MÉTACONTEMPORAIN

15/10/2026

“Artists have been at the forefront of working with new technologies and art historians have led the way in understanding questions of representation, visual communication, and creativity. The critical and ethical understanding that art and art history can bring to AI is crucial, even as new technologies can make possible new methods of analysis and avenues of thinking.”

Lucy Bradnock, Dean for Research at the Courtauld Institute

We’re pleased to announce that the Courtauld has been awarded a grant that will enable researchers to pursue innovative projects at the intersection of AI and art history.

The Denise Coates Foundation Awards will enable the Courtauld to award research grants totalling £250,000 over five years to cross-disciplinary teams of advanced researchers at the Courtauld and King’s College London.

It builds on the 10-year strategic relationship between our institutions and cements a mutual commitment to path-breaking research that addresses urgent intellectual, cultural and societal challenges.

Read the story: courtauld.ac.uk/news-blogs/2026/courtauld-institute-awarded-major-grant-to-support-innovative-research-in-art-history-and-ai/

15/10/2026

Florian Germann: Twelve Lives at Kunstmuseum Appenzell.

12/10/2026

12/10/2026

Designed by artist Theo Triantafyllidis, the installation will feature an interactive spider sculpture.

08/10/2026

Neural [book review][Archive]
"The phrase “quantum mechanics” was coined in 1925, and after a century, the phenomenon of quantum computing is increasingly regarded as both a “next big thing” and one of the most difficult technologies to explain and..."
Concerning the Quantum in Art -Paul Thomas
Routledge
(review in the first comment)

04/10/2026

29/09/2026

🏆 We're honored to share that "Archiving Machines" and "The Patina of Distrust" are co-winners of this year's Best Information Science Book Award from ASIS&T!

Congratulations to authors Amelia Acker ("Archiving Machines"), Eugenia Mitchelstein, Pablo J. Boczkowski, María Celeste Wagner, and Facundo Suenzo.

Both titles are available . Learn more at the links below!

📖 Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553247/archiving-machines/

📖 The Patina of Distrust: What People Do with Misinformation: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262550765/the-patina-of-distrust/

20/09/2026

In 1960, the insides of thermostats, cameras, and clocks revealed how they worked. Today, their insides are indecipherable circuit boards. As psychologist Frank Keil notes, younger generations have been raised amid these opaque technologies and black-box AI systems and, as such, have lost direct access to causal understanding. How can we prepare children to find insights and cognitive agency in a world of ever-shrinking opportunities to learn how things work?

In "The Disappearance of Insight," Keil investigates how rapid technological change is shaping the world around us—and what this means for our children and their futures.

"A striking analysis of childhood and cognition in today’s technology-saturated world." — Tania Lombrozo, author of "Why We Ask Why"

Learn more: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262054140/the-disappearance-of-insight/

29/06/2026

ZKM | Karlsruhe presents Silver Egg: The Eros of Media Art, its major thematic exhibition of 2026.