︎︎︎ Funded and promoted by Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) and Media Solution Center Baden-Württemberg (MSC-BW)
︎︎︎ Held at the HLRS High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (Stuttgart, GERMANY)
︎︎︎ Activity scheduled within theGate Festival 2026
︎︎︎ Workshop under the direction of Prof. Marcos Cuzziol, an AI expert from the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo.
︎︎︎ May 18-22 / 2026

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Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) and the Media Solution Center Baden-Württemberg (MSC-BW) selected me, along with Santiago Colombo Migliorero, Louise Ward Morris, Marta Revuelta, and Mar Santamaria Varas (Trescientosmil), for the pioneering ReACH residency (Research and Creation for Electronic Culture and Humanities) in Stuttgart.

This initiative, held at the High-Performance Computing Center (HLRS) at the University of Stuttgart, is positioned at the intersection of supercomputing, artificial intelligence, and the arts, offering residents access to world-class research infrastructure.

The residency is structured as an Advanced School within theGATE Festival. It is designed as an exploratory phase where artists test ideas and develop initial prototypes using High-Performance Computing (HPC) tools and Artificial Intelligence.

The program includes an intensive five-day workshop focused on simulation and visualization, featuring access to the CAVE immersive environment under the direction of Prof. Marcos Cuzziol, an AI expert from the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo.

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Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) y el Media Solution Center Baden-Württemberg (MSC-BW) me seleccionaros, junto a Santiago Colombo Migliorero, Louise Ward Morris, Marta Revuelta y Mar Santamaria Varas (Trescientosmil), para la pionera residencia ReACH (Investigación y Creación para la Cultura Electrónica y las Humanidades) en Stuttgart.

Esta iniciativa, que se llevó a cabo en el Centro de Computación de Alto Rendimiento (HLRS) de la Universidad de Stuttgart, se sitúa en la intersección entre la supercomputación, la inteligencia artificial y las artes, ofreciendo a los residentes acceso a una infraestructura de investigación de nivel mundial.

La residencia, programada dentro de theGATE Festival, se diseñó como una fase exploratoria inicial donde pusimos a prueba nuestras ideas y desarrollamos prototipos utilizando herramientas de Computación de Alto Rendimiento (HPC) e Inteligencia Artificial.

El programa incluyó un taller intensivo de cinco días centrado en la simulación y la visualización, con acceso al entorno inmersivo CAVE bajo la dirección del profesor Marcos Cuzziol, experto en IA del Instituto de Estudios Avanzados de la Universidad de São Paulo.

︎ 18-22/05/26

︎︎︎ Curated by @adonay_bermudez
︎︎︎ Pérez de La Riva Cultural Center, Madrid | Sala Maruja Mallo.
︎︎︎ Feb 26 – May 20 / 2026
︎︎︎ Monday - Friday: 10:00–14:00 / 17:00–21:00 / Saturdays: 10:00–14:00

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"Ecologies of Collapse" advances an inquiry into nature mediated by the symbolic and analytical lexicon of botany. Within this framework, the exhibition interrogates the contemporary tensions between the natural and the artificial—between the organic and the constructed—offering a critical reflection on our inhabited world and the systemic transformations that define it.

Featuring: Paula Anta | Gabriela Bettini | Luna Bengoechea | Daniel L. Fleitas | Antonio Guerra | Santiago Talavera | Santiago Morilla.

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Ecologías del colapso" plantea un acercamiento a la naturaleza a través del lenguaje simbólico y analítico de la botánica. Desde esta perspectiva, la muestra indaga en las tensiones contemporáneas entre lo natural y lo artificial, entre lo que crece y lo que se construye, proponiendo una reflexión crítica sobre el mundo que habitamos y las transformaciones que lo definen.

Con: Paula Anta | Gabriela Bettini | Luna Bengoechea | Daniel L. Fleitas | Antonio Guerra | Santiago Talavera | Santiago Morilla.

︎ 26/02-20/05/26

“Ritual device for fungal humus culture” will be presented at the Theme Exhibition “PANIC: Complex. Absurd. Ominous”, curated by Manuela Naveau, within the Ars Electronica Festival 2025 in Linz (Austria).

The exhibition addresses the political, technological, and ecological forces that generate collective fear and disorientation, while also inviting us to rethink panic as a space for reflection and transformation. Within this framework, the projects developed through the Tilling Roots and Seeds program engage with biodiversity, interspecies relations, and speculative approaches to sustainable futures.

An art project developed during the Tilling Roots and Seeds residency. It consists of a device for cultivating and biosonifying saprophytic fungi, envisioning future systems of biodiversity and sustainable food production.

