
Interview

In Conversation: Hans Ulrich Obrist Meets the Artists Shortlisted for the Rolls-Royce Dream Commission

A conversation around dreams with Hans Ulrich Obrist and artists Sondra Perry, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Martine Syms and Zhou Tao.

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The Last Furniture: Martino Gamper's Tribute to Enzo Mari
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The Last Furniture: Martino Gamper's Tribute to Enzo Mari

Martino Gamper pays tribute to the late furniture designer Enzo Mari with two coffins created in the style of Mari’s seminal Autoprogettazione method.

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Spotlight On: Jennifer Packer

Jennifer Packer's Political Still Lifes & Intimate Portraits Centre Black lives
In Focus

Jennifer Packer's Political Still Lifes & Intimate Portraits Centre Black lives

Get acquainted with the work of New York-based painter Jennifer Packer and some of the works in her exhibition, The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing.

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Interview: Jennifer Packer
Interview

Interview: Jennifer Packer

Jennifer Packer discusses themes of race, power, loss and belief that run through her work.

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The Interview

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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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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In Conversation: Hans Ulrich Obrist Meets the Artists Shortlisted for the Rolls-Royce Dream Commission
Interview

In Conversation: Hans Ulrich Obrist Meets the Artists Shortlisted for the Rolls-Royce Dream Commission

A conversation around dreams with Hans Ulrich Obrist and artists Sondra Perry, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Martine Syms and Zhou Tao.

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Designer Yasaman Sheri on Building more Pathways for Art-Science Creativity (and Eavesdropping on Bacteria)
Interview

Designer Yasaman Sheri on Building more Pathways for Art-Science Creativity (and Eavesdropping on Bacteria)

Victoria Ivanova, R&D Strategist at the Serpentine, speaks to Yasaman Sheri about her multifaceted practice, the challenges of art and science collaboration...

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Nova Cao Fei
Interview

In Conversation: Changing Realities and Speculative Fictions in the work of Cao Fei

Angela Chan, curator of the Worm: art + ecology project sat down with science fiction writers Gu Shi and Regina Kanyu Wang to discuss world-building and magical...

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Artful Essays

Paola Antonelli on Design and the Politics of Wood
Interview

Paola Antonelli on Design and the Politics of Wood

Agenda-setting MoMA Curator Paola Antonelli considers the journey of wood throughout history.

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Firewalking: The Institute of Queer Ecology on Fire Island

Firewalking: The Institute of Queer Ecology on Fire Island

"A queer ecological practice demands that we see ourselves in community with other species, instead of above them."

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