Counter-modeling: A performance lecture by Lucia Rebolino

Artists

Lucia Rebolino

A web-based performance exploring climate modelling through digital aesthetics and architectural thinking. Moving between early numerical forecasting and contemporary synthetic intelligence, Counter-modeling challenges the aesthetics of computational realism, presenting climate prediction as a site of tension between technological development and climate futures, shaped by power, uncertainty, and abstraction.

Lucia Rebolino is an artist, architect, and computational designer weaving science and art into counter-cartography, data, and web-based aesthetics. 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 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. Her research-based artistic practice explores technology-driven screen performances, and she has lectured at cultural and academic institutions including MoMA, MediaLab Matadero, Columbia University, the Royal College of Art, and ETH Zurich.

This event is part of the Phreaking Collective exhibition programme, Does Cloud Compute (ever) Precipitate?