CAC in Lisbon | Weight of Data + CAC Books series soft launch
Artists: Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne, Anna Engelhardt, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Selena Savić & Gordan Savičić, Most Dismal Swamp, jiawen uffline
Curators: Xin Bi & Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás
Website Design: OooO Studio
Space Design: Daxu Cao
Graphic Design:page of____
Local Production: Francisco Duarte Soares & FDS – Produção Cultural, Unip
Produced by: Chronus Art Center
Exhibition Opening:2025.10.2 (Thursday) – 2025.10.4 (Saturday)
Location: MAC/CCB – Museum of Contemporary Art and Architecture Center, Praça do Império, 1449-003 Lisboa, Portugal
This autumn in Lisbon, Chronus Art Center (CAC) will present two initiatives that reflect our commitment to media art, research, and publishing: the exhibition Weight of Data and the soft launch of the inaugural volume of CAC Books on Posthuman, Ecology, and the New Commons.
Opening on October 2nd, Weight of Data is presented as an independent project of the 7th Lisbon Architecture Triennale. This hybrid exhibition explores the speculative presence and spectral materiality of digital objects in shaping urban landscapes through five recent digital art projects. As smart cities appear lighter and more frictionless, they mask the hidden weight of wireless waves, algorithmic governance, and extractive infrastructures. The works trace how these invisible forces haunt urban space—shaping perceptions, emotions, and decisions—while entangling online and offline realms.
Weight of Data features artworks from Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne, Anna Engelhardt, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Selena Savić & Gordan Savičić, Most Dismal Swamp, jiawen uffline, curated by Xin Bi and Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás. The exhibition will be on view in Lisbon from October 2 to December 8, 2025, with an online version launching simultaneously and remaining accessible for the duration of the Triennale.
Alongside the exhibition, CAC will host the soft launch of CAC Books on Posthuman, Ecology, and the New Commons, a new publishing platform dedicated to media art, theory, and interdisciplinary research. Titled Mutant Percepts and Virtual Ecologies: A Journey, this first Chinese-English bilingual publication marks the 10th anniversary of Chronus Art Center. Building on a decade of exhibitions and educational programmes that have engaged deeply with global posthuman discourse and bringing together essays, manuscripts, and archival materials from artists, theorists, curators and scholars—this anthology serves both as an archival gesture and as a forward-looking provocation: an invitation to contemplate the mutable contours of artistic practice in an era of acceleration.
Together, these two projects represent a new step for CAC, deepening our engagement with the global discourse on art, technology, and society by bridging exhibition-making and publishing to foster dialogue across art, architecture, science, and philosophy.
