Deep Space @ Affect Space

Affect Space deals with the overlap of urban public spaces, the explosive growth of mobile media and wireless networks, and the intense affective exchanges that increasingly dominate how these spaces function.

Master Classes, Public Interventions, Conferences, Pop-up Exhibitions @ Cool Mediators Foundation, Berlin, Cambridge (MA, USA), The Hague, Madrid, Rotterdam, 2018-2019

transmediale

transmediale is an annual festival and a platform for critical reflection on cultural change from a post-digital perspective. For over thirty years, it has been one of the leading international events in the field of digital art and culture.
The annual festival brings together international artists, researchers, activists and thinkers with the aim of developing new perspectives on our technological age by interweaving different genres and curatorial approaches. Over the course of its history, transmediale has evolved from its beginnings as the VideoFilmFest into one of the world’s most important events for art and digital culture.

Affect
Space

International program

The international program on “Affect Space” is an extended design, practice, and theory project. It consists of a series of master classes with public interventions, of international conferences and of pop-up exhibitions.

Hybrid Space Lab is leading the master class Deep Space in Madrid and organizing an international conference and a master class with public interventions and a related exhibition in Berlin.
Their work has been foundational for the development of the Affect Space concept and research.

The “Affect Space” international program is initiated and organised by Eric Kluitenberg and the Cool Mediators Foundation.

Partners

Art Science Interfaculty and the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, Madrid
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin
JARD Architecture Studio, Madrid
MIT ACT – Art, Culture and Technology program, School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Open! Platform for Art, Culture & the Public Domain

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PROJECTS

Convers(at)ions

Convers(at)ions creatively engages with border phenomenology and performativity, transforming military demarcations through a more‑than‑human view and activating nature’s potential.

Research, Lectures & Discussions @ Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) &  European Green Belt (EGB), Berlin & Seoul, October 2019~2023

Re-Charting Places

In our globalized world the accelerating speed of socio-political and cultural change collides with the longue-durée of heritage sites and territories.

Publication Re-Charting Places @ Contested Spaces – Concerted Projects: Designs for Vulnerable Memories, Lettera Ventidue Edizioni, Syracuse, Italy, April 2021

Resignify City

Focusing on the cityscape and silenced voices, and fostering memory‑making through innovative, participatory methods that avoid physical intervention.

Lectures & Workshop Resignify City @ Media Architecture Biennale 2021, Amsterdam, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 24 June 2021

Voiced Space

How to read territories through their historical ties to former colonies and contribute to shaping an inclusive, cultural heritage becomes a central question.

Lectures, Workshops & Conference International Research Program @ Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, 2019~2022
Lecture @ Media Architecture Biennial 2020, Amsterdam, 29 June-3 Juli 2020
Lecture & Workshop @ Media Architecture Biennial 2021, Amsterdam, 27 June-2 July 2021

Tools for Heritage

Linking arts, technology, memory studies and science, Deep Space opens layered meanings of Valle de los Caídos and imagines futures after Franco’s exhumation.

Exhibition, Lecture & Discussion 5 June 2019 @ Goethe Institut, Madrid, 5 June 2019

DMZpace

The DMZ between North Korea and South Korea is a 250 km long, 4 km wide military buffer zone stretching from the East Sea to the Yellow Sea.

Workshop DMZpace @ DMZ, CCL, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, 30 May-3 June 2010Exhibition @ Yeonnamjang Gallery Seoul, 2 May-17 May 2020
Exhibition @ Korean Cultural Center Paris, 10 September-6 November 2020

Deep Space

Deep Space is a long-term investigative program initiated to deal with politics of memory, controversial space and monuments, digitalization and heritage.

Workshop Deep Space: re-signifying Valle de los Caídos @ Medialab Prado & Valle de los Caídos, Madrid, 25-27 October 2018
Opening, Exhibition, Lecture & Discussion Lost Memory – Recovered Memory @ Goethe Institut & Fundación Pablo Iglesias, Madrid, 5 June 2019
Workshop & Lecture @ ISEA 2022 Symposium “Possibilities” Heritage and Futures, Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona, 12 June & 14 2022

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PRESS

Deep Space @ ARA

Publication by Sílvia Marimon Molas in the leading Catalan newspaper ARA on how Spanish authorities are relocating symbols of the dictatorship.

Publication Uncomfortable Memory, Sílvia Marimon Molas @ ARA Catalan Newspaper, Barcelona, 16 July 2022

Conflict Space @ ISEA 2022

The lecture and workshop Conflict Space takes place at ISEA 2022 “Possibilities” at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona.

