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

Stagecraft, technology and magic. Visit to Amazon - Digital Gesture

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

Status Code: 409 Conflict

Status Code: 409 Conflict - Prototype

This project takes as its starting point a technical report ellaborated to justify a process of a big scale layoff worldwide which included the prototype author Irene Pietrella’s workplace. Far from treating it as an administrative document, the research approaches it as a political artefact: an...
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...
Mark Zuckerberg sitting in a domestic space in a domestic setup. An analisis of the power symbols present in the image are included.

The Vibes of Power. Calin Segal

In a time when the image has been rendered primordial and text relegated to the metadata, aesthetics operates as central instrument of governance, capable of subverting and reconfiguring reason itself. Building on this premise, the project investigates how sensorial strategies are mobilized to...
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...