Metahaven’s work between design, filmmaking, textile, installation, and writing has been thoroughly linked with the internet and its geopolitics, pairing research with experimental, exuberant aesthetics.

The collective, founded in 2007 by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden, in recent years has been focusing on the foundational role of poetry in both its cinematic and visual, but also its literary and cognitive senses.

Their recent work uses poetry to form a linkage between art and science, like in the film work “Capture” (2022-), or as a way to question the mapping between language and feeling, like in “The Feeling Sonnets (Transitional Object)” (2024). This film is based on a poetry collection by Eugene Ostashevsky. Metahaven recently co-authored “Latent Spacecraft: Brains, GANs, Finnegans” (2026) with Nina Beguš, Gašper Beguš, and Riccardo Petrini.

This project combines an exploration of the unobserved vector space of neural network language models with a reinterpretation of James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake.” Metahaven’s work is in several international museum and private collections, including the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Sharjah Art Foundation, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Victoria & Albert Museum, M HKA, and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Metahaven are artistic advisors at Rijksakademie and heads of department at the Geo-Design MA at DAE.