TNRA at Fundación Telefónica

2026

I talked at Espacio Fundación Telefónica about The NeuroRight Arcades and its relation to digital rights.


The work is currently on view in Madrid until May 2026 as part of the exhibition Hoy es un buen día para hablar de Derechos Digitales, with outstanding works by United Visual Artists, Noemí Iglesias Barrios, Dries Depoorter, Theresa Reiwer, curated by Domestic Data Streamers.


The exhibition is open every day of the week. Some days, more than 100 visitors go through one of the full interactive introspective experiences. Over the full period, more than 10,000 people will have engaged with this Spanish version of the work.


The NeuroRight Arcades is a series of interactive installations built as game consoles with BCI (brain-computer-interface) headphones. Through live neurofeedback, visitors engage with questions around emerging neurotechnology and NeuroRights, within the broader context of digital rights.


The work draws on a set of proposed NeuroRights developed by the NeuroRights Initiative:


    - Mental Privacy
    - Personal Identity
    - Free Will
    - Equal Access to Mental Augmentation
    - Protection against Algorithmic Bia


Visitors complete an experience and receive a printout of their brain activity. At the same time, a tension emerges: the system that raises awareness also operates within the same logic it questions.