Oracle Index is a generative cinema installation that imagines a future Cuba in which cryptocurrency, prediction markets, artificial intelligence, underground gambling, and divination become intertwined as systems for navigating economic uncertainty. The work begins from a speculative scenario. In the aftermath of a total embargo known on the island as La Opción Cero, the government turns to cryptocurrency and prediction markets to draw in hard currency and foreign capital. The Communist Party adopts Futarchy, a model of governance in which political institutions set collective goals while market speculators bet on which policies are most likely to reach them, with the blockchain supplying the transparency and resistance to manipulation the system requires. Locked out of the state-backed platform, ordinary Cubans build underground betting economies, trading derivatives of the official markets over illicit satellite links and repurposing government data streams as raw material for La Bolita, the island’s centuries-old numbers lottery. As...

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...