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

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

General Ecology

Our ongoing project researching complexity, posthumanism, the environment and climate change.
James Barnor Through the Lens of the New Generation

James Barnor Through the Lens of the New Generation

A new generation of artists reflect on James Barnor's enduring influence.

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140 Ideas
Serpentine Podcast

140 Ideas

A new mini-podcast series inspired by the publication of 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth.

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Forest Dreaming with Aalto

Forest Dreaming with Aalto

Assistant Dean and Professor at Yale School of Architecture Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen explores the relationship between the wood designs of Alvar Aalto and the forest...

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Everything I Say Is True: Poetic Bibliography
In Focus

Everything I Say Is True: Poetic Bibliography

Performance artists Kite presents their script for Everything I Say Is True, now annotated, as part of the Creative AI Lab’s database.

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The Interfaces of AI Art Practices
In Focus

The Interfaces of AI Art Practices

If machine learning is a new paradigm in computing, then why is there no new interface?

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Courtesy of Himali Singh Soin

*Spring is dangerous, like love. And love survives the lovers.*

Himali Singh Soin, together with curator Kostas Stasinopoulos, asked friends to share messages, traces and transmissions of love. Inspired by a letter that a nu...

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Into the Fluid Heart of Wallmapu Territory
In Conversation

Into the Fluid Heart of Wallmapu Territory

As part of ongoing research for Back to Earth, focusing on queer ecologies, scholar and writer Macarena Gómez-Barris speaks with Sebastián Calfuqueo, a Chile...

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Playing Nature: Alenda Y. Chang on Gaming's Role in the Climate Crisis
Interview

Playing Nature: Alenda Y. Chang on Gaming's Role in the Climate Crisis

Cover image: A Pacific Northwest-inspired forest biome from Strange Loop Games' Eco (screenshot credit: John Krajewski) We speak with Alenda Y. Chang, writer, ...

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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 it 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

Originating with science fiction and fantasy writers, the practice of creating imaginary worlds is one that has gone on to influence many contemporary artists t...

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

Text by Youssra Manlaykhaf To encounter the immersive virtual landscapes and meditative soundscapes of Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen is to be transported ...

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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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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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