AI, Curation and Cultural InfrastructuresFriday 13 November 2026, 17:00 – 18:45

Curating Superintelligences: A Reader on AI and Future Curating

  • Joasia KrysaProfessor of Exhibition Research; Director of the Institute of Art and Technology Liverpool John Moores University
  • Magdalena Tyżlik-CarverAssociate Professor of Digital Communication and Culture Aarhus University
  • Winnie SoonAssociate Professor of Art and Technology Slade School of Fine Art, UCL

Book presentation

This presentation introduces the newly published book Curating Superintelligences: A Reader on AI and Future Curating, a critical reflection at the intersection of computational technologies and the contemporary curatorial field. Published by Open Humanities Press, the book brings together 33 authors and 22 contributions, including essays, artistic and curatorial projects, case studies and research reports. Situating curating within broader discussions – from literary and computer science perspectives to the histories of computational curating – the book explores the convergence of AI and creative practices, new institutional infrastructures, emerging research areas and methods, and forms of curatorial practice that move beyond existing paradigms and fields of knowledge, The presentation offers an overview of the book by its co-editors, Joasia Krysa and Magdalena Tyżlik-Carver, with contributions from authors Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás, Tommie Introna and Winnie Soon.

Panel

AI, Curation and Cultural Infrastructures

Friday 13 November 2026, 17:00 – 18:45

Chair: Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás — UCL Computational Media Research

AI, Curation and Cultural Infrastructures examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping the conditions, practices, and infrastructures of contemporary cultural production and curatorial work. The panel brings together perspectives on the ways AI systems intervene in processes of selection, classification, interpretation, mediation, and knowledge production, while also asking how their underlying computational infrastructures transform cultural institutions themselves. Rather than approaching AI simply as a new curatorial tool, the panel considers the material, political, and epistemological conditions through which these technologies operate, including data, platforms, labour, energy, and systems of governance. It explores how curators and cultural producers might critically engage with AI while developing alternative forms of curatorial agency, institutional responsibility, and building the digital commons.

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