- 2 to 4 July 2025
- Paul Mellon Centre and Online
What is Research Now? presents a full year of programming around interconnected strands that ask us to think more curiously, critically and open-endedly about the role and practice of the arts.
The theme is led by the question: Can research in the arts enable us to live and better inhabit the world together? It will bring artists, curators, writers, scholars, and thinkers from a range of different backgrounds to think together through lectures, performances, conversations, and hands-on workshops at the Paul Mellon Centre in London.
In July, we will explore three interconnected strands:
Artificial Futures is about art and AI in relation to how we work, our relationship with alterable histories and realities, and the ethics (environmental, social, emotional) of our collective artificial futures.
Artists on Research features a series of conversations with artists reflecting on research-based practice.
Seeing in the Dark asks how the acts of seeing and looking must go beyond the visible world as we grapple with our entangled colonial and capitalist presents.
All Day Events: Reading Room and Installation
Drop in to browse and read books related to the strands and interact with The Horizon, an installation by Wesley Goatley.
The Horizon represents a glimpse into a possible near-future of post-abundance computation that also shows us how to better use the tools we have today.
It is a device from a future where resource scarcity, climate change, and the related political fallouts have highly limited data center and cloud computing resources to industrial, governmental, and military sectors, and everyday people must make do without some of ‘magic’ technologies they used to take for granted.