Manuel Prados Sánchez
5 May 2025 – 31 January 2026
Manuel Prados (Seville, 1981) focuses his practice on artistic research and contextual art, while also working as a cultural mediator and producer. He has worked on contemporary cultural projects since 2005, organizing exhibitions and activities in museums and art centers, and collaborating with artists, curators and cultural agents.
His recent projects include INTRA. Preguntas a la Tierra y su género, a collaborative research on mining extractivism in the south of the peninsula and the environmental conflicts it has caused since the 19th century, and Arte en los límites de su percepción, an interdisciplinary project on the senses using a perspective that confronts art and science, the results of which can be seen in the documentary Espectro sensible (Sensitive Spectrum). These and other projects can be found on his website https://manuelprados.net.
From 2018 to 2022 he was part of the Medialab Prado team in Madrid as mediator and researcher of AVLab, Laboratorio de experimentación audiovisual. From 2005 to 2012 he was part of BNV Producciones in Seville, producing contemporary culture projects including the program Arte y pensamiento of the International University of Andalusia.
Project in residence
Promete@
Promete@ is a research project in art and new technologies that proposes a didactic approach to the idea of the sensitive machine.
The project is based on the construction of a prototype in which different types of sensors are integrated, which are capable of perceiving the conditions of an environment and converting them into data for subsequent interpretation and representation.
The process of building this prototype will serve to develop a series of didactic modules that can be developed both in formal educational environments and in informal educational environments.
Promete@ has a double educational function: to understand the way in which we perceive our reality (how our senses work and receive information from the outside) and to experiment with the capabilities of new technologies for the reception, recording and interpretation of information from within our context.
