Labor

About

Mano Leyrado – Magister in Fine Arts (Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin).

I’m a Creative Technologist specialized in art, culture & communication.

My hybrid background allows me to manage the entire project process, from conceptualization and project management to the technical production of communication assets.

Services

Advanced Digital Support: Deep experience in media design, covering video production, graphic design, web development, coding, CMS platforms, and more. AI tools integrated.

Production and Logistics: Hands-on assistance, preparation of artworks, installation, and de-installation of exhibitions.

Documentation and Communication: Content generation, support in project communication, and preparation of materials for publication.

ARCHIVE: Research

2026

m4n0.ai: Generative Image & Video archive

Generative Image, Generative Video, Personal Archive, Iterative Practice, Model Testing

m4n0.ai.archive is a standing collection of AI-generated images and videos made from 2023 to the present. It runs alongside the commissioned work, not after it: the archive is where models get tested, prompts get pushed, and the visual language behind the production cases takes shape.

The pieces are not one look. Engravings, creatures, plants, cityscapes and portraits sit next to each other, each tagged and dated, filterable by series, media type and time. Read as a whole, it tracks how the tools changed across four years, and how the practice changed with them.

Browse the full archive: m4n0.ai.archive

2025 — Berlin, Germany

pseudo-co. spawning alt-reality: Speculative Design & Spatial Strategy

Bio-digital Mutation, Capitalist Realism, Consumer Space, Post-digital Ecologies

Curatorial intervention in a mall center. Body mutation in consumer space. Uses the space as a laboratory for data swarms and subjects. Speculates on post-digital life via pseudo-commercial simulations. Transforms retail areas into narrative environments through capitalist residue.

In collaboration with Yun Kima

2024 — Vienna, Austria

Elenchus: Creative AI Video

AI Ethics, Generative AI, Neural Networks, Synthetic Media

Acquired by the Belvedere’s Bildarchiv & Ursula Blickle Video Archiv.

A video artwork on how we draw the line between natural and artificial. It centers on a recorded dialogue with an artificial agent whose answers, question by question, are pushed toward an absurd conclusion, staging the moment the category of “nature” collapses under its own definition.

The visuals are built as a chain of generated keyframes, not filmed footage. A reference set of video-game textures and 3D assets sets the starting point, and from it still frames are generated to follow each beat of the script. Runway animates between them: three frames per segment, moved through as a slow overhead flight, with the last frame of each export carried in as the first of the next. The result is one continuous descent through synthetic landscapes that never resolve into a real place.

Technical process:
1. Reference: Set of video-game textures and 3D assets.


2. Frames: stills generated to match the script, beat by beat.

3. Motion: Runway interpolating three frames per segment as an overhead flight, chained by reusing each segment’s final frame as the next one’s first.

2024 — Buenos Aires, Argentina

Nido: Cultural Analysis & Critical Writing

Cultural Trend Mapping, Institutional Intelligence, Networked Criticism, Strategic Content Distribution, Venice Biennale Ecosystems

Production of cultural reports and art criticism for the platform “Nido”. Specialized coverage of the 60th Venice Biennale, analyzing institutional trends and global art circuits. Focus on strategic content dissemination and critical documentation of contemporary art events.

2021 — ZK/U, Berlin, Germany

Ectobodies: Curatorial Research & Decolonial Discourses

Body Politics, Cultural Identity, Decoloniality, Field Research, Latin American Art

Research project developed during a residency stay at ZK/U Berlin.

Focuses on emerging Latin American artists and the body as a key element of study. Implements a methodology to exhibit colonial preconceptions and Western binaries (body vs idea). Explores the “ecto-” concept (bodies expelled from history and contained as nature) to reveal socio-political realities.

2021 — Berlin, Germany

Eindrücke: Active Archive & Memory Infrastructure

Archive Strategy, Heritage Culture, Migrant Narratives, Political Activism

Research-driven exhibition transforming a private family archive into a public political statement. Connects three generations of exile and migration with contemporary displacement. Manages cultural heritage through installations that bridge hidden and revealed history.

In collaboration with Ezequiel Monteros & Sandra Feferbaum Siemsen.

2017-2021 — Palacio Barolo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

CPU (Contemporary Processes Unit): Experimental Curatorial Lab & Research Platform

Art & Tech Discourse, Art Bunker, Radical Curation, Site-specific

Founded with Boris Aiub as a platform to subvert established notions of aesthetic discourse and the socio-political implications of technology. Developed experimental exhibition formats from a site-specific context to push curatorial boundaries and technological discourses.

2019 — Berlin, Germany

Salvajes ‘Contemporary Monkey’: Identity Mapping & Cultural Ecosystems

Cultural Homogenization., Identity Narratives, Locality, Urban Anthropologies

Multidisciplinary festival celebrating the Berlin-Buenos Aires sistership. Mapped self-legitimized artistic circuits outside mass-market nomenclature. Explores Argentine identity as a culture hybrid layers where nature and industry merge.

2019 — ZK/U, Berlin, Germany

Artmeldung: Field Research & Relational Mapping

Data Mapping, Institutional Critique, Migrant Networks, Symbolic Exchange

Research project on the Argentine artistic community in Berlin. Appropriated institutional forms (Anmeldung) to map migrant artistic insertion. Systematized displacement and reconstruction of autonomy into sociological and curatorial data.

2018 — Belgrade, Serbia

Monitor 0717 [M0717]: Data Intelligence & Relational Mapping

Data Storytelling, Database Art, Information Plasticity, Social Archives

Investigation of databases as a reflection of contemporary society. Mapped a social graph of 150 agents through digital records and objects. Displayed via random-access web archive and physical exhibition. Uses data to reveal hidden social structures.