OPENLAB 2025 PROGRAMM The year-long program LAB 4 Weird Futures explored the technological imagination of instability — its power, its instrumentalization, and the possible alternatives hidden within its cracks and failures. In this final act...

This is a workshop for artists, designers, and filmmakers interested in the present and future of attention. Attention itself—and distraction in its many variations—seems to have evolved from a condition into a currency. What new tactics and...

Collapse of the Weave Function fits within one of the core themes of LAB 4 —“soft” science fiction— understood as poetic interventions in the technological fault lines of the present. The project will take shape through four works: the audiovisual...

The Weird Futures series showcases examples of fiction, video essays, documentary films, and nonfiction that explore problematic depictions of the present and the future, encompassing narratives of prediction and control, as well as uncanny scenarios...

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...

In video games, the term spawn is the act of reappearing or being reborn after death or destruction, usually after losing one of your lives. This act, which is repeated continuously during the game, can be understood as a ritual. Ana Esteve Reig...

Internet Core : Tiny mythologies is a tribal portal to a space of crossover, critical reflection and collective action around internet aesthetics and subcultures. In this two-day meeting, we will share experiences about cores that emerge as forms of...

In a context where atmospheric changes have become increasingly unpredictable and radical, weather forecasting is facing a crisis. This scientific discipline is rooted in a desire for control and a certainties grounded in mathematical models and...

On November 5 will be held in the Nave Una of Matadero Madrid a meeting with Red ACTS, the Network of Art, Science, Technology and Society, which will present several of the proposals in which this network of institutions has been working in recent...