Júlia Nueno Guitart is a researcher and computational designer. In her work, she reads algorithmic systems through the spaces they produce: tracing how short-term rental platforms quietly reorganise Barcelona's housing stock, building tools with...

Lucia Rebolino is an artist trained as an architect who later moved into computational design; though these trajectories never fully replaced one another, they merged to shape the research-based artistic practice she has today.

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.

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...

Alex M. F. Quicho is a writer and observer of the technological world, currently based in London. Alex is joining Medialab as faculty of the fourth LAB program, titled Weird Futures. We asked her to respond to the topics that we would like to tackle...

​​Joel Blanco is an artist, designer, researcher and consultant specialising in future scenarios, speculative design and design fiction. Joel is joining Medialab as faculty of the 4th LAB program, titled Weird Futures (read the White Paper to find...

In a context where narratives of stability, security and linear progress fade in the face of the increasing and deliberate production of volatility and its instrumentalisation, technological promises become instruments of world redesign. Literary...

Within the framework of Medialab Matadero's LAB#02 The Metabolic Sublime, which was held between 2022 and 2023, the meeting Nuclear Sessions. Radioactive Traces, organized by Agnès Villette and Fernando Cremades. The workshop brought together...

XenoVisual Studies (XVS) is an emerging network of artistic and critical experimentation that, throughout its first year, has been dedicated to exploring the frictions and fusions between the strange and the technological that transform the...