The “Punto de Encuentro” Festival has been organized by the AMEE since 1990. This edition presents a series of workshops, talks and performances, in continuity with the “En Red” 10th Symposium held in 2018 in Medialab-Prado, focused on the subject of voice in poetry, cinema and experimental music.

The development of voice as an artistic research field brings up questions regarding the notion of ‘vocal agency’: a certain politics of voice, vocality and intervocality. This includes discussing and reflecting upon ways of speaking and how different uses and conceptions of voice favor certain

This is a workshop for artists, designers, and filmmakers interested in the present and future of attention. Attention itself—and distraction in its many variations—seems to have evolved from a condition into a currency. 

What new tactics and strategies can be worked on to handle storytelling’s dependencies on undivided attention across media, objects, and situations? What new kinds of narrative objects will come into being in a post-screen interpretation of artists’ and alternative cinema? This workshop will be about improvised answers to such questions. No answer is final and every step

As part of the LAB#01 Medios Sintientes program, Medialab Matadero invites you to participate in the collective research workshop entitled Between the planet and the market: Mapping the climate financial complex, which will be given by artist and writer Gary Zhexi Zhang on April 20, from 5 to 8 pm, in Nave 16 of Matadero Madrid. 

Aimed at journalists, economists, artists, writers, and anyone interested in these issues with basic research skills, the objective of this workshop will be to develop scenarios and intervention strategies, where participants will explore the economics of the

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 that moves from theory to speculative practice, challenging participants to

With the intention of reflecting on the Universal Basic Income, ATTAC and Medialab Prado invite us to participate in an open conversation among citizens on June 1st at the Medialab Auditorium. A conversation, where all people can propose, listen and learn from others, instead of convincing or imposing.
We will use a dynamic called Café del Mundo, designed to promote processes of participation and collective reflection in a creative way and at the same time focused on the theme that brings us together. The coffee of the world will allow us to exchange perspectives, opinions, ideas and

The Cosmic Brains Round Tables are a three day series of roundtable discussions taking place within the Cosmic Brains workshop. These discussions will feature key speakers in conversation with a group of invited thought leaders, guests and citizens. The goal of these sessions is to foster an immersive, informal and evolving series of conversations around the guests’ work in progress, and to maintain several days of sustained exchanges leading to the public symposium on 25.11.23 to conclude the week. 

SCHEDULE:

SESSION #01 - Synthetic Minds, Cosmic Brains 

21.11.23 [16.00 -

Su investigación plantea un acercamiento a la idea del aire como sujeto político cuestionando el modo en el que su representación, estetizada y romantizada, ha contaminado el imaginario colectivo. Los atardeceres digitales que nos han acompañado cada ocaso desde el 23 de abril, culminan el 25 de mayo con esta mesa redonda para reflexionar en común y hablar del aire con una nueva perspectiva. Al mismo tiempo, este ocaso abre paso a una nueva etapa de encuentros con artistas, científicas/os y pensadores/as que de un modo u otro se han acercado a la idea del aire como un recurso común y un medio

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