Mongrel is an artist led organisation currently based in Southend-on-Sea. Activities include making art, researching, building speculative software, publishing texts, running workshops, collaborative work and facilitating the work of others.

Mongrel is an artist-led organisation currently based in Southend-on-Sea. Activities include making art, researching, building speculative software, publishing texts, running workshops, collaborative work and facilitating the work of others. Artistic activities explore the expressive and critical potential of software and information networks.

The Mongrel group has won numerous awards including the ICA London's Imaginaria award and the Clarks Digital Bursary. They are best known for the National Heritage and Natural Selection projects which explored racialisation and new media. It is closely associated with the formation of social software and software art through its development of Linker, HeritageGold and BlackLash. Mongrel recently worked with the Waag Society and Imagine IC to construct Nine(9) - a collaborative online engine celebrating the lives of those locked out of the cultural mainstream, which has so far been used to produce over 42 workshops with 378 participants.