Seeder

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...
Sophie Publig

Sophie Publig, faculty of LAB 5 The Mechanics of Truth

Sophie Publig is a Senior Scientist, lecturer, and internet archaeologist based at the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures, University of Applied Arts Vienna. She is joining Medialab Matadero as a mentor of the LAB 5 The Mechanics of Truth program.
Amazon Computer Vision Model. Fuente Roboflow Universe (Georgia Southern)

Stagecraft, technology and magic. Visit to Amazon - Digital Gesture

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

Status Code: 409 Conflict

Status Code: 409 Conflict - Prototype

This project takes as its starting point a technical report ellaborated to justify a process of a big scale layoff worldwide which included the prototype author Irene Pietrella’s workplace. Far from treating it as an administrative document, the research approaches it as a political artefact: an...
Synthesis and (co)evolution of minimal forms of intelligence

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...
Tools for action from Education for Global Citizenship

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

Xenosocialism

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)

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.