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Mercedes Bunz

Dr Mercedes Bunz

Professor of Digital Culture and Society

Research interests

  • Digital

Biography

Mercedes is Professor of Digital Culture & Society, King's College London. Her research explores how digital technology transforms knowledge and with it power. She is a member of the Interdisciplinary Network for the Critical Humanities Terra Critica and co-founder of the Creative AI lab, a collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery.

Research Interest

For details, please see her full research profile.

Teaching

Mercedes teaches across a broad range of issues in digital culture and society from artificial intelligence studies to the politics of digital technologies.

Selected Publications

Bunz, M. (2025). ‘Thinking Through Generated Writing’, in H. Bajohr (ed.), Thinking with AI: Machine Learning the Humanities (pp. 58-84). Open Humanities Press. Download here.

Bunz, M. (2022). ‘How Not to Be Governed Like That by Our Digital Technologies’, in: The Ends of Critique: Methods, Institutions, Politics, edited by K. Thiele, B. Kaiser, T. O’Leary, 179-200. London: Rowman & Littlefield. Download here.

Aradau C. and M. Bunz (2022) 'Dismantling the apparatus of domination? Left critiques of AI', in: Radical Philosophy 2.12 (Spring). Download here.

Bunz, M. (2019). ‘The Calculation of Meaning: On the Misunderstanding of new Artificial Intelligence as Culture’. Culture, Theory and Critique. Download here.

Bunz, M. and G. Meikle, (2017) The Internet of Things, Cambridge, Polity Press.

    Research

    CDC header
    Centre for Digital Culture

    The Centre for Digital Culture at King’s College London is an interdisciplinary research centre promoting research and debate on digital culture

    Screenshot 2022-12-14 at 11.06.05
    Computational Humanities Research Group

    Computational Humanities research group

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    Centre for Data Futures

    Bringing together interdisciplinary experts to focus on participatory infrastructure throughout the life of data-reliant tools.

    Solar panel at sunset thumbnail
    Climate & sustainability researchers at King’s

    King's researchers working across climate and sustainability

    News

    Digital Futures Institute announces eleven new Fellows for 2025-26

    Eleven interdisciplinary projects awarded Fellowships from the Digital Futures Institute for the 2025-26 cohort.

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    Dr Mercedes Bunz awarded AHRC's BRAID Fellowship

    Dr Mercedes Bunz is one of 17 Fellows to partner with an organisation from the public, private or third sector to unite expertise for tackling existing, new...

    BRAID logo. Bridging Responsible AI Divides

    King's researchers comment on the outcomes of the UK AI Safety Summit

    Members of the King’s Institute for AI community share thoughts on the AI Safety Summit outcomes

    cartoon image of a person looking at an exclamation mark sign

    Science Gallery London announces 'Friday Lates' as part of autumn AI programme

    Dive further into the world of AI with performances, special events, a new exhibit and two opportunities for 'after hours' access

    Elsewhere-2

    Arts & Humanities projects in 'Bringing the Human to the Artificial' exhibition

    Two projects from the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Creative AI Lab and Neuromatic, are showcased in ‘Bringing the Human to the Artificial’ exhibition...

    The image shows 'Bringing the Human to the Artificial' exhibition panels.

    The Creative AI Lab

    Read about King's work how AI is used in creative fields, as featured in the Bringing the Human to the Artificial exhibition.

    MegaFace Creative AI Adam Harvey

    The Department of Digital Humanities and the Serpentine launch Creative AI Lab website

    On Thursday 9 July the Creative AI Lab launches its website presenting a database for software, research, theory and education at the intersection of art and...

    Credit: Still from forthcoming ML/AI Interfaces Tutorial Series, 2020. Image courtesy of Trust, Berlin and Ricardo Saavedra

    Contact Tracing Apps: Should we embrace Surveillance?

    An extract from a long read about the risk of Covid19 contact tracing apps normalising surveillance.

