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
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
Computational Humanities Research Group
Computational Humanities research group
Centre for Data Futures
Bringing together interdisciplinary experts to focus on participatory infrastructure throughout the life of data-reliant tools.
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.
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...
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
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
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 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.
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...
Contact Tracing Apps: Should we embrace Surveillance?
An extract from a long read about the risk of Covid19 contact tracing apps normalising surveillance.
Events
Art x AI: Collective Intelligence, Collective Governance
How Art Productions Prototype New Ways of Collaboration with AI.
Please note: this event has passed.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Computational Humanities Research Group
Computational Humanities research group
Centre for Data Futures
Bringing together interdisciplinary experts to focus on participatory infrastructure throughout the life of data-reliant tools.
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.
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...
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
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
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 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.
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...
Contact Tracing Apps: Should we embrace Surveillance?
An extract from a long read about the risk of Covid19 contact tracing apps normalising surveillance.
Events
Art x AI: Collective Intelligence, Collective Governance
How Art Productions Prototype New Ways of Collaboration with AI.
Please note: this event has passed.
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.
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.
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.
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.