LAB#02 "The Metabolic Sublime"

Lab 2 El sublime metabólico

LAB#02 'The Metabolic Sublime' is the second in a series of interdisciplinary laboratories for research and collaborative production that Medialab Matadero will deploy throughout 2022 and 2023 to materialize and operationalize collective intelligences.

LAB#02 has a six-month program that will run from September to February in different spaces of Matadero Madrid, and will offer a collaborative prototyping workshop, conferences, courses, seminars, artistic projects and a large OpenLAB event where the activities carried out during the six months of the program will be made visible.

Energy sovereignty, agrologistic automation, phantom extractivism, territorial instrumentalization, residual circularity, decarbonization, geoengineering... LAB#02 addresses the theme of 'The metabolic sublime', which proposes to reimagine the current energy regimes on a planetary scale and the role that human beings would have to play in order to implement new paradigms. But also, how their implementation will transform us back, demanding new customs, practices and cultures.

> Read more about "The Metabolic Sublime"

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Lucas Muñoz Muñoz studio Residual Re-assembly Workshop

Residual Re-assembly Workshop

Taller de producción
September 14 to 24
Every human activity has its waste. This is an agreement between being and matter in which the former decides on the fate of the latter, usually without much awareness of the impact it may cause
Cooking Earth

Cooking Earth workshop

Seminario
17th to 21st October
The food research platform Black Almanac operates on the assumption that humans have barely begun to exploit the full spectrum of possibilities for energy and matter that might be understood as “food
Cooking Earth

Cooking Earth

Seminario
17 to 21 October
The food research platform Black Almanac operates on the assumption that humans have barely begun to exploit the full spectrum of possibilities for energy and matter that might be understood as “food
Cooking with information

Cooking with Information: Art, Science, and the Transformation of the Food System

Debate/mesa redonda
Desde las 18:00 hasta 20:00 el 20/10/2022
A round table discussion as part of Cooking Earth, part of the LAB#02 “The Metabolic Sublime” Is cooking art or science? Is it both? We live in an age of culinary conservatism, which is bad news for
Synergic Banquet

Synergetic Banquet

Actuación en directo
2oth October at 8pm
Starting from the conception of the planet as an interdependent metabolic system, the FONDO collective considers cooking a global operation, and food consumption a terraforming process. What does this
TERRITORIO ECTOPLASMA

TERRITORIO ECTOPLASMA: On the impact of Digital infrastructures on the Environmental, Social and Mental Ecologies

Debate/mesa redonda Encuentro comunidad Presentación/conferencia
Desde 28/11/2022 19:00 hasta 04/12/2022 19:00
Check the programme here. Convened by architect Marina Otero Verzier, Territorio Ectoplasma is a week-long critical studies programme that looks at the territorial dynamics and often overlooked spaces
TERRITORIO ECTOPLASMA: SESSION #1 Introduction

TERRITORIO ECTOPLASMA: SESSION #1 Introduction

Debate/mesa redonda Encuentro comunidad Presentación/conferencia
Desde 28/11/2022 19:00 hasta 04/12/2022 19:00
TERRITORIO ECTOPLASMA INTRODUCTION: WHO WANTS THE CLOUD IN THEIR BACKWARD? Many of us use phones, computers, streaming platforms, video games, and other services that increase data production and
TERRITORIO ECTOPLASMA: SESSION #2 Data Storage

TERRITORIO ECTOPLASMA: SESSION #2 Data Storage

Debate/mesa redonda Encuentro comunidad Presentación/conferencia
Desde las 16:30 hasta 21:00 el 29/11/2022
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
TERRITORIO ECTOPLASMA: SESSION #3 Embodied field trip

TERRITORIO ECTOPLASMA: SESSION #3 Embodied field trip

Acción en la calle Debate/mesa redonda Presentación/conferencia
Desde las 10:30 hasta 18:00 el 30/11/2022
This session with the Institute for Postnatural Studies invites reclaiming and engaging the body as a medium for creating and understanding our surroundings. Together we explore the digital
TERRITORIO ECTOPLASMA SESSION #4: Collective visualization laboratory

TERRITORIO ECTOPLASMA SESSION #4: Collective visualization laboratory

Debate/mesa redonda Encuentro comunidad Presentación/conferencia
Desde las 12:30 hasta 21:00 el 01/12/2022
A fundamental aspect of research on digital infrastructures is to visualize their effects on communities and ecosystems. This lab aims to provide strategies to visualize and communicate these
TERRITORIO ECTOPLASMA: SESSION #5 Mineral extraction

TERRITORIO ECTOPLASMA: SESSION #5 Mineral extraction

Debate/mesa redonda Encuentro comunidad Presentación/conferencia
Desde las 12:30 hasta 21:00 el 02/12/2022
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
TERRITORIO ECTOPLASMA: SESSION #6 Green colonialims and energy dreams

TERRITORIO ECTOPLASMA: SESSION #6 Green colonialims and energy dreams

Debate/mesa redonda Encuentro comunidad Presentación/conferencia
Desde las 16:30 hasta 21:00 el 03/12/2022
Energy dreams, constructed on compulsive desires for productivity and profit, connect the landscapes of resource extraction with the technologies and spaces of everyday digital life. This session will

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Cooking Earth Book (c) Andrea Provenzano

Cooking Earth publication launched

We are pleased to share "Cooking Earth", a book that emerges from the homonymous workshop organized by Black Almanac and Medialab Matadero in October 2023, as part of the programming...
banner metabolic archives

THE METABOLIC ARCHIVES

Medialab Matadero presents The Metabolic Archives. A growing and open compendium of operational resources, including events, technologies, institutions, maps, conceptual models and critical questions that aims to question the metabolic...
imagen recurso proyectos selecccionados

Discover the 8 projects selected for the collaborative prototyping workshop of LAB#02

Next Tuesday 8th November the webinar to present the selected projects will take place at 18:30h (GMT+1) You can follow it by streaming. here. We present the eight projects selected...
Joana Moll

"The Metabolic Sublime" by Joana Moll

We assume the connections between things to be obvious, although, as Graham Harman said, "not everything is connected". Thus, it is important to trace, on an ongoing basis, the relationships...
Lab Mentor Marina Otero

"The Metabolic Sublime" by Marina Otero

Metabolic Sublime is an invitation to imagine and practice a different spatial, energetic and material system. That exists in continuity with the environment. That is alive and gives life. A...
LAB#02

LAB#02 "The Metabolic Sublime"

Energy sovereignty, agri-logistical automation, phantom extractivisms, territorial instrumentalization, residual circularity, decarbonisation, geoengineering... these are some of the topics we will be tackling during 'The Metabolic Sublime', a six-month interdisciplinary programme...
LAB#02 MENTORS

Meet the experts who will mentor The Prototyping Laboratory of the Lab#02 "The Metabolic Sublime"

Energy sovereignty, human exclusion zones, automated landscapes, phantom extractivisms, territorial instrumentalization, residual circularity, decarbonization, geoengineering... are some of the topics we will address during LAB#02's Collaborative Prototyping Lab 'The Metabolic...