    Covid19 tracking apps

    Events

    24Oct

    Art x AI: Collective Intelligence, Collective Governance

    How Art Productions Prototype New Ways of Collaboration with AI.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    12Sep

    AI in the Street: prompts for debate

    Dive into the messy social reality of AI in the street and explore how this can inform the future development of AI with a panel of industry experts.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    10Jun

    Attending to Technology in a Time of Radical Change

    The Centre for Attention Studies at King’s College London invites you to a symposium on how we can attend to technology, cognitively and affectively, in the...

    Please note: this event has passed.

    11Oct

    AI on Film

    This event showcases two short films that explore AI, looking at how its machinic logic and technological creativity transform the creation of meaning.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    27Jan

    Creative AI: Theory and Practice

    Creative AI Lab host a one-day symposium on Creative AI supported by the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

    Please note: this event has passed.

      Research

      CDC header
      Centre for Digital Culture

      The Centre for Digital Culture at King’s College London is an interdisciplinary research centre promoting research and debate on digital culture

      Screenshot 2022-12-14 at 11.06.05
      Computational Humanities Research Group

      Computational Humanities research group

      3
      Centre for Data Futures

      Bringing together interdisciplinary experts to focus on participatory infrastructure throughout the life of data-reliant tools.

      Solar panel at sunset thumbnail
      Climate & sustainability researchers at King’s

      King's researchers working across climate and sustainability

      News

      Digital Futures Institute announces eleven new Fellows for 2025-26

      Eleven interdisciplinary projects awarded Fellowships from the Digital Futures Institute for the 2025-26 cohort.

      null

      Dr Mercedes Bunz awarded AHRC's BRAID Fellowship

      Dr Mercedes Bunz is one of 17 Fellows to partner with an organisation from the public, private or third sector to unite expertise for tackling existing, new...

      BRAID logo. Bridging Responsible AI Divides

      King's researchers comment on the outcomes of the UK AI Safety Summit

      Members of the King’s Institute for AI community share thoughts on the AI Safety Summit outcomes

      cartoon image of a person looking at an exclamation mark sign

      Science Gallery London announces 'Friday Lates' as part of autumn AI programme

      Dive further into the world of AI with performances, special events, a new exhibit and two opportunities for 'after hours' access

      Elsewhere-2

      Arts & Humanities projects in 'Bringing the Human to the Artificial' exhibition

      Two projects from the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Creative AI Lab and Neuromatic, are showcased in ‘Bringing the Human to the Artificial’ exhibition...

      The image shows 'Bringing the Human to the Artificial' exhibition panels.

      The Creative AI Lab

      Read about King's work how AI is used in creative fields, as featured in the Bringing the Human to the Artificial exhibition.

      MegaFace Creative AI Adam Harvey

      The Department of Digital Humanities and the Serpentine launch Creative AI Lab website

      On Thursday 9 July the Creative AI Lab launches its website presenting a database for software, research, theory and education at the intersection of art and...

      Credit: Still from forthcoming ML/AI Interfaces Tutorial Series, 2020. Image courtesy of Trust, Berlin and Ricardo Saavedra

      Contact Tracing Apps: Should we embrace Surveillance?

      An extract from a long read about the risk of Covid19 contact tracing apps normalising surveillance.

      Covid19 tracking apps

      Events

      24Oct

      Art x AI: Collective Intelligence, Collective Governance

      How Art Productions Prototype New Ways of Collaboration with AI.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      12Sep

      AI in the Street: prompts for debate

      Dive into the messy social reality of AI in the street and explore how this can inform the future development of AI with a panel of industry experts.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      10Jun

      Attending to Technology in a Time of Radical Change

      The Centre for Attention Studies at King’s College London invites you to a symposium on how we can attend to technology, cognitively and affectively, in the...

      Please note: this event has passed.

      11Oct

      AI on Film

      This event showcases two short films that explore AI, looking at how its machinic logic and technological creativity transform the creation of meaning.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      27Jan

      Creative AI: Theory and Practice

      Creative AI Lab host a one-day symposium on Creative AI supported by the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

      Please note: this event has passed.