Human Entities 2026 – Conversation with Ratzo by Gabriel Abrantes
TUESDAY 5 MAY 2026 | 7PM |GRAND AUDITORIUM, FACULTY OF FINE ARTS, ULISBOA
Conversation with Ratzo
Gabriel Abrantes (Film-maker and artist)
Human Entities 2026: culture in the age of artificial intelligence, tenth edition.
Conversation with Ratzo
Gabriel Abrantes talks to Ratzo, the internet-bred rodent, about the post-enshittification era.
Gabriel Abrantes
Gabriel Abrantes (b. 1984, North Carolina, USA) is a filmmaker and artist. His films have premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, the Berlinale, Venice, and Locarno. In 2018, Diamantino, co-directed with Daniel Schmidt, won the Grand Prix at the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes. He has exhibited at Tate Britain, Palais de Tokyo, MAAT, and Serralves.
https://www.gabrielabrantes.com
The talk will be in English and followed by a Q&A session.
This event is part of Human Entities 2026: Culture in the age of artificial intelligence, tenth edition. Read more about the programme
All welcome, free entry, booking required
Organised by CADA (Jared Hawkey/Sofia Oliveira) in partnership with Lisbon Architecture Triennale and with the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon: Departments of Communication Design and Department Multimedia Arts, as part of Human Entities 2026: culture in the age of artificial intelligence, tenth edition (Public talks, May – June 2026); a program focused on technological change and its impacts, on the ways in which technology and culture influence each other.
CADA is funded by: República Portuguesa – Cultura, Juventude e Desporto / Direção-Geral das Artes
NOTE: Special needs
Access for people with physical disabilities is available upon request for 5 May. Please send an email to sofiaoliveiracada@proton.me with three days advance.
Hearing impairment: upon request speech-to-text software can be provided. Please send an email to sofiaoliveiracada@proton.me with three days advance.
This event may be photographed and filmed and subsequently made public.