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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

Synthesis and (co)evolution of minimal forms of intelligence

Contemporary discourse on intelligence often revolves around complexity. We propose to take the opposite extreme: to explore intelligence in its minimal form. We draw inspiration from the field of synthetic biology, which studies the concept of life by engineering new organisms from scratch...

The 2030 Agenda from Human Rights and Gender.

We would like to invite you to this activity that will take place next Thursday, June 6, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the MediaLab Prado space (Plaza de las Letras - Calle de la Alameda 15, Madrid), where we will present the material (box of tools) that we have recently developed called: "The 2030 Agenda from Human Rights and Gender: Tools for Action from Education for Global Citizenship".

This resource is part of a project that we have carried out with the support of AECID and we want to emphasize that the final result is the result of a collaborative process in which we have been

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...

The Institute of Alice Guo Studies (copy)

Friday, November 29, 2025 - 19:30h Casa del Lector Auditorium Collaborative prototype presentation Mac Andre Arboleda, Hsiang-Yun Huang, Sergio Pinilla Lopez, Anuphong Sup-adulchai, Ginevra Mazzoni. The Institute of Alice Guo Studies (copy) is a research and production agency concentrating on pirate...
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THE METABOLIC ARCHIVES

Medialab Matadero presents The Metabolic Archives. A growing and open compendium of operational resources, including events, technologies, institutions, maps, conceptual models and critical questions that aims to question the metabolic regime we have in order to ask ourselves about the metabolic regime we need.

Unlovable Creatures

It is an experimental and interdisciplinary laboratory to analyse AI companions from a xenofeminist and posthuman point of view, encouraging the creation of non-anthropomorphic and technosentient cyber-creatures that generate affective relationships with humans. Unlovable Creatures 3, believes in...

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...

Workshop on the relationship of women and society with menstruation.

This workshop seeks to become a meeting place where people meet periodically and an open working group is formed to rethink, from the collective and the collective, the daily practice and the struggles against the heteropatriarchy. All those people willing to share their vulnerability, non-binary identities, women self-identified women and cis men with a desire to listen are invited and welcome.

XenoShow

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