Mercedes Bunz

Professor of Digital Culture and Society at the King's College, London, art historian, philosopher, and journalist, Mercedes Bunz studied Philosophy, History of Art, and Information Sciences at the Free University of Berlin and the Bauhaus University of Weimar. Motivated by deep curiosity about digital technology, she wrote her thesis on the history of Internet, a field in constant transformation which has continued to interest to the present day. Her current research is concerned with creative artificial intelligence and machine learning systems. She is co-director of the Creative AI Lab, in which King’s College works with the Serpentine Gallery in London. She has published several books and articles, notable amongst which are the collected essays, La utopia de la copia: el pop como irritación (The Utopia of the Copy: Pop As irritation, Interzona Editora, 2008) and the essay The silent revolution: How digitalization transforms knowledge, work, journalism, and politics without making too much noise (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014; in Spanish, La revolución silenciosa: Como los algoritmos transforman el conocimiento, el trabajo, la opción pública i la política sin hacer mucho ruido, Vestales, 2017; published in German in 2012).