Amazon Computer Vision Model. Fuente Roboflow Universe (Georgia Southern)

Stagecraft, technology and magic. Visit to Amazon

What do a 17th-century automaton and a robot in an advanced logistics centre have in common?
 

The public research project El Gesto Digital by Andrea Muniáin and Paula Ramos Mollá, currently in residence at Medialab as part of the Investigación Situada 2026 programme, takes this question as its starting point to explore the historical and contemporary relationships between technology and magic — understanding the magical as an ongoing struggle between concealment and revelation throughout the history of technology.

Andrea Muniáin and Paula Ramos Mollá address these questions through the

Xenosocialism

The Chronicles of Xenosocialist AI

A collaborative worldbuilding project that aims to produce a series of narratives and imaginaries about what the outcomes of a potential encounter of a xenosocialist AI with the human-inhabited Earth might be. What micropolitical trajectories might become visible again if we imagine xenosocialism as...
Mano sobre ratón de ordenador con pinchos

User Agreement. Álvaro Soto López

User Agreement is an artistic research project exploring the relationship between technology, faith and power in the digital age. Through a critical and speculative lens, it proposes imagining a hypothetical "technological cult" as a way to reflect on how platforms, algorithms and online communities...
Wikum

Wikum

Large-scale discussions between many participants abound on the internet today, on topics ranging from political arguments to group coordination. But as these discussions grow to tens of thousands of posts, they become ever more difficult for a reader to digest. In this repository, we document the...