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Arts Technologies

The Arts Technologies programme at the Serpentine Galleries proposes critical and interdisciplinary perspectives on advanced technologies through artistic interventions.

Challenging and reshaping the role that technologies can play in culture and society is part of the Serpentine’s commitment to supporting new artistic experiments at what has now become a historical intersection. The programme initiates and supports artists in developing ambitious artworks that deploy advanced technologies as a medium, tool or topic, often operating beyond gallery walls.

The foundation of the Arts Technologies programme is located in an evolving R&D Platform that supports the development of infrastructures for ongoing artistic exploration and interrogation of advanced and emerging technologies.

R&D Platform

The foundation of the Arts Technologies programme is located in an evolving R&D Platform that supports the development of infrastructures for ongoing artistic exploration and ...

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Future Art Ecosystems Live: Rachel Armstrong x Rival Strategy

Future Art Ecosystems Live: Rachel Armstrong x Rival Strategy

Online 7 Aug 2020 Free

Join pioneering architect Rachel Armstrong and Rival Strategy for a live conversation.

Legal Lab

Online September 2019

Exploring how the law can better support collaborations across art, science and technology

Future Art Ecosystems

Future Art Ecosystems

Online 9 Jul 2020 – Ongoing

Future Art Ecosystems takes the shape of an annual strategic briefing for practitioners and organisations with an interest in the development of future art ecos...

Credit: Image courtesy of Furtherfield, 2019

Blockchain Lab

Online June 2019 – Ongoing

Supporting network development between visionary artists, cultural workers, blockchain entrepreneurs.

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

Creative AI Lab

Online 9 Jul 2020 – Ongoing

A collaboration between Serpentine Galleries R&D Platform and the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College.

Jakob Kudsk Steensen: The Deep Listener

Serpentine Gallery Online 12 Jul 2019 – ongoing Free

A site-specific public artwork and digital archive of five species, designed as an augmented reality and spatial audio work.

Jakob Kudsk Steensen: Catharsis

Jakob Kudsk Steensen: Catharsis

Online 14 Jan — 31 May 2020 Free

Discover Jakob Kudsk Steensen's portal to a virtual forest.

Jenna Sutela: I Magma (App)

Jenna Sutela: I Magma (App)

Online 2 Oct 2019 – ongoing Free

This comprises an app for mobile devices which can be downloaded and experienced anywhere, and an exhibition in Stockholm.

Suzanne Treister: From SURVIVOR (F) to The Escapist BHST (Black Hole Spacetime)

Suzanne Treister: From SURVIVOR (F) to The Escapist BHST (Black Hole Spacetime)

Online 19 September 2019 – ongoing Free

Suzanne Treister explores emerging technologies, alternative belief systems and potential human futures.

Hito Steyerl: Actual Reality OS

Hito Steyerl: Actual Reality OS

Online 11 April 2019 — 31 January 2020 Free

Visitors were prompted to view an app that uses augmented reality to show Actual RealityOS.

Ian Cheng: Bad Corgi

Ian Cheng: Bad Corgi

Online 24 Sep 2015 – ongoing Free

Ian Cheng invites you to enter the world of Bad Corgi: a shadowy mindfulness app for contemplating chaos.

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

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.

R&D at Arts Institutions

Research & Development at the Art Institution

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

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

Back to Earth: Systems and Sprouts

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

Suzanne Treister, The Escapist BHST (Black Hole Spacetime)/Museum of Black Hole Spacetime 1, 2018-19. Courtesy the artist, Annely Juda Fine Art, London and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York

The Museum of Black Hole Spacetime Séance with Suzanne Treister

Online 29 Oct 2020

Join Suzanne Treister online for a virtual séance to a hypothetical museum in the cosmos.

Aesthetics of new AI—Panel Discussion

Aesthetics of new AI—Panel Discussion

Online 9 Oct 2020

A panel discussion on machine learning and its aesthetic capacity with Mercedes Bunz, Leif Weatherby, Nora Khan & Joanna Zylinska.

Cao Fei: Blueprints

Cao Fei: Blueprints

Serpentine Gallery 4 Aug — 13 Sep 2020

Cao Fei is a multi-media artist and filmmaker based in Beijing.

Jenna Sutela x Stefanie Hessler, Live Q&A

Jenna Sutela x Stefanie Hessler, Live Q&A

Online 19 Aug 2020

A live discussion about meaning and randomness in Jenna Sutela's work.

Future Art Ecosystems Live: Rachel Armstrong x Rival Strategy

Future Art Ecosystems Live: Rachel Armstrong x Rival Strategy

Online 7 Aug 2020

Join pioneering architect Rachel Armstrong and Rival Strategy for a live conversation.

The Long Time Sessions: Deep Time Culture: Future Art Ecosystems

The Long Time Sessions: Deep Time Culture: Future Art Ecosystems

Online 9 Jul 2020

A fortnightly online talk series on cultivating care for the world beyond our lifetimes.

Jakob Kudsk Steensen: Catharsis

Jakob Kudsk Steensen: Catharsis

Online 14 Jan — 31 May 2020

Discover Jakob Kudsk Steensen's portal to a virtual forest.

