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Still from forthcoming ML/AI Interfaces Tutorial Series, 2020. Image courtesy of Trust, Berlin
From future plant life to AI divination, explore how Serpentine’s Arts Technologies and artists work with AI. Discover cutting-edge research and experimental projects into art and technology.
Our commissions, research reports, interviews, and live streams consider the role technology plays in society.
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Future Art Ecosystems 4: Art x Public AI
Online19 March 2024, 7pmFreeLivestream: Closed Captions
A presentation of Future Art Ecosystems 4 (FAE4) – Serpentine Arts Technologies’ annual strategic briefing.
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Creative AI Lab
Online9 Jul 2020 – Ongoing
A research programme for cultural institutions, artists, engineers, and researchers with an interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).
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Beyond Cultures of Ownership: Emerging Strategies for Interdependence
OffsiteFriday 3 November 2023, 9am - 8pmFree
A day-long gathering to explore and strategise how art and culture can play an active part in reconfiguring ownership.
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Jenna Sutela: I Magma (App)
Online2 Oct 2019 – ongoingFree
This comprises an app for mobile devices which can be downloaded and experienced anywhere, and an exhibition in Stockholm.
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Hito Steyerl: Actual Reality OS
Online11 April 2019 — 31 January 2020Free
Visitors were prompted to view an app that uses augmented reality to show ActualRealityOS.
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ExhibitionsExhibitions
Ian Cheng: BOB
Serpentine South Gallery6 Mar — 22 Apr 2018Free
Ian Cheng populated the Serpentine with artificial life in a two-part exhibition, starting with BOB and continued with Emissaries.
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Ian Cheng: Emissaries
Serpentine South Gallery24 Apr — 28 May 2018Free
Ian Cheng's trilogy of simulations Emissaries (2015-17) came to the Serpentine in the second half of his two-part exhibition.
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James Bridle: Cloud Index
Online29 Sep 2016 – ongoingFree
Cloud Index explores the connections between climate, behaviour and networks.
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AGNES
Online6 February 2014 — 31 May 2019Free
The first in a series of digital commissions by Cécile B. Evans, coinciding with the launch of the 2014 Serpentine website.
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Legal Lab
OnlineSeptember 2019 - ongoing
Exploring how the law can better support collaborations across art, science and technology
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Hito Steyerl: Power Plants
Serpentine North Gallery11 Apr — 6 May 2019Free
Steyerl's work explores the complexities of the digital world, art, capitalism and the implications of Artificial Intelligence for society.
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Pierre Huyghe: UUmwelt
Serpentine South Gallery3 October 2018 — 10 February 2019Free
The exhibition was changed irrevocably and unpredictably over the course of the time in which it existed.
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A Cephalopod ↔ Machine Encounter
Online11 Oct 2021FreeBSL InterpretedClosed Captions
How can an octopus, in an encounter with artificial intelligence, transform our understanding of technological development?
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In Focus
Everything I Say Is True: Poetic Bibliography
23 Apr 2021
Performance artist Kite uses family ephemera and historical documents to consider truth in relation to Oglála Lakȟóta knowledge systems.
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Interview
Luba Elliott on the Emergence of the Creative AI Field
9 Jul 2020
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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Interview
A Different Research Agenda: Julia Kaganskiy Introduces the Creative AI Lab
9 Jul 2020
Over the past few years, artificial intelligence (AI) has captivated the imagination of the art world.
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Aesthetics of new AI—Panel Discussion
Online9 Oct 2020Price: Free
A panel discussion on machine learning and its aesthetic capacity with Mercedes Bunz, Leif Weatherby, Nora Khan & Joanna Zylinska.
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Aesthetics of New AI Interfaces—Panel Discussion
Online12 Feb 2021Price: Free
A panel discussion on machine learning and its art-making interfaces with Christian Ulrik Andersen, Agnes Cameron and Rebecca Fiebrink
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Tactical Entanglements: Creative AI Lab in conversation with Martin Zeilinger
Online15 Nov 2021Free
Join us online for a discussion around the impact of artificial intelligence on human-centered notions of creative agency, authorship and ownership.
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Online5 May 2021FreeOpen Captions
Follow the artist through the software interfaces that shape their work
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Ian Cheng in conversation with Nora Khan and Ben Vickers
Serpentine South Gallery6 Mar 2018Free
Artist Ian Chen joins writer Nora Khan and Serpentine Galleries CTO Ben Vickers to discuss his exhibition.
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New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future: James Bridle in conversation with Ben Vickers
Offsite28 Jun 2018Free
An evening with artist and writer James Bridle on the occasion of the publication of his new book.
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dmstfctn: Godmode Epochs
OnlineTuesday 18 April 2023, 7pm GMTFreeClosed Captions
Serpentine Arts Technologies invites you to participate in a live play-through and discussion of Godmode Epochs: a multiplayer, AI-training game by artist duo, dmstfctn.
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Partnerships
The Arts Technologies programme of commissioning, creative R&D and strategy develops long-term partnerships and collaborations to make this work possible.
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