What do a 17th-century automaton and a robot in an advanced logistics centre have in common? The public research project El Gesto Digital by Andrea Muniáin and Paula Ramos Mollá, currently in residence at Medialab as part of the Investigación Situada...

The workshop is an introduction to the visual literacy methods necessary for tackling the topic of visual misinformation. Drawing on her experience as an artist, 3D designer, and forensic researcher, Martyna Marciniak introduces the participants to a...

Repair Café Madrid is a weekly meeting to repair small everyday objects and learn to look at them in a more sustainable way. Neighbors can learn how to repair their broken appliances with the help of handyman and accompanied by a coffee. It also has...

Estudio de Sistemas (Study of Systems) is a new program from Medialab that addresses the functioning of complex technological infrastructures and their material, social, and cultural effects from diverse perspectives. In this series of activities, we...

LOVESCAM is a performance in two parts. The first, BUTCHERING, is a two-week Telegram Performance that unfolds in real-time across Telegram's encrypted channels. Participants unknowingly enter a pig-butchering operation where their desires become the...

“The screen before you unfolds the Empire: the feed. Excitedly, the algorithm shows you the edifice it has built, brick by brick. Shingeki no Kyojin, the end of the world, motivational edits with quotes by Marcus Aurelius, jawline-strengthening...

What if off-grid communication was not the last resort, but the first choice? What if it could circulate as effortlessly as any everyday accessory? 868labs invites participants to a speculative workshop that reimagines communication beyond...

“There is no single technique, but multiple cosmotechniques” Inspired by the thought of Yuk Hui, Cosmotécnicas proposes an encounter between the many technological existences that coexist through music, performance, and the visual arts. The proposal...

Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo's Exocapitalism: Economies with Absolutely No Limits has been praised as an "era-defining book, a book that carries an idea with the potential resonance of Bratton's The Stack or Hardt & Negri's Empire" (New...

Jankspace is the grotesque and hollow realm of technocapitalist networks — the residue spilling out of the digital megastructure as it digests the material world and turns it into hallucinogenic sludge. It is the Uber driver’s chaotically wired...

Set in a speculative Havana infused with the crypto culture of the 2030s, Oracle Index is an expanded cinematic narrative in the form of an imaginary ethnography. It envisions a Cuba that, under intense geopolitical pressure, adopts “futarchy” —a...

Lyndsey Walsh proposes to examine the history, present, and potential futures of reproductive technologies and so-called reproductive organs, while challenging the doomed narrative of “breeding” that has condemned many and cost countless lives...