← Pablo Martinez Alcaraz

Rato
Penato

Rato Penato is the artistic identity of Pablo Martinez Alcaraz, operating at the intersection of research, activism, and technology, with human perception as both subject and method. Between realism and surrealism, the work uses ambiguity to question the systems we build, the realities we perceive, and the relationships that shape how we inhabit the world.

Works

01

participatory noise pollution map

QuietFuture.org

QuietFuture.org is a community-driven movement for making noise pollution visible. It invites people to record, map, and share the sounds that affect their daily lives, turning individual experiences of noise into collective evidence. Through public participation, environmental awareness, and digital mapping, the project exposes noise as an urban and social issue.

Everything below is the live public record, pulled from the project's own API each time this page is built. The halo around each pin is the length of the recording.

Casual walk — Traffic, Spain Eindhoven Airport — Aircraft, Netherlands Gran via — Traffic, Spain Incomprehensible noise — Neighbours, Spain Windows closed with traffic at Carrer d'Aragó — Traffic, Spain Noise from my bedroom — Traffic, Hungary Tráfico desde mi trabajo — Traffic, Argentina

Hear this

  • Casual walk

    traffic Spain 6 Aug 2026

    0:19
  • Eindhoven Airport

    aircraft Netherlands 12 Apr 2026

    0:11
  • Gran via

    traffic Spain 11 Apr 2026

    0:12
  • Incomprehensible noise

    neighbours Spain 10 Apr 2026

    0:29

3 more recordings on the map ↗

live 7 recordings4 countries13 minutes of noiseupdated 24 Aug 2026

open project ↗
02

3d interactive demonstrator · value-aligned building automation

The Alignment Office

A 3D interactive demonstrator about value alignment in smart building control. You act as the automation system and control shades, lighting, and thermostat settings in an office. The occupant has hidden preferences; when your actions conflict with what they value, they override the system.

The demo makes the problem tangible: future building automation should not only optimise energy use or generic comfort metrics. It must learn what people value in context — daylight, view, temperature, control, and agency — to avoid misalignment, overrides, and loss of trust.

The Alignment Office: a 3D office with an occupant at a desk, overlaid with automation controls and an alignment score

You become the building automation. Ten scenarios, one occupant, and every override is your mistake.

10 scenarioswebglruns in this page

open interactive demo ↗