What stories do our machines tell and what do they remember?
From Looks Like New by MEDLab
October 23, 2025 · 56 min
About this episode
Camila Galaz discusses the intersections of technology, memory, and historical storytelling in the digital age.
In this month’s episode of Looks Like New, hosted by MEDLab’s associate director Júlia Martins Rodrigues, we speak with Camila Galaz, an interdisciplinary artist, editor, and researcher whose work explores the intersections of technology, memory, and historical storytelling. Galaz is the founder of Structured Knowledge, a nonfiction narrative consultancy helping creatives and thinkers translate complex ideas into meaningful public-facing work. She is also co-creator of Our Friend the Computer, a globally ranked podcast uncovering underrepresented histories of computing; an editor at the Millennium Film Journal; and co-founder of Superkilogirls, a creative research lab examining the material infrastructures of computing and their entanglement with women’s labor. Her projects have been supported by the New Museum, the Nieuwe Instituut, Creative Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, and the Media Archaeology Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder. In this episode, Galaz reflects on how storytelling, archives, and experimental media can reveal the hidden human histories behind our digital world.
People in this episode
Host: Júlia Martins Rodrigues
Guest: Camila Galaz
Topics covered
- technology
- memory
- historical storytelling
- digital world
- experimental media
Keywords
- storytelling
- archives
- digital history
- technology
- memory
- experimental media
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Structured Knowledge, Our Friend the Computer, Millennium Film Journal, Superkilogirls, New Museum, Nieuwe Instituut, Creative Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Media Archaeology Lab
Places: University of Colorado Boulder
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