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Lucia Rebolino, 2026

HTML: Hide Through Model Lies is a web-based performative piece and an investigation into how computational aesthetics can be rethought as critical tools, and how “counter-modelling” might offer alternatives to dominant forms of computational realism.

Using the internet as an architectural medium, built through interfaces and software that continuously shape perception and reality, she formats the research according to the internal structure of webpages. The project develops as a demo for building a body of work between scientific research and experimental digital media, expanding the ways research can take form across spatial thinking and artistic practice.

The internet becomes both a site for investigation and a space in which the spatial and computational dimensions of lecturing can serve as a performative artistic medium. Through browser-based and streaming environments, Rebolino is interested in modelling spaces where research can unfold live across both physical and digital audiences, opening datasets and information as forms of public science.

Within HTML, she inverts the forensic gaze from physical space toward digital space, mapping computational infrastructures and the web’s branched spatiality. Violence and conflict in the digital age often unfold computationally before materializing spatially. The project asks how these complex computational spaces can be choreographed to render visible the conflicts embedded within them.

Lucia Rebolino is an artist, architect, and computational designer. She conceives her practice as a space where different branches of science and design can conceptualize, critique and visualize new aesthetics, drawing attention to complex and invisible systems. She is a researcher with Forensic Architecture in London, focusing on environmental justice investigations.

Her work on prediction and climate models has been featured in e-flux and exhibited at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale (2025) and the Busan Museum of Art in South Korea (2026). Her research-based artistic practice explores technology-driven performances, and she has lectured at international institutions including MoMA, MediaLab Matadero, Columbia University, the Royal College of Art, and ETH Zurich.