Arts-based Research and Practice: The Case of Oracle Index Presented by Steffen Köhn & Nestor Siré

Arts-based Research and Practice:
The Case of Oracle Index
Presented by Steffen Köhn & Nestor Siré

Event Details
Date: February 11, 2026
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Venue: UP College of Media and Communication Auditorium
Admission: Free and open to the public

About the Presentation

Join us for an engaging presentation on co-creative artistic research practice featuring Oracle Index, the latest collaborative project by filmmaker and video artist Steffen Köhn (Aarhus University) and multimedia artist Nestor Siré (Havana/Amsterdam).

This presentation explores artistic research as a collaborative, speculative, and ethnographically grounded practice. The work builds on long-term relationships with research participants and treats speculation not as fiction detached from reality, but as a method for co-creating possible futures together with those who inhabit precarious, informal, and technologically uneven worlds.

Oracle Index is set in a speculative Havana infused with the crypto culture of the 2030s. This expanded cinematic narrative takes the form of an imaginary ethnography, envisioning a Cuba that adopts “futarchy”—a governance system based on prediction markets emerging from the transhumanist milieu—as the foundation of its late-stage planned economy. The project weaves together archival fragments from an anonymous anthropologist’s collection, including interviews, field notes, recordings from Cuban state television, social media excerpts, and dream diaries of underground La Bolita players.

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