The Hard Question of Art - Cognitive Futures

What is Art in the age of inequality, climate change and AI? From leading design group, Metahaven.

About the author

Metahaven are Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden, Their previous books include Uncorporate Identity
(2010), Can Jokes Bring Down Governments? (2013), Black Transparency (2015), and Digital
Tarkovsky (2018). Their films include, Chaos Theory (2021), Hometown (2018), and Information Skies
(2016), nominated for the European Film Awards 2017. True and Eternal Bliss (2022) and Capture (2022).

Metahaven has participated in solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, ICA, London, e-flux, New York, and State of Concept Athens, among others. Their work is in collections of the Sharjah Art Foundation, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, among others.

https://metahaven.net/

Product details

• Authors: Metahaven
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.02.2026
• EAN: 9781804291948
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-194-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Weight: 400 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theory of art, Artificial Intelligence, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / Art & Politics, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), Popular philosophy, Artificial Intelligence (AI)