Cute and Fake - Prototype

A specific genre of content is currently exploding across Chinese social media platforms — and spreading rapidly to global audiences. Humans write AI-generated scripts, and then have real or AI-generated animals perform human social situations: a cat working the night shift at a convenience store, a...

ESNOG Meetings (Spanish Network Operator Group)

The purposes of ESNOG meetings include:

  • Provide the means of communication within the Spanish state to promote education and the exchange of knowledge within the technical community and Internet operations.
  • Provide channels for group members to ask questions and discuss issues related to the Internet and public data networks.
  • Promote good Internet practices among the members of the group and also before other public or private entities, both national and international.

ESNOG carries out activities through an email list (gore [at] esnog.net) and regular meetings (bi-annual). Both are

Ghost Platform / Organizing against invisibility - Working group

Working sessions on the invisibilization of human labor, contemporary logistics, and the cross-border flow of goods, drawing on archival video material produced by workers from ten countries who were invited to document their working conditions across different spaces of the platform economy. This...

Global Game Jam 2021

A Game Jam is an intense and exciting encounter between video game creators. The participants of a Game Jam get together in small teams and work to develop a complete video game in a very short period of time. The objectives of this meeting are to have fun and create experimental games that are original and innovative. The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is a one-of-a-kind event - no less than a Game Jam held simultaneously across the world for the same 48 hours!

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Just a Lipstick - Prototype

Beauty standards have always been an impossible pursuit. From traditional cosmetic practices such as makeup to beauty-scoring algorithms, these standards have consistently worked to these ideals seem attainable while keeping them perpetually out of reach. The beauty industry has spent decades...

Knowledge in the Internet age

David Weinberger (New York, 1950), technologist, speaker, researcher and American professor, is one of the greatest references of thought linked to the Internet. In 1999, his life changed after the publication of the Cluetrain Manifesto, an explosive text that anticipated some of the radical ruptures that the network era would bring to the planet. Almost two decades after that manifesto, David Weinberger works at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.

In his conference Knowledge in the Internet age, which will take place in the Medialab Prado Auditorium on

Research Unit

In a context where information circulates as content and ideas compete with viral fictions, the most powerful way of thinking is no longer to explain, but to embody. Networks don’t just amplify messages: they create parallel realities, aesthetic rumors, simulated identities. In this new cultural...

Seeder - Prototype

Through the medium of video games, Seeder offers an empowering, participatory response to Medialab’s LAB 5 The Mechanics of Truth theme. Moving beyond critical reflection and the prevailing despair around Al and future politics discourse, the game chooses instead to center an active and collective...

TERRITORIO ECTOPLASMA SESSION #4: Collective visualization laboratory

A fundamental aspect of research on digital infrastructures is to visualize their effects on communities and ecosystems. This lab aims to provide strategies to visualize and communicate these processes through models encompassing information from diverse sources: field visits, interviews, municipal archives, aerial images, reports, youtube videos, and commercial brochures.

LABORATORY BY BARTLEBOOTH
12.45 - 2.30 PM
& 4.30 - 7.30 PM

Departing from their research project “Exhausted Soils,” Bartlebooth leads a workshop on visualization models of extractive dynamics of mining and energy