Joel McKim is a V&A research fellow and director of the Vasari Research Centre for Art & Technology at Birkbeck, University of London.

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The Doors (video still detail; 2019), Zach Blas.

How a small German city became a leading home for new media art

The Edith-Russ-Haus in Oldenburg is currently host to an exhibition exploring the rise of ‘nootropics’, or smart drugs, in Silicon Valley

10 Dec 2019
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Installation view of ‘Kate Crawford, Trevor Paglen: Training Humans’ at Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2019. Shown are images from the ImageNet training set.

Trevor Paglen trains his sights on the rise of machine vision

What are the implications of using object recognition technology to classify human faces and emotions?

17 Oct 2019

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A legal guide to the new anti-money laundering rules in the UK

The 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive has passed into UK law. What impact will it have on the British art market?

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The first prosecution for destroying cultural heritage at the ICC has led some critics to ask if war crimes against people should come first

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