Amaia Sánchez-Velasco and Jorge Valiente Oriol are members of GRANDEZA STUDIO, an art and architecture collective co-directed since 2011 together with Gonzalo Valiente Oriol. Their work intertwines research, creative practice and pedagogy, and has...
Anna Engelhardt is an alias of a research-based artist and writer. Interested in information wars, she works with the tension between evidence and fiction, looking into subjects from synthetic media to military cybernetics. Engelhardt has shown her...
Bani Brusadin & Vladan Joler In the third episode of the Synthetic Minds podcast we talk with artist and researcher Vladan Joler about AI as a manifestation of power. Drawing insights from his recent project, Calculating Empires, Joler reflects on...
Bani Brusadin, Bogna Konior and Ed Keller will be the mentors of a collective program aimed at citizens from anywhere in the world interested in developing projects or the general public. Medialab Matadero kicks off LAB#03, its third speculative...
Distributed cognition, cybernetics, non-human intelligences, AGI, complex systems, alien semiotics... these are just some topics at the core of 'Synthetic Minds', the third speculative research and production laboratory developed by Medialab Matadero...
Citizen laboratories are a form of public institution in which people gather to create together. They are places for meeting, collaborating and experimenting in which anyone can take part, and which open up the possibility of improving living...
We open the call for proposals for our next Collaborative Prototyping Lab (CPL), an intensive two-week workshop coordinated by internationally renowned experts/artists to collectively develop initiatives related to the theme "The Metabolic Sublime"...
Energy sovereignty, human exclusion zones, automated landscapes, phantom extractivisms, territorial instrumentalization, residual circularity, decarbonization, geoengineering... are some of the topics we will address during LAB#02's Collaborative...
Confined to eyes and ears, to smell, taste and touch, the boundaries of human knowledge used to be directly related to the restrictions of the human body. Its limited range in time, space and frequency painted a rather shallow image of the world...
Sentient Media could be easily interpreted as a fancy way to refer to sensors. Or, more generally, as technologies that sense. But this would undervalue the beautiful ambiguity of the term. I suggest to embrace this ambiguity as an opportunity to...
In the notion of sentient media there is a way in and a way out. On the one hand there is the idea that a careful observation and detailed recording of certain processes (mineral, plant, atmospheric, oceanic, etc) can shed light on latent...