OpenLAB 2026 | HTML Hide Through Model Lies - Talk by Lucia Rebolino

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: Thursday, November 26, 7:45pm. 
Place: Nave Una in Matadero Madrid.
Language: English with simultaneous translation in Spanish.
Price: Free, no registration required.

About Lucia Rebolino

Lucia Rebolino is an artist, architect and computational designer weaving science and art into counter-cartography, data and web-based aesthetics. A researcher with Forensic Architecture in London, she focuses on environmental justice investigations, and is a 2026 artist-in-residence in the –1 digital culture department of the Nieuwe Instituut. Her work on prediction and climate models has featured in e-flux and been exhibited at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale and at Medialab Matadero. She has lectured at MoMA, Columbia University, the Royal College of Art and ETH Zurich. 

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