The program
The online phase runs Sundays at 10:00 AM EST via Google Meet. Each session builds toward a new visual language that honors Medellín while imagining new entry points into emerging technology.
How Colombia uses art as an instrument of community education, and what the silletera tradition teaches us about carrying something unfamiliar into a community.
Designing for a community that has lived through both hardship and rebuilding, and respecting the instinct to be careful about systems that promise change.
How Colombian art communicates without explanation, from Botero to Débora Arango to Jacanamijoy, and what that teaches us about communicating technology.
How technology is reshaping Colombia and the Global South, and the artist’s role in closing the gap between powerful tools and the communities they’ve bypassed.
Mini presentations of work in progress, collective reflection, and preparing the digital and physical pieces for the public exhibition in Medellín.
A public experience designed for the people of Medellín, while the city is still in a creative mindset: the beginning of a lasting relationship between these technologies and the community.
A dedicated session covers wallets, minting, and publishing on-chain for anyone new to web3. It’s a supplement, not a requirement; lack of technical experience is never a barrier to full participation.
Artists work in small cohorts of 3–4, led by a residency director, meeting weekly outside the Sunday sessions. Alumni advisors from previous residencies offer drop-in peer mentorship on tools and process.
A collaborative mural workshop, led by Efdot, Luko, YuZapata, and Judasaca, carries the cohort’s work into the street, in the Colombian tradition of public art as community education.
