Laboratories
From June 14th until February 2024, LAB#03 'Synthetic Minds' offers a journey into the core ontology of intelligence itself, intertwined with the planetary potential nestled within its reconceptualization." White Paper LAB#03. Distributed cognition, cybernetics, non-human intelligences, AGI, complex systems, alien semiotics... these are just some topics at the core of 'Synthetic Minds', the third speculative research and production laboratory developed by Medialab Matadero. LAB#03 Synthetic Minds consist of a eight-month interdisciplinary program where citizens from all over the world can join...
LAB#02 'The Metabolic Sublime' is the second in a series of interdisciplinary laboratories for research and collaborative production that Medialab Matadero will deploy throughout 2022 and 2023 to materialize and operationalize collective intelligences. LAB#02 has a six-month program that will run from September to February in different spaces of Matadero Madrid, and will offer a collaborative prototyping workshop, conferences, courses, seminars, artistic projects and a large OpenLAB event where the activities carried out during the six months of the program will be made visible. Energy...
LAB#01 Medios Sintientes is the first of a series of multidisciplinary research and collaborative production laboratories designed to materialize and activate collective intelligences that Medialab Matadero will deploy throughout 2022 and 2023. With a quarterly program, which will run from January to March in different spaces of Matadero Madrid, it will offer a collaborative prototyping workshop, conferences, courses, seminars, artistic projects and a great OpenLAB event where the activities carried out during the three months of the program will be made visible. The theme of the activities of...
In Medialab, working groups formed by users who wish to develop some kind of project or activity meet periodically. These groups are open to the participation of anyone and give back to the community their work in the form of documentation of their processes, organization of workshops, talks, etc.
Grants to develop research projects for 12 months within the framework of the themes proposed by Medialab, and in dialogue with the communities linked to it. Medialab calls for three research projects that develop, during a maximum period of one year, a research project within the framework of the themes proposed by the Medialab curatorial manager, and in dialogue with the activities of Medialab's annual program and the communities linked to it. Medialab is a space for innovation and research that welcomes projects that are too exceptional to fit into the strict lines of academic research...