MARINA OTERO'S PRESENTATION

Data centers are a fundamental component of today’s digital infrastructure. This session focuses on their socio-political implications and environmental impacts, and their relevance for the future of data sovereignty.

MÉL HOGAN (online)
5-6 PM

Since 2012, Mél Hogan has advanced research on data storage. Her work explores alternatives to data centers and their excessive water and energy consumption. She also critically analyzes technological solutions that allegedly could solve the data deluge, such as DNA-based storage. Currently, Hogan is curious about

Digital infrastructures are entangled with the landscapes of resource extraction. Accelerated extraction and consumption of minerals used for construction of batteries and devices, and the subsequent development of digital subjectivities has led to an unprecedented destruction of ecosystems. Speakers will move between land and sea, macro and micro scales, and time frames, lawmaking and activism to unveil emerging forms of resistance to resource extraction.

LARA ALMARCEGUI (online)
1 - 2 PM

Artist Lara Almarcegui looks into the essential, yet scarcely asked, questions about ownership of

“Progress” comes too often at the expense of those communities portrayed as backward, uneducated, animalized, or non-existent. Some of them turn this violence and discrimination into a force for their survival by means of embodied practices and more-than-human solidarity. Mobilizing design, fiction and performance, transfigurations, incantations and rituals, the session seeks to invoke and embody the “ectoplasm territories” we addressed during the week and engage them in the creation of “counterworlds.”

THANDI LOEWENSON (online)
11 - 12 PM

In this performance lecture, Thandi Loewenson

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

A workshop about movement for blind people

Within the parallel program of activities of Art Madrid we have the artist Olga Diego who will offer a master class in Medialab Prado under the title The flight as creative matter.