In collaboration with La Capella and the Concèntric 2025 program, einaidea is organizing a three-day intensive workshop with the Dutch collective Metahaven. Taking as a starting point the filmic, poetic and graphic research of Metahaven in their recent works, the workshop will explore issues related to generative technologies and the ways in which they affect our forms of agency, expression and emotion. In what ways are our stories organized and edited in a world dominated by disinformation, covert propaganda, censorship and hallucinated content? The workshop is aimed at anyone who wishes to explore the technopoetics of the moving image with one of the most renowned transdisciplinary collectives of our time.
Metahaven’s work—founded by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden—includes film, design, installations, and writing. Metahaven has presented solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; ICA London; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Herba Bona Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Asakusa, Tokyo; Izolyatsia, Kiev; e-flux, New York; and State of Concept Athens, among others. His films have been screened at IFFR, Docs Against Gravity, CPH, and MoMA, among others. Metahaven has participated in group exhibitions at Artists Space, New York; Gwangju Biennale; Sharjah Biennale; Busan Biennale; Ghost: 2561, Bangkok, and many more. Metahaven is currently an artistic advisor at the Rijksakademie, an affiliated researcher at Antikythera, and department head for the MA Geo-Design at DAE.
This activity is part of Autoensamblatge, a series of workshops organized by einaidea around the poetics of the collective, the codes of self-organization and material cosmopolitics in the context of post-digital culture.
Free activity with prior registration. To participate, write to einaidea@eina.cat before February 15.
