It has been 10 years since the first AVLab 1.0 prototyping workshop at Medialab Prado and many things have happened in the field of audiovisual creation with technology. There are new tools and new interests, as well as a variety of media from which sound and audiovisual artists can express themselves and develop their creative work. Some examples of this are net art, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, robotics, cryptocurrencies, social networks or streaming platforms that have modified not only the way we communicate, but also the way of perceiving our environment, having fun or to

7pm Thursday, June 25, 2026
Talk by Júlia Nueno Guitart and Lucia Rebolino
(public event, free entry)

4pm - 8pm Friday, June 26, 2026
12pm - 8pm Saturday, June 27, 2026
Workshop (with registration)

 

Facts are not natural occurrences; they are carefully assembled. For a long time, this assembly was anchored in the visible—a photograph, a physical map, or a witness account. Today, however, these forms of evidence exist alongside a new, digital architecture of truth. Deep within this black box, states and corporations manufacture the facts that sustain their imaginaries.

This production

in collaboration with Medialab Prado and as part of the Processing Community Day @ Madrid 2020 we are glad to announce a

Call for #tinycode sketches

tweet your creative code in less than 256 chars and we will display-it on the media façade at Medialab Prado on saturday, december the 12th.

To participate:

1. write your code using p5js / processing * in less than 256 chars
2. make sure that it could work on the 192 by 157 pixels of the media façade
3. tweet it on your account tagged as #tinycode and don’t forget to mention @CCodeMadrid
4. if you wish so, publish your code on your web site

7pm Thursday, June 4, 2026
Cognitive Warfare: The Brain is the new Battlefield (talk, free for everyone)

12pm - 8pm Friday, June 5, 2026
12pm - 8pm Saturday, June 6, 2026
Cognitive Warfare: Design your own Neuroweapon (workshop, with registration)

 

If the public sphere has mutated into a landscape of psyops (psychological operations) how do we navigate the transition from passive targets to active architects of cognitive influence? Cognitive Warfare: Design your own Neuroweapon is a two-day intensive workshop led by the researcher Filippo Rosati that moves from theory to speculative practice

Collapse of the Weave Function fits within one of the core themes of LAB 4 —“soft” science fiction— understood as poetic interventions in the technological fault lines of the present. The project will take shape through four works: the audiovisual installation Hometown and the textile pieces Collapse of the Weave Function, Vortices, and Centerless, all commissioned by Medialab Matadero specifically for this occasion.

Filmed in Kyiv and Beirut in 2017, Hometown (2018) constructs an imaginary city through two places that never meet, yet become a unified landscape across the film’s two screens

In collaboration with the Flemish Ministry of Culture, the Residency program of Medialab Prado is hosting Anaïs Berck.

Anaïs Berck is an alias that exists since September 2019. The name stands for a collaboration between humans, algorithms and trees. As a collective Anais Berck opens up a space in which human intelligence is explored in the company of plant intelligence and artificial intelligence. For this project, Anaïs Berck is represented by the human beings An Mertens, Gijs de Heij (http://osp.kitchen/) and Loren Britton (https://www.lorenbritton.com/). The residency involves the trees of

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