This summer, Serpentine’s Education Space becomes an open and evolving archive of our work at the intersection of art and advanced technologies. Part library, part listening room, part research space, we invite visitors to gather, browse, sit, read, listen, work, and add to the space alongside us.
“Deliberately open-ended, cross-disciplinary Creative R&D environments… have an important role to play in social transformation.” (Future Art Ecosystems 5; Creative R&D)
Made possible through support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, processing… marks a significant moment in the preservation and activation of Serpentine’s pioneering work at the intersection of art and advanced technologies. Here, advanced technologies refers to both emerging and established technologies that may be familiar to many, but whose long-term cultural and societal implications are still largely unknown, including blockchain, artificial intelligence and game engines. The display brings together audio recordings, photographs, publications, digital commissions, and other materials relating to art and advanced technologies at Serpentine. Through collaborations with interdisciplinary practitioners, Serpentine explores how technological systems can become tools for critical inquiry, collective imagination and worldbuilding.
processing… takes its name from the message shown during an in-progress computation. It reflects the ongoing, evolving nature of Serpentine’s work with art and advanced technologies. Over time and through its now-dedicated department, Arts Technologies, Serpentine produces resources, alternative models, prototypes, governance design, infrastructural experiments, and tools for systemic change. Across these materials runs a shared commitment to worldbuilding and critical inquiry.
Honouring this spirit, processing… is an active archive, constantly updating with the addition of new, audience-generated materials. Here, you can discover how Serpentine supports work that anticipates and shapes emerging cultural and technological futures. In opening up the archive, resurfacing and recirculating selected materials from across the years, we invite you to gather, browse, sit, read, listen, work, and add to the space alongside us while we continue to process…
processing… with other projects
processing… is the first public programme in Activating Serpentine’s Archive, an ongoing initiative supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Dedicated to preserving and sharing Serpentine’s archive and institutional memory, the initiative enables new modes of audience access and future-oriented research, and keeps the archive open to new questions.
Opening Hours
Monday 12-6pm
Tuesday-Friday 10am-6pm
Saturday-Sunday 10am-7pm
Entry
processing… is open to walk-up visitors. No advanced booking required.
Access
Wheelchair access is through the Cecily Brown: Picture Making exhibition at Serpentine South. Please ask a gallery host for assistance.
Biography & Credits
Serpentine Arts Technologies places art at the forefront of the technological innovation shaping our world. For over a decade, the department has championed artist-led experimentation through groundbreaking commissions, experimental cultural projects, and research. By bringing artists and audiences together, it explores how advanced technologies can become tools for new possibilities. Operating as both a studio and a research lab, Arts Technologies’ production-led model enables artists, curators, producers, researchers, strategists, and technologists to experiment with emerging systems as pathways for worldbuilding and critical inquiry. Working with technology in real time, the department asks and tests the urgent questions of our era.
processing… is curated by Tamar Clarke-Brown, Arts Technologies Curator, with Vi Trinh, Assistant Arts Technologies Curator, and Tara Tierney, Digital Archivist.
Additional support from Tommie Introna, Arts Technologies R&D Platform Producer, and Elly Simpson and Cosmo Reindorf, Archive Cataloguers.
Exhibition production led by Isobel Peyton Jones, Arts Technologies Producer, and Richard Install, Head of Production.
Thanks to Serpentine Arts Technologies team past and present;
Ben Vickers, Arts Technologies Founder and Serpentine CTO, 2013-20
Sophie Netchaef, Strategic Projects Manager, 2018-20
Victoria Ivanova, Head of Arts Technologies Innovation and Future Art Ecosystems 2018-26
Alex Boyes, Arts Technologies Producer, 2019-23
Róisín McVeigh, Associate Arts Technologies Producer, 2022-23
Website intervention by Artdao
Receipt poems by Henry Bruce Jones
Fabrication by Whitewall
Exhibition build by Beyond Surface
Technician: Kenji Takahashi
Lighting by Richard Install
Design identity by Roxy Zeiher
Video production by Ralph Pritchard
Serpentine Arts Technologies Team, 2026
Kay Watson, Head of Arts Technologies
Eva Jäger, Arts Technologies Curator and Creative AI Lead
Tamar Clarke-Brown, Arts Technologies Curator
Vi Trinh, Assistant Arts Technologies Curator
Tommie Introna, R&D Platform Producer
Ruth Waters, Arts Technologies Producer
Tsige Tafesse, Arts Technologies Producer, FAE Fellowship
Isobel Peyton Jones, Arts Technologies Producer
Serpentine Digital Archive Team (part of Arts Technologies)
Tara Tierney, Digital Archivist
Thomas Gregson, Digital Preservation Systems Technician
Elly Simpson, Archive Cataloguer
Cosmo Reindorf, Archive Cataloguer
