At what point does everyday technology use turn into devotion? User Agreement sits on the border between documentary research and speculative fiction to imagine a supposed "digital cult". Rather than offering answers, the project raises questions about the contemporary fascination with technology and its capacity to generate liturgies, ideologies and forms of community. 

The project builds on a body of texts and audiovisual material, and on dialogue with associations of former members of coercive groups. Along the way, it has opened its process to the public through a programme of conversations with specialists and working groups on cult lore, new conservative aesthetics online, internet gurus and rituals built around technological devices. 

At the end of this process, User Agreement presents an unsettling narrative artefact that questions the lines separating the search for healing, the bond between body and technology, invisible control and the new forms of faith and control we give ourselves over to. 

About Álvaro Soto

Álvaro Soto López interrogates the technologies of capitalism, generating visual metaphors that oscillate between the narrative, the political and the transcendent, in dialogue with Catholic imagery and Andalusian tradition. He studied Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Seville, and holds a Master's in Art Research and Creation from Madrid. He has taken part in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including Relación de Confianza at Espacio Lavadero in Granada, Carlos Computer Caught Fire Five Times at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and VASE Presenta: Paris Hilton Problem at VASE, Seville (2026). In 2027 Álvaro will join the Visual Arts and Performance Residency program at L’Estruch. Fàbrica de Creació de les Arts en Viu (Sabadell). He currently works as an IT technician.

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Programme

10th April 2026 from 19h till 20:30h
Conversation with Íñigo Rubio

3rd June 2026 from 19h till 20:30
Conversation with Luis Santamaría

From 29th April till 1st July from 19h till 20:30h
Working group - User Agreement

November 26 from 16h
Final presentations of the Situated Research 2026 during OpenLAB The Mechanics of Truth