MIRA Festival — MIRA 2024: Digital Program

Three weeks before the celebration of the festival next November 8 and 9, we announce the entire program in digital arts.

Let’s start with the installations: Photons, by the Barcelona multimedia art studio Eyesberg, a light sculpture in which two LED screens face each other creating a space where light dialogues with itself, challenging the spatial perception of the observer; and ECHO, the installation by the creative studio specializing in video mapping and interactive experiences VPM, presented in collaboration with Cultura Inquieta, a light and sound installation that explores how light and sound can resonate and amplify in space, inviting viewers to experiment between the visible and the audible in real time, will be two of the world premieres we will be able to experience at MIRA 2024.

IED Barcelona Center Superior de Disseny will be present at the festival with two artistic installations that explore the intersection between art, technology and human experience: Distorted Reality is an immersive work that, thanks to the use of innovative techniques such as triangular mapping and point cloud animations, delve into the complex relationship between the natural world and digital perception. Brief Encounters, on the other hand, offers a poetic exploration of the ephemerality of human relationships based on air traffic patterns.

Maxime Houot, member of the artistic collective Collectif Coin, will present at MIRA 2024 as a premiere in Spain his striking installation MA, a work that through a light and mechanical choreography transforms the space into a unique sensory experience, launching a reflection on the perception and construction of our reality.

Also in this edition, Penique Productions and Oscar Zabala join forces to present ALTAR, an immersive installation that creates a club within the festival. The result is an environment that evolves throughout the day, going from a more ambient atmosphere to a complete club experience that will feature its own programming. Artists KARCELEN, Ben Kaczor and Lb Honne, along with Oscar Zabala himself will offer LIVEs and DJ sets exploring genres such as deep and minimal house.

Voll-Damm, main sponsor of the festival, will add a playful touch with its Double or Nothing experience, the Game by Rachel Meyers + Niklas Ström. Meyers, known for her work with “obsolete” technologies such as the Commodore 64 and teletext, immerses us in a pixelated universe full of nostalgia that takes as its setting the MIRA and Fira de Montjuïc. In collaboration with Niklas Ström, Meyers has created this interactive game that celebrates that universal moment of any festival: grabbing a beer at the bar and trying to get a good seat at a concert without spilling it.

To close the program, emerging and consolidated proposals of the local creative fabric add their proposals. Like LOWKEYMOVES, the creative studio from Barcelona, ​​arrives at MIRA 2024 with Órbita, an innovative extended reality video booth. This installation will allow attendees to immerse themselves in 3D environments and create personalized 360° videos in real time; sound and visual artist Marc Vilanova will present at MIRA 2024 his installation Cascade, a unique sensory experience that takes us into the invisible world of infrasound, the sounds that waterfalls produce and that are essential for the orientation of many migratory birds; and the project Silvia Sánchez & The Spyglass presents a proposal that celebrates imperfection and beauty in female diversity in Evolution from Imperfection: art, virtual reality and neuroscience through seven paintings with virtual reality technology.

Finally, Xavi Bové Studio presents Lunar Oscillations. The studio, recognized for signing unique audiovisual experiences, explores in this work the relationship between human beings and the cosmos through a kinetic installation that recreates a universe of stars and moons in constant movement, inspired by the effects of the moon on the Earth.

MIRA Dome by BlendBCN – Immersive films, the special programming of MIRA’s emblem

As always, the MIRA Dome will offer immersive experiences with 360º projections, this time by BlendBCN, a new international event that will bring together industry leaders and emerging talents on November 8th at Fira Montjuïc. With keynote speeches from the likes of GucciGhost, Misan Harriman and Reeps 100, avant-garde art installations and transformative workshops, BlendBCN will be the perfect place to get inspired and connect with other creatives. The event creates synergy with MIRA also participating in MIRA Dome 2024: first, with Defasten + SØS Gunver Ryberg presenting MIRRORED MADNESS, in which an ecosystem of cybernetic organisms unfolds in front of the viewer’s eyes creating a new and hypnotic digital bioarchitecture, and Desilence & Suzanne Ciani presents THE RHYTHM OF THE OCEAN, a tribute to the ocean exploring its duality between beauty and mystery, as well as its important role as a catalyst of life.

In addition to all of this, we have also announced that Eyesberg will be in charge of the visuals for Toccororo’s DJ sets and Craig Richards and Massó will be in charge of the visuals for British Murder Boys.
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