On its 15th anniversary, Art Madrid has wanted to organize an intense program of activities that begins before the fair and that extends during the five days of the event to turn the month of February into a real celebration of the most current and dynamic contemporary art.

Workshop proposal: Artistic research from sound and musical practice by Enrique Tomás and members of the 'Ensemble Container'. Curator, Alberto Bernal

Artistic research -artistic research- is one of the most active fields of current thought and creation. The investigation arises through a question about the world that surrounds us. The search for answers can motivate research processes in varied areas of knowledge. For example in philosophy, poetry, biology, art, physics or music. Research in general, regardless of motivation and methods, is part of that search for knowledge. The only

Encounter between several of the artists invited to the festival to generate a debate among various voices and that they themselves tell us about their work and experiences.

Guest artists:

BandaPan (esp), Fran López (esp), Mercedes Pedroche (esp), Mar Garrido (esp), Colectivo Ergo Sound (esp), Luis Carlos Rodríguez (esp) and Glenda León (cub / esp) and Gregorio Méndez (esp)

Moderated by: Valentina María Viqueira

Access to exhibition spaces and Festival activities are free, the latter with prior registration. Due to security regulations, this activity will be broadcast via

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

It has been 10 years since the first AVLab 1.0 prototyping workshop at Medialab Prado and many things have happened in the field of audiovisual creation with technology. There are new tools and new interests, as well as a variety of media from which sound and audiovisual artists can express themselves and develop their creative work. Some examples of this are net art, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, robotics, cryptocurrencies, social networks or streaming platforms that have modified not only the way we communicate, but also the way of perceiving our environment, having fun or to

Facts are not natural occurrences; they are carefully assembled. For a long time, this assembly was anchored in the visible—a photograph, a physical map, or a witness account. Today, however, these forms of evidence exist alongside a new, digital architecture of truth. Deep within this black box, states and corporations manufacture the facts that sustain their imaginaries.

This production relies on a spectrum of material that often remains invisible to the eye: satellite traces that redefine landscapes, credit footprints that determine social mobility, metadata that maps our private

This meeting will serve to bring together the artists in residence, Xoan-Xil López and Horacio González, as a closing of the festival, the collaborations and the result of the Experimental Lutheria Workshop.

MADATAC X, under the motto "Post Digital Star" brings to Medialab Prado artists Albert Merino and "Saint Machine", who will show their latest works and discuss their creative processes, common problems and current developments.