Lecture & Workshop Conflict Space @ ISEA 2022 Symposium “Possibilities”, Heritage and Futures @ Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, 12 June 2022 &  14 June 2022

Re-Charting Places @ Designs for Vulnerable Memories

Publication on Hybrid Space Lab’s work on contested monuments is published in book “Designs for Vulnerable Memories”.

Publication Re-Charting Places @ Contested Spaces – Concerted Projects: Designs for Vulnerable Memories, LetteraVentidue Edizioni, Syracuse, Italy, April 2021

Deep Space @ Art Journal Hjärnstorm

Hjärnstorm, the Swedish independent journal of art, literature, philosophy published an article on Deep Space.

Publication Valle de los Caídos: the Digital Architecture Embraces a Painful Heritage, Cecilia Nyman @ Hjärnstorm Stockholm, 5 January 2021

Deep Space @ archithese

Hybrid Space Lab analyzed “Valley of the Fallen” near Madrid – the pompous tomb for the fascist dictator Francisco Franco.

Publication Informing instead of glorifying, Jørg Himmelreich, @ archithese, Switserland, 28 November 2020

Deep Space @ Deutschlandfunk Kultur

The Valle de los Caídos is controversial as a Civil War memorial, long serving to glorify Franco rather than commemorate the fallen.

Interview, Eckhard Roelcke, journalist @ Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Germany, 8 August 2020

Deep Space @ Tagesspiegel

Hybrid Space Lab suggests recontextualizing Franco’s controversial mausoleum in the Valley of the Fallen, contributing a new perspective to the monument debate.

Publication, Bernhard Schultz, journalist @ Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 16 July 2020

Deep Space @ TAZ

Monuments carry meaning. Hybrid Space Lab studies how monument narratives can be renegotiated and how critical perspectives can be introduced.

Interview, Brigitte Werneburg, journalist @ taz, Germany, 14 July 2020

Deep Space @ ARA Catalan Newspaper

“The Valley of the Fallen without Franco: the fate of the other 33,847 dead”.
Article by journalist Sílvia Marimom in the Catalan Newspaper ARA on the future of the Valle de los Caídos and Deep Space.

Article The Valley of the Fallen without Franco: the fate of the other 33,847 dead, Sílvia Marimom @ Catalan Newspaper ARA, Barcelona, 23 November 2019 

Deep Space @ HuffPost

HuffPost article “Without Franco, what to do with Valle de los Caídos?”, Anthony Berthelier presents Deep Space’s creative approach to re‑signifying the site.

Article Without Franco, what to do with the colossal Valle de los Caídos?, Anthony Berthelier @ HuffPost , France, 24 October 2019

Deep Space @ Magazine for Architecture Marlowes

The Valley of the Fallen is a memorial erected near Madrid in the mountain range of the Sierra de Guadarrama on the initiative of the dictator Francisco Franco.

Publication From Monument to Memorial@ Magazine for Architecture and City Marlowes, Germany, 16 Juli 2019

Deep Space @ France TV

Spain’s socialist government seeks to move dictator Franco’s remains from his vast Valle de los Caídos basilica near Madrid, attracting over 300,000 visitors.

Publication, Juliette Campion @ France TV Info, Paris, 10 June 2019

Deep Space @ El País

Deep Space by Hybrid Space Lab, at the Goethe‑Institut Madrid, uses virtual reality to rethink the Valley of the Fallen and transform its totalitarian legacy.

Publication, Peio H. Riaño @ El País, Madrid, 6 June 2019

 

Deep Space @ Bnieuws TU Delft

Hybrid Space Lab takes a unique approach to re-signifying Valle de los Caídos, the deeply controversial burial ground of Franco and 33,000 civil war victims.


Article by Elena Rossoni @ Bnieuws TU Delft, The Netherlands, 5 February 2019

Deep Space @ Politecnico di Milano School of Architecture

Hybrid Space Lab presents Deep Space the a long-term investigative program initiated to deal with politics of memory, controversial monuments and heritage.

Lecture & Discussion @ TRACES, Politecnico di Milano School of Architecture, via Ampère 2, Milan, 25 January 2019

Deep Space @ Het Financieele Dagblad

Frans Vogelaar wants to give the Valley of the Fallen in Spain, one of the most controversial places in the world, new meaning.

Article Deep Space @ Het Financieele Dagblad, the Netherlands, January 2019

Deep Space @ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The Valley of the Fallen, the shrine of Franco’s dictatorship, is still dividing Spain.

Article The Hot Ashes of the Dictator, Paul Ingendaay @ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1 November 2018

Deep Space @ Catalan Newspaper ARA

Catalan journalist Sílvia Marimon recounts the Deep Space workshop visit to Valle de los Caídos and stresses the need to change its narrative.

Publication The Gaze of European Experts, Sílvia Marimon @ ARA Catalonia, Spain, 31 October 2018

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