Medialab-Matadero Madrid
LAB 4 WHITE PAPER
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 visions of cyberpunk become strategic plans. Dystopias become business models.
LAB 4 Weird Futures is an invitation to explore some of the material and symbolic vectors that, by invoking possible futures, are actively contributing to redefining the foundations of contemporary society. Through the observation of extreme cases, strange technological narratives and radical alternatives, our aim is to understand the mutations of technological power that coagulate around the dilemma of control vs. chaos and an extravagant and monstrous concept: teslaforming.
You can read more about this concept and the themes of LAB 4 in the presentation text.