Deep Journalism Seminar

Medialab Matadero will hold on March 12 and 13 in Nave 17 of Matadero Madrid the Seminar Deep Journalism, two days of lectures and debates on unconventional journalistic practices based on open source research, situated curatorship, artificial intelligence and forensic documentary to explore the implications that interdisciplinary artistic practices will have for the future of journalism. 

Curated by journalist and writer Marta Peirano, the program includes the participation of experts from different disciplines who use methodologies based on social sciences, archival work, algorithmic design or artificial vision to reveal stories that could not be told in other ways. 

The first of these sessions will take place on Saturday, March 12, from 5 to 8 p.m., under the title Counter-surveillance and open source journalism. Featuring Adam Harvey and Christo Buschek, it will offer resources for investigating the massive databases produced by the vast digital surveillance infrastructure that facilitate the identification of people and objects such as illegal incendiary weapons during the Syrian conflict or biometric identification systems that enable verification strategies that often contradict the official narrative. The use of satellites that record every second of the earth's surface, observing geophysical phenomena, as well as the development of infrastructures that reveal illegal projects, such as the network of Chinese concentration camps for the genocide of the Uygur minority, will also be discussed.

The second day, to be held on Sunday, March 13, from 12 to 3 p.m., will deal with Xenojournalism and investigative aesthetics. It will feature Alfredo Puente and Susan Schuppli, whose practices render a world of indivisibility, entanglement and systemic concatenations. We live in a moment of technological escalation, in which computation is changing the way we experience space and time. A world where the microscopic and the macroscopic are necessarily interdependent, and where our human stories are intertwined with temporalities and agencies that challenge current models of journalistic investigation. These "metabolisms of information" demand new processes and tools with which to look, situate and construct stories. Guests Pablo Pino, Estrella Alfaro, Natalia Castro and Manuel Correa will also attend the seminar, sharing their impressions to fuel the debate around the issues raised in the seminar.

More information and registration at https://mediossintientes.medialab-matadero.es/