processing… is an archive display drawing on more than a decade of Serpentine's Arts Technologies programme, featuring a website intervention by Artdao with writer Henry Bruce-Jones and Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley's digital game I Didn't Realise You Thought Like That (2026), alongside archival material from earlier commissions including Cecile B. Evans' AGNES (2014), Ian Cheng's BOB and Emissaries (2018), and Gabriel Massan's Third World: The Bottom Dimension (2023).
The display is curated by Tamar Clarke-Brown, Arts Technologies Curator, with Vi Trinh, Assistant Arts Technologies Curator, and Tara Tierney, Digital Archivist, and marks the first public programme of Activating Serpentine's Archive, an initiative supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.Serpentine's Arts Technologies department, founded by Ben Vickers in 2013, works across artificial intelligence, blockchain, and game engines, a remit now led by Eva Jager, Arts Technologies Curator and Creative AI Lead.
"For over a decade, Serpentine has worked at the frontier of art and advanced technologies, not only exhibiting this work but pioneering how institutions, artists and society engage with it. processing... reflects on the achievements of this innovative research. As these technologies reshape culture and civic life, understanding where we have been has never been more important to imagining where we go next. This display is both a reflection and a beginning: we will soon announce a new initiative to support the artists defining this field's future," said Bettina Korek, CEO, Serpentine, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine.
