Alex M. F. Quicho, LAB 4 Weird Futures faculty

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 in the LAB 4, proposing them as starting points to inspire the kind of creative and critical research we would like to carry out this year, particularly during the Collaborative Prototyping Lab —which is to be held in November 2025 in Madrid. As an introduction, Alex wrote a short text that highlights some of the connections between her research into the “gore layer”, the idea of weird futures, and especially one tentative notion that we developed in the White Paper: the “teslaforming”. In the webinar / conversation below, Alex unpacks these ideas and expands on how to deal with speculation as a method, how to research contemporary technological violence, and how to turn the grotesque into a tactic for unconventional forms of expression and action. The webinar and the text have been commissioned by Medialab in May 2025.

READ THE TEXT HERE

Alex Quicho is a theorist and research director in London who collaborates with arts institutions including Tate Britain, Somerset House Studios, Singapore Art Museum, Power Station of Art Shanghai, Julia Stoschek Collection, Nationalgalerie Berlin, Fondation Pernod-Ricard, and Rennie Museum. She teaches narrative theory for MA Narrative Environments at Central Saint Martins, and studied Critical Writing at the Royal College of Art. Alex is from Manila, where she is in leadership of SYM, a think-tank for political narrative in Southeast Asia.

https://amfq.xyz/