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LAB 5 The Mechanics of Truth

OpenLAB Festival: 'The Mechanics of Truth'

Closing festival of Medialab Matadero's LAB 5

Over three days of talks and presentations, artists, technologists, designers, thinkers, and program participants will address these questions through artistic research practices, grassroots innovation, and alternative visions to commercial mainstream channels.

 

Accesibilidad

Reduced mobility

Main languages: Spanish and English with simultaneous translation.

Finished

Date

November 26, 27, and 28

Timetable

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM and 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Venue

Nave Una
Nave 17. Aulario

Price

Free admission, no registration required; seating available on a first-come, first-served basis.

 

Category

Thinking

Format

Festival

Institution

Matadero Madrid

Programme

Medialab Matadero

Throughout the year, LAB 5: The Mechanics of Truth has explored the technological production of the real: how facts are assembled, how belief is manufactured, how perception is under constant pressure, and how models and simulations can manipulate it or come to its rescue.

The OpenLAB brings this journey to a close.

Over three days of talks and presentations, artists, technologists, designers, thinkers, and program participants will address these questions through artistic research practices, grassroots innovation, and alternative visions to commercial mainstream channels. Among these, the prototypes from the Collaborative Prototyping Lab—developed by 25 participants selected through an international open call—will be presented.

Program

 

I'm still here - Martyna Marciniak

 

Thursday, NOV 26

Nave Una

  • 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Situated Research Residencies:
    • User Agreement – Álvaro Soto López
    • The Vibes of Power – Calin Segal
    • El Gesto Digital: sobre la condición mágica de la técnica (The Digital Gesture: On the Magical Condition of Technology) – Andrea Muniáin & Paula Ramos
  • 6:45 PM | The Conversion Code – Collaborative Prototyping Lab
  • 7:00 PM | Infraestructuras de la computación, violencia, metodologías forenses (Computing Infrastructures, Violence, Forensic Methodologies) – Júlia Nueno Guitart
  • 7:30 PM | Status Code: 409 Conflict – Collaborative Prototyping Lab
  • 7:45 PM | HTML Hide Through Model Lies – Lucia Rebolino
  • 8:15 PM | Velocidad y desaparición (Speed and Disappearance) – Martyna Marciniak

 

Franziska Von Guten - Lost in the slop

 

Friday, NOV 27

Aulario + Nave Una

  • 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Aulario):
    • Wikipedia 2030 – Patricia Horrillo
    • Visual Trust: A Multimodal Experimental Project – Amanda Bernal Pérez
  • 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM (Nave Una):
    • 6:45 PM | Cute & Fake – Collaborative Prototyping Lab
    • 7:00 PM | Horrores encriptados: los Lost Media en el folclore digital (Encrypted Horrors: Lost Media in Digital Folklore) – Arianna Caserta
    • 7:30 PM | Just a Lipstick – Collaborative Prototyping Lab
    • 7:45 PM | Orientación sentimental automatizada: renderizando almas gemelas (Automated Sentimental Orientation: Rendering Soulmates) – Live podcast by Girl Employee
    • 8:00 PM | Lost in the Slop – Franziska Von Guten

 

 

Wassim Alsindi

 

Saturday, NOV 28

Aulario + Nave Una

  • 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Aulario):
    • Futures of AI – Research Unit
    • Ghost Platform: Against Invisibility – Research Unit
  • 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM (Nave Una):
    • 6:45 PM | Seeder – Collaborative Prototyping Lab
    • 7:00 PM | Excavando las redes: en busca de verdades entre ruinas digitales (Excavating the Networks: Searching for Truths Among Digital Ruins) – Sophie Publig
    • 7:30 PM | El golf(o) que nos separa (The Gulf / Rogue That Separates Us) – Wassim Alsindi
    • 8:15 PM | El truco (The Trick) – Marta Peirano

 

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