In April 2026 I released a very simple "white paper" to introduce the theme of Medialab Matadero's annual program: The Mechanics of Truth.

Rather than a curatorial text, it's a short and basic call for action / artistic research. Its goal? Providing a framework to look at different issues and fields of research as part of one and same landscape. A launch pad for new projects, prototypes, and investigations, that are ultimately coalescing in Medialab's 2026 program of workshops, talks, seminars, residencies and final festival.

The first version was drafted in June 2025, the final title emerged in a conversation with Anna Engelhardt in July 2025. Here's an excerpt and the link to the whole thing:

A White Paper

Why has it become so much easier and, simultaneously, so much harder to believe what we see? The perception of the world has always been contested territory, but something has shifted.

This is a working document — an attempt to name something that is happening, map its contours, and open space for thinking and making inside it. 

The field of action is the production of truth: how facts are assembled, how belief is manufactured, how reality gets contested in real time, how models and simulations can manipulate or come to the rescue.

This is not a new problem. But the tools available to those who want to construct — or demolish — a version of the world have changed dramatically, and so has the speed at which those constructions circulate and calcify.

LAB 5 The Mechanics of Truth is a program designed to respond to this moment. It brings together artists, designers, researchers, journalists, technologists, and scientists to investigate these phenomena as practitioners who can open them up, reveal their internal logic, and imagine alternatives.

Full text at: LAB 5 - White Paper (pdf)

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