︎︎︎ Theme Exhibition: “PANIC: Complex. Absurd. Ominous”
︎︎︎ When: September 3–7, 2025
︎︎︎ Where: POSTCITY, Bunker | Linz (Austria)
︎︎︎ Curated by: Manuela Naveau

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This art-based research asks what it means to care for soil today, and how that care can shape the way we grow, eat, and coexist with other forms of life. In this context, fungi emerge as key indicators of biodiversity, revealing the essential role of interspecies collaboration in sustaining nutrient cycling and ecological processes.

The installation presents the audience with a garden-synthesizer sound device designed for the cultivation and biosonification of saprophytic fungi. This interactive environment transforms fungal growth into a responsive soundscape. The audience's presence is detected through sensors in the soil, converting their gestures into music—shaped and modulated by the fungi's own electrical activity– and creating a state of synaptic and performative empathy with their surroundings.

Here, soil is no longer a passive surface, but a living, responsive partner—one that invites us to listen, interact, and recognize ourselves as part of a shared ecological network.

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︎︎︎ Concept and Art Direction: Santiago Morilla.
︎︎︎ Created within the residency program of the Tilling Roots and Seeds project, developed in collaboration with Ferrer Sustainability, Tectum Garden, Món Sant Benet – Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera, and Fundación Contorno Urbano.
︎︎︎ With the support of Quo Artis Foundation, the Dept. of Culture of the Government of Catalonia, and the Barcelona City Council.
︎︎︎ Physical Computing, Interactive Design and Software Development: Joaku de Sotavento & Fernando Fernández.
︎︎︎ Music, Field Recordings and Soundscape Design: Santiago Morilla and Joaku de Sotavento (with the special vocal collaboration of Coco Moya).
︎︎︎ Hardware Design and Construction: Santiago Morilla, Olly Needham and Nicholas Burridge.
︎︎︎ Fungi Suppliers (collaborators): Fungi Natur (Santolaya de Cabranes).
︎︎︎ Academic support: Research group arte-conocimiento.com, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.  

︎ 03-08/Sept./25

This large-format installation is designed to be carried by a bicycle or a motorbike. In its static indoor version, two bicycle machines invite spectators to pedal and pump water from the lower tank to the upper tank (where plants filter the water). From there, the water cycle is distributed through two lateral anthills and a central urn, which serves as a feeding box for ants. The installation encourages us to physically and playfully interact with the small ecosystem, participating in its maintenance.

Can we humans imagine ourselves caring for a colony of Messor Barbarus ants and a plant ecosystem in a symbiotic relationship? This installation, specifically designed for the Science and Water Museum of Murcia, aims to explore the role of human participation in such ecosystems. This innovative installation also attempts to highlight the role of situated technologies as a vital component in the ecosystemic balance and, at the same time, points to the capacity of artistic practice to generate new imaginaries of inter-species assistance.

︎︎︎ Site: Museum of Science and Water, Murcia, Spain.
︎︎︎ Curators: Miguel Mesa del Castillo and Enrique Nieto.

︎ Mixed technique installation: Iron structure (320 cm high, 170 cm wide, 170 cm deep) with two water cyclobombs, piping system, methacrylate urns, plants, geotextile, sand and clay, substrate and filters, two anthills with colonies of Messor barbarus ants.

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Esta instalación de gran formato está preparada para ser remolcada por una bici o moto. En su versión estática interior, dos bici- máquinas invitan a los espectadores a pedalear y bombear agua desde el tanque inferior hasta el tanque superior (donde unas plantas acuáticas filtran el agua). Desde ahí, el agua sigue su ciclo distribuyéndose para hidratar dos formicarios laterales y regar de nuevo la urna central, que hace las veces de caja de forrajeo para las hormigas. La instalación nos invita al compromiso físico y lúdico con el pequeño ecosistema, participando así de su mantenimiento durante el tiempo de exposición.

¿Podemos imaginarnos cuidando de una colonia de hormigas Messor Barbarus y de un ecosistema vegetal en relación simbiótica? Esta instalación, específicamente diseñada para el Museo de la Ciencia y el Agua de Murcia, quiere explorar el papel de la participación humana en dichos ecosistemas. Además, pretende destacar el papel de las tecnologías situadas como un componente vital en el equilibrio ecosistémico y, al mismo tiempo, apuntar la capacidad de la práctica artística para generar nuevos imaginarios de cuidado interespecie.

︎︎︎ Lugar: Museo de la Ciencia y el Agua, Murcia, España.
︎︎︎ Comisarios: Miguel Mesa del Castillo y Enrique Nieto.

︎ Instalación específica en técnica mixta: Estructura de hierro (320 cms alto, 170 cms ancho, 170 cms fondo). Dos ciclo-bombas de agua, sistema de tuberías, dos urnas de metacrilato y carpintería metálica, plantas, geotextil, arena y arcilla, sustrato y filtros, dos hormigueros con dos colonias de hormigas Messor barbarus.

︎ 25/07/2024