Sophie Publig is a Senior Scientist, lecturer, and internet archaeologist based at the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures, University of Applied Arts Vienna. She is joining Medialab Matadero as a mentor of the LAB 5 The Mechanics of Truth program...
Why has it become so much easier and, simultaneously, so much harder to believe what we see? The perception of the world has always been contested territory, but something has shifted. This is a working document — an attempt to name something that is...
Collapse of the Weave Function es la nueva exposición de Metahaven, el colectivo artístico con sede en Ámsterdam cuyo trabajo se mueve entre el cine, el diseño y la escritura, que estará entre el 6 y el 30 de noviembre en la Nave Una de Matadero...
As part of XVS CENTER II, a program curated by the collective XenoVisual Studies —current residents at Medialab— in collaboration with the publishing house Caja Negra, the lecture “Xenomorphosis: Laboratory of Alien Poetics and Politics” by writer...
In this webinar Mark Cinkevich (Belarus / Poland) introduces his proposal for the Collaborative Prototyping Lab: Navigating Militarized Urban Futures, an interactive prototype that explores urban spaces shaped by ubiquitous systems of algorithmic...
In this webinar Pablo Somonte Ruano introduces their proposal for the Collaborative Prototyping Lab: POCAS - Poca Organización Colaborativa de Auto-servicio, a research project and a LARP that uses economic sci-fi to imagine an autonomous mutualist...
In this webinar Noura Tafeche (Italy) introduces her proposal for the Collaborative Prototyping Lab: Iblīs dwells a Line, a dissection of NEOM's mega smart-city as an example of “performative urbanism” where hyper-stylized renderings operate as tools...
In this webinar Mac Andre Arboleda (Philippines) introduces their proposal for the Collaborative Prototyping Lab: The Institute of Alice Guo Studies (copy), a research and content production agency that, through the figure of former mayor and con...
In this webinar Gaara Collective introduces their proposal for the Collaborative Prototyping Lab: Ktown: Future Epistemologies in Intelogenesis, an experimental mod of the AI-powered video game Dwarf Fortress that evokes a speculative world in which...
Solveig Qu Suess is a filmmaker and researcher currently based in Shanghai. Her work explores how large-scale systems—whether energy grids, optical technologies, or planetary sensing networks—imprint themselves on intimate terrains. Her recent film...