«Neighbors of the Barrio de Las Letras, users and friends of Medialab Prado, people from Madrid: we want to see each other's faces again, meet to share some time together, give thanks, and say what we think and feel we can do to improve the city ​​where we live. To do this, we summon you, analogically and digitally, around the digital façade of Medialab Prado next Saturday, June 18 at sunset ».

"What we propose is to participate in an activity that will screen, from June 18 to 30, images of the faces and text messages of all the people who have something to share."

"What do we need? Selfies

This interactive video-installation Works on how we experiment and perceive the smile. Lien-Chen Wang searches the word “smile” on Google in order to collect facial expressions captured in all kind of moments. The outcome is a bunch of virtual images that have undergone an alienation process. The software used detects the spectator’s position through a camera so that everyone has to deal with a foreign smile in an impersonal and anonymous representation.  

This installation enables us to think about the mental process involved in an emotional response such as smiling. Behind these smiles

Photogrammetry, or Structure-from-Motion, is a method of reconstructing the 3D model of an arbitrary object from a series of photographs using a digital camera. This technique can trace, record and represent geometries, textures, and sites both efficiently and relatively inexpensively. In this workshop, participants will learn how to systematically photograph things and the steps of processing digital images into a 3D model with Agisoft's MetaShape and Meshlab.

The workshop is structured in one practical session at Medialab Prado. In the first part of the session, the artist will explain

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

The Digital Façade of Medialab is like a game boy, but giant. You can program your projects in javascript with P5.js or Three.js using: http://programalaplaza.medialab-prado.es 

Or you can make them with your favorite software by following the documentation that is here:

https://www.medialab-prado.es/noticias/fachada-digital-informacion-tecn…

https://github.com/medialab-prado/RecursosFachada 

Prepara tus visuales de San Juan para la fachada de Medialab-prado

18.00-22.00 Preparación de proyectos. 

• Expertos y novatos pueden traer de casa sus proyectos o trabajarlos durante

Starting from the conception of the planet as an interdependent metabolic system, the FONDO collective considers cooking a global operation, and food consumption a terraforming process. What does this mean aesthetically? The Synergetic Banquet will try to materialise some of these ideas through a performative installation, which at the same time gathers ideas and reflections worked on during the week in the program of activities Cooking Earth curated by the collective Black Almanac.

The reduced use of land, the diversification of the origins of our food, the automation of processes and

Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D., Founder, Executive Director. Marcin Jakubowski is the founder of Open Source Ecology, an open collaborative of engineers, producers, and builders developing the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). The GVCS is a set of 50 most important machines that it takes for modern life to exist – everything from a tractor, to an oven, to a circuit maker. Marcin and his team are producing open source blueprints – so that anyone can build and maintain machines at a fraction of what it costs today. His goal is to create a life size LEGO set of powerful, self-replicating

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