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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

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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Aesthetics of New AI

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

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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Paola Antonelli on Design and the Politics of Wood

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

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 collaborations, and how the new Synthe...

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

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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Unpacking the Problems and Potentials of the Timber Industry with Formafantasma

Rebecca Lewin, the Serpentine's Curator of Exhibitions & Design, interviews Formafantasma about the making of Cambio.

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Rebecca Allen on Kraftwerk, Video Games and Artificial Life

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 of sense to me." Rebecc...

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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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