By José Manuel Ibañez
How did an ancient object become a digital gesture? A short history of the page, the feed, and an experiment that turns private scrolling into a collective form of reading.
By José Manuel Ibañez
Shaheer Tarar’s The Compression Zone moves between live reading, video game, autobiography and essay to explore compression as both a computational process and a way of perceiving the world. In this conversation, Tarar discusses images and data, maps and borders, narrative, and the infrastructures that shape how we understand places and people. From his childhood encounters with computers in Lahore, the conversation moves toward the increasingly automated visual culture of the present.
By Mudmap Editorial
On 7 August 2026, we held the second edition of Collective Scroll at Stinky Truth in Berlin. This time, the scroll moved through contemporary online beauty culture: lookmaxxing, surgerycore, beauty scores, filters, algorithms and the strange visual languages through which faces and bodies are increasingly measured, compared and transformed.
By Lucy Aukafolau and José Manuel Ibáñez
Kevin B. Lee on desktop documentary, thinking with Harun Farocki, why infinite storage produces mass forgetting, and cinema's ongoing case of near-death.
By José Manuel Ibáñez
Postfootball, the new book by Juan Pablo Meneses, uses the World Cup as a lens for surveillance, platforms, and the disappearance of the collective gaze.
By Mudmap Editorial
A format that takes a medium designed for private consumption and displaces it into a shared space. On 27 May at Galerie Linger, we held the first session.