La Salle Campus Barcelona, founding member of Universitat Ramon Llull, is taking part in a new edition of the MIRA Digital Arts Festival with a broad representation of students, alumni, professors, and researchers from the Digital Arts area. The festival, held on November 7 and 8 at Fira Montjuïc in Barcelona, reflects the campus’s commitment to digital arts, creativity, and the audiovisual and immersive sector. Focused on the intersection between art and digital culture, MIRA offers a carefully curated program featuring live audiovisual performances, concerts, immersive installations, performances, 360º projections, DJ sets, and talks.
La Salle-URL presents Nereides Efímeres and RABIA
In the installations section, La Salle-URL showcases projects by students from the Degree in Digital Arts and the Master of Science in Digital Arts and Creative Technologies that explore experimentation in virtual environments, audiovisual creation, and interactive narratives. RABIA, by master’s alumna Sandy Davis, is an interactive installation that transforms repressed anger into expressive strength through sound, movement, and reactive visuals, in a space with sensor-equipped punching bags and a collective archive of AI-generated screams and hits. Meanwhile, Nereides Efímeres is an immersive video game inspired by artist Sofia Crespo, transporting the audience to a dreamlike, underwater universe where the biological and the digital intertwine to question how we imagine new forms of life. The authors of this installation are Laia Rueda, Aina Rodríguez, Marta Rabella, and Maria Cuní.
From the IASlab to the stage: research and artistic creation
Two researchers from La Salle-URL working at the Interactive Arts & Science Laboratory (IASlab), the Europe’s pioneering lab in transdisciplinary research and artistic creation, are part of this year’s MIRA lineup. Albert Barqué-Duran (Albert.DATA), coordinator of the Master of Science in Digital Arts and Creative Technologies, presents Synapticon, a 30-minute live A/V performance that combines neurohacking, brain–computer interfaces, and AI models, inviting the audience to dive into an immersive experience that challenges the boundaries between surveillance, cognition, and creation. Meanwhile, Jesús Vaquerizo (I AM JAS), master’s alumni and researcher in acoustics, presents Trencadisc, an immersive audiovisual project that blends electronic music, acoustics, real-time visuals, and Gaudí’s 'trencadís' technique. By reinterpreting organic forms through technology, it creates a poetic dialogue between tradition and innovation.
MIRA.MOV features professors, alumni, and Brooder Lab
MIRA.mov “Exploring Visual Languages” is a series of immersive screenings curated by the MIRA Digital Arts Festival, organized during the week leading up to the event. It explores contemporary digital culture by re-evaluating new and old ways of thinking through innovative formats and narratives, and showcasing distinctive characteristics of digital media that reflect the state of the art and its aesthetics through techniques such as CGI, audiovisual immersivity, game engines, and 3D digital animation.
The program includes digital artist and Digital Arts alumni Laia Tarragó, who, with the support of Brooder Lab, the content and emerging talent incubator of La Salle-URL, presents Els cignes salvatges, an immersive adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale. On the other side, the digital art studio of Xavi Bové, Director of both the Degree and Master’s in Digital Arts, presents POSIDÒNIA, a multidisciplinary project that highlights the crucial role of Posidonia oceanica, a seagrass species endemic to the Mediterranean Sea that is essential to marine ecosystems.
Through all these collaborations, and as part of a long-standing partnership, MIRA and La Salle-URL continue to strengthen the digital art ecosystem in Barcelona and contribute to its European and global projection.
