Why has it become so much easier and, simultaneously, so much harder to believe what we see? Medialab invites you to an exhitibion with site-specific artworks showcasing the research of a new generation of artists around the technocultural mechanisms that redefine what we used to call “the real”. Opening times Opening and exhibition visit with the curator Bani Brusadin and the participant artists: Thursday, October 15, 7pm (doors open from 6:30pm) Tuesday to Thursday, from 5pm to 9pm Friday to Sunday (and holidays), from 12pm to 9pm Schedule of guided visits with the exhibition curator, Bani Brusadin Sunday, October 18, from 12:30pm to 1pm. Saturday, November 21st, from 12:30pm to 1pm. Saturday, November 28, from 12:30pm to 1pm. Sunday, December 13, from 12:30pm to 1pm. To join the visit, please turn up 15 minutes before it starts at Matadero Information desk (Paseo de la Chopera, 14). Why has it become...

Our devices—the phone in your hand, the laptop on your lap—make us passengers of our own lives. We're not the driver. The driver seems asleep at the wheel. We watch videos of the crash of history, in slow motion, as it happens. The revolution was not televised, but the collapse surfaces through the portals of our devices. What then are the possibilities for the collective creation of another media for another life? Maybe part of it is to address firstly the relationship of two procedures of communication: let's call them ficting and facting. These are not actually separate procedures. The attempt to stabilize a fact passes through fictions; the attempt to imagine a fiction is always entangled in facts. Once we have a concept of ficting and facting procedures, we can start to think about how to build communicative circuits in which the vector of communication is the means to...