Critical Climate Computing: Salon #1 | 18 Jun 2026

UAL’s Critical Climate Computing group brought together artists and audiences for an evening of talks, films, art and performances exploring computational art, technology and the climate crisis.

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UAL’s Critical Climate Computing group hosted an evening of talks, films, art and performances exploring computational art in the age of technological and climate crises.

The programme featured a talk with Superflux’s Anab Jain, an installation by Shinji Toya, a film screening with Nella Piatek, and a performance of Lady Ludd by Sophie Huckfield, followed by a panel discussion with the artists.

The evening concluded with an afterparty in the space, with refreshments and an opportunity for guests to meet, discuss and scheme with like-minded people in the private patio space.

The Critical Climate Computing (3C) group approached the climate crisis as a hyperobject that intersected with many forms of disempowerment and injustice around the world. The group explored a wide range of social, racial and economic injustices in relation to the climatic, taking an interdisciplinary approach that connected climate and technology with fields including decolonialism, critical technology studies, critical race studies and algorithmic justice.

The group’s work focused on carbon and technological literacy around computational systems and their uses, promoting approaches within arts and design practice that modified, hacked or employed these tools in ways that reduced consumption, minimised waste and engaged with their hidden functionalities. Through this work, the group sought to propose mindful and critically reflexive engagements with computational technologies, working both within and outside academia with students, communities, publics, and arts and culture organisations.