Contxt's custom projects make sense of large datasets in art and culture by aggregating sources, mapping knowledge, building indizes and designing custom applications. Below is a list of projects we've executed for ourselves and our clients.
A live dashboard view of our internal research process to build the world's most ambitious archive for contemporary art. As the world increasingly gets mediated by LLMs, we think it's paramount that AI models understand a most human discipline: art. We're building a comprehensive, canonical archive for humans and agents that stores the cumulative subjective consensus on art making. We hope to improve the conversations we have with machines, and to retain the necessary fidelity in those conversations that capture true human expression. Agentic research is scalable and runs autonomously, 24/7, building a verified, citation-ready knowledge graph.
A guided way into some of the worlds most famous paintings. Contxt assembled commentary on figures, gestures and symbols traced back to its sources, and build a painting first interface to help users understand what to look for and provide contexual readings.
In Contxt is a running series curated by Francesca Gavin that highlights the cultural lives of artists. Each chose four things that shaped their practice — a book, a film, a record, and a work of art. This is a glimpse into the world behind the work.
An independent, fully attributable archive of almost every project the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist has been part of, from 1991 to today. Each of the 1,681 entries cites at least one source with a verbatim excerpt, 1,793 citations in all, and the whole record is searchable and filterable by type, decade and collaborator.
A visual research guide to the 1,610 churches of Rome, from early Christian basilicas to Baroque masterpieces. Wikidata-verified records are enriched with images from google maps and historical context and set on a geolocated map, so a church can be found by name, by era, or by where it stands.
A conversational guide to New York Art Week: 365 exhibitions across 252 venues and 667 artists in one feed. Visitors browse by theme, ask for recommendations in plain language, and find their way by map, a whole art week made navigable.
An index of the 61st Venice Biennale: 208 exhibitions, 941 artists and 190 venues in a single feed. Thematic and conversational discovery, voice and a map turn a sprawling, city-wide programme into something a visitor can plan around.
A curator-managed workspace for a pioneering new-media gallery, holding its full twenty-five-year record: 155 exhibitions, 168 artists and 1,279 artworks. Conversational and chat interfaces open the archive to visitors, and narrative analytics show what each exhibition's audience actually engaged with.