Hito Steyerl: Actual Reality OS

Hito Steyerl: Actual Reality OS

Online 11 April 2019 — 31 January 2020

Visitors were prompted to view an app that uses augmented reality to show Actual RealityOS.

Serpentine Augmented Architecture

Serpentine Augmented Architecture

1 Jan — 31 Dec 2019

Augmented Architecture connects the Serpentine’s expertise in commissioning new architecture with its work in the field of advanced technologies.

AGNES

Online 6 February 2014 — 31 May 2019

The first in a series of digital commissions by Cécile B. Evans, coinciding with the launch of the 2014 Serpentine website.

Hito Steyerl: Power Plants

Hito Steyerl: Power Plants

Serpentine North Gallery 11 Apr — 6 May 2019

Steyerl's work explores the complexities of the digital world, art, capitalism and the implications of Artificial Intelligence for society.

Pierre Huyghe: UUmwelt

Pierre Huyghe: UUmwelt

Serpentine Gallery 3 October 2018 — 10 February 2019

The exhibition was changed irrevocably and unpredictably over the course of the time in which it existed.

New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future: James Bridle in conversation with Ben Vickers

New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future: James Bridle in conversation with Ben Vickers

Offsite 28 Jun 2018

An evening with artist and writer James Bridle on the occasion of the publication of his new book.

Ian Cheng: Emissaries

Ian Cheng: Emissaries

Serpentine Gallery 24 Apr — 28 May 2018

Ian Cheng's trilogy of simulations Emissaries (2015-17) came to the Serpentine in the second half of his two-part exhibition.

Film with Sondra Perry

Sondra Perry: Typhoon coming on

Serpentine North Gallery 6 Mar — 20 May 2018

Sondra Perry constructs multifaceted narratives that explore the imagining, or imaging, of blackness throughout history.

Portraits with BOB

Portraits with BOB

Serpentine Gallery 11 Mar & 28 Apr 2018

Visitors to the Ian Cheng exhibition could have their portrait drawn with BOB.

Ian Cheng: BOB

Serpentine Gallery 6 Mar — 22 Apr 2018

Ian Cheng populated the Serpentine with artificial life in a two-part exhibition, starting with BOB and continued with Emissaries.

Ian Cheng in conversation with Nora Khan and Ben Vickers

Ian Cheng in conversation with Nora Khan and Ben Vickers

Serpentine Gallery 6 Mar 2018

Artist Ian Chen joins writer Nora Khan and Serpentine Galleries CTO Ben Vickers to discuss his exhibition.

GUEST, GHOST, HOST: MACHINE! Marathon

GUEST, GHOST, HOST: MACHINE! Marathon

Offsite 7 Oct 2017

Considering the advent of AI, consciousness, interspecies cooperation, trans-humanism and non-linear time.

Zaha Hadid: Virtual Reality Experiences

Zaha Hadid: Virtual Reality Experiences

Serpentine Sackler Gallery 8 December 2016 — 12 February 2017

On the occasion of the exhibition Zaha Hadid: Early Paintings and Drawings a series of experimental virtual reality experiences were specially developed with Za...

Simon Denny: Products for Organising

Simon Denny: Products for Organising

Serpentine North Gallery 25 November 2015 — 14 February 2016

Simon Denny works with sculptural installations that include print, graphics, moving images and texts.

Culturehacking: A Panel with Simon Denny, Heba Amin, Ryan Gallagher and Brett Scott, in conversation with Charlotte Higgins

Culturehacking: A Panel with Simon Denny, Heba Amin, Ryan Gallagher and Brett Scott, in conversation with Charlotte Higgins

Offsite 28 Jan 2016

Simon Denny discussed networks, power, revolution and surveillance with Heba Y. Amin, Ryan Gallagher and Brett Scott.

An Evening on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

An Evening on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Offsite 19 Mar 2015

Artists, architects, researchers and filmmakers explore global infrastructure and the movement of people, things and information.

Gustav Metzger: Mass Media: todayandyesterday.co.uk

Gustav Metzger: Mass Media: todayandyesterday.co.uk

Online Launched 18 October 2014

In autumn 2014 Serpentine Galleries commissioned Gustav Metzger's first digital work. Gustav Metzger’s first digital work Mass Media: todayandyesterday...

Ed Atkins: www.80072745

Ed Atkins: www.80072745

Online 20 Oct 2014

Serpentine Galleries commissioned a digital work by Ed Atkins in autumn 2014 that saw the artist begin a decade of personal exchanges. As part of Ed Atkin...

Extinct.ly

Online 18–19 Oct 2014

EXTINCT.LY is a digital platform created to host the work of artists, writers, speculative designers and programmers exploring the subject of extinction. E...

89plus CLUBHOUSE

89plus CLUBHOUSE

Serpentine Sackler Gallery 18 Oct 2013

The 89plus CLUBHOUSE was an online platform built to facilitate digital participation in the Serpentine Marathon in 2013 and give form to a highly distributed c...