Communication Guild 25-26

How is memory built, cared for, preserved, and shared? What infrastructures, institutions, and actors do we rely on to create and preserve our memory? How do we create the archive and its files (.jpg, .pdf, .txt, etc.)? How do we relate to data, its centres and its peripheries?

 Through these questions, Barby and Ezequiel explore the poetics and politics of memory. Dealing with issues of technological sovereignty (critique of technofeudalism, lo-fi aesthetics, open-source practices...) of epistemic and decolonial repair and of living archives, we seek to question the structures (technical, political and institutional) on which narratives and memories are built.

The guild's work is based on research (theoretical and practical) and inter-guild collaboration, creating partnerships with the various residents of the Santa Mònica. Its main actions take shape in the "The Garden of Memory" event (June 2026) and the research project "Seeds, Automatons, and Living Things", regarding the public, accessible and independent dimension of the residence prototypes.

Barby Boustier and Ezequiel Soriano