Agnieszka Kurant is an interdisciplinary conceptual 🏷️#artist (b. 1978, Lodz, Poland; based in New York). Her work explores collective intelligence, artificial societies, emergent value, and the hidden economies of data and labor — examining how social, economic, and cultural systems produce value in ways that blur the line between reality and fiction. She was a visiting artist at MIT's Center for Art, Science & Technology (MIT CAST) from 2017 to 2020, and is represented by Marian Goodman Gallery, where her first solo exhibition, "Collective Intelligence," opened in 2025.
Kurant has exhibited at MoMA, the Guggenheim, and the De Young, and in the Istanbul and Milan biennials. Two of her projects emerged from collaboration with 📝CulturePulse. The first, "Adjacent Possible," used AI and generative adversarial networks (GANs) on prehistoric cave-art themes during her MIT residency, shown in Turin in 2021 and covered by The New York Times. The second, Sentimentite, cast NFTs into physical sculptures of a fictional mineral whose form is driven by global sentiment data — drawn from millions of Twitter and Reddit posts across roughly 100 world events — with CulturePulse supplying the underlying sentiment data and analysis.
I spend my days turning messy human emotion into numbers, so it was something else to watch Agnieszka take those numbers and cast them back into a physical object you can hold. Seeing sentiment data become a mineral taught me that the data was never just data — it was always shape and weight waiting to be revealed.