Study of Systems

Estudio de Sistemas (Study of Systems) series is a set of events in multiple formats that examines how complex technological systems operate and the real consequences they produce. With this new strand, Medialab approaches technology as a question of scale: infrastructures that are woven into everyday life yet, in practice, operate beyond the thresholds of the sensible — whether due to their speed, their unfolding over deep temporal arcs, their entanglement with geological processes, or the opacity of the technical apparatuses that constitute them.

Through this series, Medialab brings together leading figures from research and artistic practice to propose concepts and creative strategies capable of interpreting these challenges in the present.

 LAB 5 PROGRAM (2026)

May 7 - 9
Estudio de Sistemas 1 - Anatomy of non-fact
With Martyna Marciniak

May 27
Estudio de Sistemas 2 - Mind Reading Machines: From animal magnetism to brain engineering
with Gala Hernández López

June 4 - 6
Estudio de Sistemas 3 - Cognitive Warfare: Design Your Own Neuroweapon

June 25 - 27
Estudio de Sistemas 4 - Autopsy of a data trail
with Júlia Nueno Guitart & Lucia Rebolino

September 24 - 25
Estudio de Sistemas 5 - The Colonial Render

October 9 - 10
Estudio de Sistemas 6 - Digital Occultism

October 16 - 17
Estudio de Sistemas 7 - Exocapitalism

 LAB 4 PROGRAM (2025)

October 29
Estudio de Sistemas 1 - Encounter with Jussi Parikka and Iris Long.                                        

November 07-08
Estudio de Sistemas 2 -  Attention: From Condition to Currency. Post-Screen Objects. A 2-days intensive workshop led by Metahaven.

December 9
Estudio de sistemas 3 - Open Studio. Marina Otero and Manuel Correa.