talks

Listening Academy, Lisbon (2026)
A presentation on my research with the hydraulic and subtle infrastructures of the Manzanares river and a workshop exploring how Spain and Portugal are connected through…
IVAM, Valencia (2025)
A guided meditation on the museum as a porous and amphibious institution, and a situated mediation on the water consumption of the IVAM museum. As part…
3CR Radical Radio, Melbourne (2025)
A radio conversation on listening to water, coral reef ecologies, and what our relationships with aquatic environments reveal about broader questions of technology and interspecies communication.…
Disseny Hub, Barcelona (2025)
A talk as part of Wet Conversations: Prototypes for Intra-acting with Water Bodies, exploring embodied and artistic approaches to water ecologies. With Superflex Studio, Fahrenheit 180,…
Catholic University of Chile, Santiago (2024)
A talk at the Tentacular: Decentering Design Practices Seminar inspired by my essay "Humid Telepathy", on how to rethink technology beyond the digital realm, taking into…
Colmenar de Artes Vivas, Asunción (2024)
A talk and workshop on sensing bodies of water from a distance and connecting with the Paraguay River through the imagination, for a group of visual…
Interview at La Casa Encendida Radio, Madrid (2024)
An interview by Yuri Tuma on my artistic research, exploring water ecologies, digital infrastructures, membranes, and telepathic practices. Listen to the full interview in Spanish here
Avans University, Breda (2024)
A talk at the Professional Doctorate Art + Creative on my artistic methodologies at the intersection of ethnography, audiovisual experimentation, and collective pedagogies. Watch the video…
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (2023)
Down Alive to Wondrous Depths, a performance talk along with Ayeesha Hameed and Huniti Goldox on the power of mythology to create counter-narratives about the infrastructure…
International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA), Barcelona (2022)
Presentation on my research on the landing station of the Atlantis-2 submarine cable at Conil de la Frontera, and its relationship with colonial and mythological infrastructures…
Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels (2022)
A performative talk on telepathy, water ecologies, and telecommunication waves, presented as part of Rossella Biscotti’s exhibition The Journey. Read more here
Ural Biennial, Yekaterinburg (2021)
A performative online talk about my text Telepathy Without the Internet in the Ural Biennial curated by Daniel Blanga-Gubbay, Russia, 2021.
On Coloniality. a.pass, Brussels (2021)
A workshop on poetry and digital infrastructures, tracing the names of submarine cables and their geographies through affective cartographies. Read more here
Colonial Infrastructures. varia, Rotterdam (2021)
A talk alongside Dachen Bao and Sami Hammana on artistic practices that engage with digital infrastructures, networks, and their material and political dimensions. Read more here
Derivas Submarinas. LABoral, Gijón (2021)
A talk alongside Enar de Dios Rodríguez as part of her exhibition Liquid Ground on science, mythology, and image-making at the ocean floor. Watch entire talk…
Politics of The Machine, Berlin (2021)
Presentation on my research on the Atlantis-2 submarine cable. Read more about the program here
Net Art Today. Banco de la República Museums, Bogotá (2020)
A conversation with Ana María Montenegro and David Medina on web-based artistic practices and the role of net art today, as part of the seminar Digital…
Transmediale Research Seminar, Berlin (2020)
A talk on digital hunters and techno-territories, exploring how crowdsourced surveillance platforms at the US/Mexico border militarize citizens through participatory architectures of vision and social media,…
Encounters with Donna Haraway, Bogotá (2019)
A talk co-presented with Juan Felipe Riaño as part of a panel with Donna Haraway at Ecologías Tentaculares: encuentros con Donna Haraway in the Universidad del…
I International Seminar on Art and Cultural Research, Montevideo (2017)
A talk exploring the linguistic, metaphorical, and material connections between water cycles and digital space, questioning the ideology of intangibility that surrounds the internet and its…
I Banal de Arquitectura, Bogotá (2016)
A talk on digital archives, information overload, and the paradox of knowing less the more data we accumulate. Presented at the I Banal de Arquitectura, an…

A presentation on my research with the hydraulic and subtle infrastructures of the Manzanares river and a workshop exploring how Spain and Portugal are connected through the Tagus river basin, with exercises in humid telepathy. Organized by the Listening Academy at the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon.

Read more about the series here