The Centre for Art and Digitality – CKD is a practice-based environment at the Royal Institute of Art (Kungl. Konsthögskolan) that, at an advanced level, investigates the cultural and societal implications of digitality. Through artistic practices, contemporary technologies are examined – particularly the acceleration of AI and how its use challenges prevailing political, ethical, and aesthetic values.
Under the project title Innovationslaboratorium (Innovation Laboratory), with support from the Jacob Wallenberg Foundation, CKD has during 2025 further developed a research-oriented workshop environment in which students and teachers can work with digital technologies, critically examine, and process the field within an expanded artistic context. Machines and software have been updated, further training of teachers takes place, and study trips and network-building activities are carried out continuously.
The centre is primarily driven by the 3D and 4D fields. Through the 3D field’s workshops for sculpture, mechatronics, and digital 3D technologies, and the 4D field’s workshops for photography, film, video, and new time-based XR technologies, we create conditions for cross-disciplinary artistic work and experimentation.
Throughout the year, practical courses, lectures, and pop-up workshops are carried out with the aim of illuminating and practically investigating the field of knowledge. A project-oriented course runs during 2025/2026 for bachelor’s and master’s students who wish to develop experimental projects. The course concludes with an exhibition of the projects in autumn 2026.
Education and artistic research at KKH are at the forefront when it comes to how new media and technologies affect and inspire artistic practice. This focus has a deep history at the institution through pioneering projects such as, for example, the College for Art and New Media in the early 2000s. Since 2025, CKD continues this exploration of the current technological and artistic condition.
Working Group for CKD:
- Åsa Andersson Broms (4D)
- Martin Christensen (3D)
- Andreas Hammar (3D)
- Jennifer Rainsford (4D)
Professors affiliated with CKD:
- Johanna Gustafsson Fürst (3D)
- Asier Mendizabal (3D)
- Blaise Kirschner (4D)
- Tris Vonna Michell (4D)
Project Manager, Innovationslaboratorium:
- Agneta Linton, Head of Department