Multisensory experiences, music and digital arts at the MIRA Festival
For two days, Fira de Barcelona will be a centre of creation with a futuristic air.
Perhaps these days you have passed through Ideal and have attended some of the immersive projections announcing the next edition, on 8 and 9 November, of the MIRA Festival of digital arts. It is one of the occasional proposals that the festival has distributed around the city as an aperitif. On Friday and Saturday, however, the main courses arrive. The Fira's Montjuïc site becomes an exhibition of this art of the future that we already have here.
MIRA is a festival dedicated to both digital arts and contemporary music that has been held annually in Barcelona since 2011. It works in that shared territory between art and digital culture, and offers as a result from live audiovisuals to concerts, installations, performances, 360-degree projections, DJ sets and conferences.
Among this year’s proposals there are two installations that are world premieres. One is Photons, by Barcelona-based Eyesberg. In this light sculpture, two LED screens face each other, creating a dialogue between light and itself. The other is ECHO, by the creative studio specialising in video mapping and interactive experiences VPM, presented in collaboration with Cultura Inquieta. It is a light and sound installation with which you can interact with.
These are just two of the installations at the festival, where you can see works created at the IED Barcelona Centre Superior de Disseny or by artists such as Maxime Houot (don't miss MA), Penique Productions and Oscar Zabala (ALTAR), or Raquel Meyers and Niklas Strom, who show us what can be achieved with technologies considered obsolete: from the Commodore 64 to this teletext so evident in next year's line-up. Marc Vilanova promises, at Cascade, a unique sensorial experience that takes us into the world of infrasounds, while Silvia Sánchez & The Spyglass present a proposal on imperfection and beauty entitled Evolució. Xavi Bové Studio also brings Lunar Oscillations to MIRA. What relates you to the cosmos? A moving installation will make you think.
360-degree projections in the immersive DOME of MIRA, a post-festival closing show (on the 10th at Sala Apolo) and a musical programme with performances by Aire presenting the new album Opening Scene; by the experimental musician and multidisciplinary artist Lorenzo Senni; People May You Know, the project of the composer, DJ and keyboard player Susana Hernández (Ylia) and Francisco Mejía (Phran), among many others, are part of a wide and interesting programme that showcases talents from Poblenou and the rest of the world, such as, for example, the Australian audiovisual artist Robin Fox, who brings to the festival a spectacular Laser Show that you shouldn't miss.
If you want to come and discover the art of the future, don't miss the MIRA Festival of digital arts, but before you come check the website for more information.