TERRITORIO ECTOPLASMA INTRODUCTION: WHO WANTS THE CLOUD IN THEIR BACKWARD?

Many of us use phones, computers, streaming platforms, video games, and other services that increase data production and consumption. Many celebrate advances in climate science, healthcare and electromobility, or are excited about developments in AI, the Internet of Things, and the Metaverse. Consequently, we support the opening of new mines, extraction of more resources, constructing more data centers, the production of more batteries and development of more power plants that keep the promises of infinite growth

MARINA OTERO'S PRESENTATION

Data centers are a fundamental component of today’s digital infrastructure. This session focuses on their socio-political implications and environmental impacts, and their relevance for the future of data sovereignty.

MÉL HOGAN (online)
5-6 PM

Since 2012, Mél Hogan has advanced research on data storage. Her work explores alternatives to data centers and their excessive water and energy consumption. She also critically analyzes technological solutions that allegedly could solve the data deluge, such as DNA-based storage. Currently, Hogan is curious about

Digital infrastructures are entangled with the landscapes of resource extraction. Accelerated extraction and consumption of minerals used for construction of batteries and devices, and the subsequent development of digital subjectivities has led to an unprecedented destruction of ecosystems. Speakers will move between land and sea, macro and micro scales, and time frames, lawmaking and activism to unveil emerging forms of resistance to resource extraction.

LARA ALMARCEGUI (online)
1 - 2 PM

Artist Lara Almarcegui looks into the essential, yet scarcely asked, questions about ownership of

“Progress” comes too often at the expense of those communities portrayed as backward, uneducated, animalized, or non-existent. Some of them turn this violence and discrimination into a force for their survival by means of embodied practices and more-than-human solidarity. Mobilizing design, fiction and performance, transfigurations, incantations and rituals, the session seeks to invoke and embody the “ectoplasm territories” we addressed during the week and engage them in the creation of “counterworlds.”

THANDI LOEWENSON (online)
11 - 12 PM

In this performance lecture, Thandi Loewenson

A workshop about movement for blind people

Infinite worlds are displayed in front of our senses when we put on some virtual reality glasses. At that very moment, the concepts of time and space take on a new dimension, altering our perception of reality and our own corporeality to embrace digitality. In this new state, we will learn many ways of interacting with the environment, turning us into active players in a creative process of constant experimentation.

At this new LEV Matadero we ask ourselves these questions. How we interact in and with virtual environments? Which strategies allow us to inhabit digital worlds? Which creative

The participants of the program will present their project proposals—works that are the result of three weeks of collective exploration, shaped by workshops, talks, and performances centered around xenovisuality as an expanded field of thought, creation, and critical imagination.

Starting at 21:00, the closing event moves to Siroco ArtLab, where some of the proposals will unfold in dialogue with sound—embracing a celebration of the collective fabulations woven throughout the program.

In this way, the XenoShow becomes both a vanishing point and an invitation to once again inhabit the

This programme involves groups created by public call to develop collaborative projects to be presented on 12 June 2025.

Workshop programme
 

Thursday 29 May
16:00 - 16:15 Welcome by XVS. (Mar Osés, Esther Rizo and Pilar del Puerto)

16:15 - 17:00 Labour and affective matter in domestic realism. Carmen Lael Hines

17:00 - 17:30 Computers. XVS (Mar Osés, Esther Rizo and Pilar del Puerto)

17:30 - 18:30 tac tac: psychoacoustics of digital writing. Antonio Ferrerira

18:30 - 19:00 BREAK

19:00 - 20:00 PORNO-WOMB. Regina Carolina and Miguel Pardo Bachiller

Friday 30 May
16:00