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Arts Technologies

Working with artists to explore and experiment with the most advanced technologies of our day.
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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.
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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R&D at Arts Institutions
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Research & Development at the Art Institution

What would it mean for a cultural institution to make their programmes matter not only artistically, but infrastructurally?

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Still from forthcoming ML/AI Interfaces Tutorial Series, 2020. Image courtesy of Trust, Berlin
Interview

A Different Research Agenda: Julia Kaganskiy Introduces the Creative AI Lab

Over the past few years, artificial intelligence (AI) has captivated the imagination of the art world.

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The London Mastaba, Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park, 2016-18, Photo: Wolfgang Volz
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Christo in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist

Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Christo

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Design Talk: Re-Learning Perspectives
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Design Talk: Re-Learning Perspectives

How can design intersections support processes of change? As part of DEZEEN's Virtual Design Festival collaboration with...

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Back to Earth: Tracing the Roots
Serpentine Podcast

Back to Earth: Tracing the Roots

What does designing with and for the non-human mean?

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Back to Earth: By Leaves We Listen
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Back to Earth: By Leaves We Listen

How can botanical knowledge support practices of ecological and personal healing?

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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...

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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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On Work: Algorithmic Superstructures
Serpentine Podcast

On Work: Algorithmic Superstructures

How are algorithms shaping the world of work?

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Serpentine Podcast

General Ecology: We Make Tomorrow

What are artists’ roles in knowing or making tomorrow? What are alternative ways of knowing our planet?

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Back to Earth: Drops make an ocean
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Back to Earth: Drops make an ocean

One of the core ecological principles of Back to Earth: we are all interconnected, smaller pieces of a larger whole.

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Faith Ringgold Playlist

Listen to the sound of Harlem with this special playlist created by Faith Ringgold and her daughter Michele Wallace.

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Back to Earth: Sowing the seeds
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Back to Earth: Sowing the seeds

How are artists developing campaigns for the Earth? How can an artwork reconnect us with the environment?

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Bridge Commission Audio Walks
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Bridge Commission Audio Walks

A series of audio recordings by writers, including novelists Adam Thirlwell, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Valeria Luiselli.

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Christo presented The London Mastaba, Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park 2016 - 2018, a temporary floating sculpture on The Serpentine Lake.
Interview

Film interview with Christo

Christo presented The London Mastaba, Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park 2016 - 2018, a temporary floating sculpture.

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Interview

Interview with Cao Fei

This exhibition brings together new and existing works in an immersive, site-specific installation.

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Interview

Antenna Fantasma

A conversation series exploring the intersection between design, ecology and sustainability, hosted by Formfantasma.

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Faith Ringgold interview
Interview

Interview with Faith Ringgold

"Anyone can fly. All you gotta do is try" The ground-breaking work of Faith Ringgold (b. 1930, Harlem, New York) is celebr...

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Formafantasma. Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin
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Interview with Formafantasma

Formafantasma are designers who dissect the ecological and political responsibilities of their discipline.

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Interview with Luchita Hurtado, discussing her Serpentine exhibition 'I Live I Die I Will Be Reborn'
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Interview with Luchita Hurtado

The exhibition reveals the scale, experimentation and playfulness of Hurtado's impressive oeuvre.

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Still from forthcoming ML/AI Interfaces Tutorial Series, 2020. Image courtesy of Trust, Berlin
Interview

Luba Elliott on the Emergence of the Creative AI Field

Eva Jäger, Mercedes Bunz & Luba Elliott discuss the landscape of AI and how Elliott built a Creative AI community in London.

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The London Mastaba, Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park, 2016-18, Photo: Wolfgang Volz
Interview

Christo in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist

Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Christo

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Still from forthcoming ML/AI Interfaces Tutorial Series, 2020. Image courtesy of Trust, Berlin
Interview

A Different Research Agenda: Julia Kaganskiy Introduces the Creative AI Lab

Over the past few years, artificial intelligence (AI) has captivated the imagination of the art world.

Read more +
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...

Read more +
R&D at Arts Institutions
In Focus

Research & Development at the Art Institution

What would it mean for a cultural institution to make their programmes matter not only artistically, but infrastructurally?

Read more +

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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