OpenLAB 2026 | Automated Romantic Guidance: Rendering your Future Soulmate – Live podcast by GIRL EMPLOYEE

HTML Hide Through Model Lies uses the internet as a narrative architectural medium, built through interfaces and software that continuously construct perception and reality. The experiment questions how computational realism reshapes our understanding of the world, spatialising information through the web as a dimensionless yet deep and branched site. 

Extending spatial thinking into the internal structure of webpages, Lucia Rebolino turns HTML – the structure of each webpage living on the internet – into the medium for a visual essay, a form of web cartography and choreography through which she unpacks computational models, from climate simulations to AI world models, almost like origami. 

As violence and conflict in the digital age often unfold computationally before materialising spatially, she inverts the forensic gaze from physical toward digital space, asking how these computational environments can be choreographed to render visible the conflicts embedded within them. The lecture itself becomes a performative medium, opening datasets as forms of public science and asking what the models behind our screens hide from us. 

This activity is part of the OpenLAB The Mechanics of Truth festival.

Info

Date: Friday, November 27, 7:45pm. 
Place: Nave Una in Matadero Madrid.
Language: English with simultaneous translation in Spanish. 
Price: Free, no registration required. 

About GIRL EMPLOYEE

GIRL EMPLOYEE (2023→) is a podcast series created by Carmen Lael Hines and Morgane Billuart to discuss platform capitalism and visual culture with women technology researchers.  

carmenlaelhines.com 
morganebilluart.com