La Salle – Universitat Ramon Llull is taking part in a new edition of the MIRA Digital Arts Festival, held from 6 to 8 November at Fira Barcelona Montjuïc, with five projects created by students, faculty, researchers and alumni from the campus. Combining performances and interactive installations, the projects explore new forms of expression through technology and digital arts.
The projects stem from collaboration across disciplines and bring together artistic practice, research and technological experimentation. Together, they offer five different approaches that invite audiences to question how we perceive, inhabit and interact with physical and digital environments.
Two performances combining acoustics and immersive technologies
AEDOSSYNTH is a live audiovisual performance created by researchers Marc Arnela and Jesús Vaquerizo (I AM JAS). The project combines electronic music and real-time vocal synthesis with animated artificial heads projected on a large scale. The result is a dialogue between voice, body and machine that explores new possibilities for sound and visual creation.
The second performance, Inspiria, was created by Alberto Benavent, Andrea Naharro, Lerie Pemanagpo and Lizzie Keigler, students on the Master's Degree in Digital Arts and Creative Technologies. Using the performers' breathing as a starting point, the piece creates a 3D visual ecosystem that reacts in real time, connecting body movement with the digital environment. The project was developed with the mentorship of Daniel Sabio (The Glad Scientist), Xavi Maixenchs, Tatiana Halbach and Søren Christensen (Desilence).
Three installations exploring our relationship with the digital environment
Alongside the two performances, La Salle-URL is presenting three installations developed by students and alumni from different programmes across the campus. From different perspectives, the works explore how technology transforms our perception of reality, the expression of the body and our relationship with the world.
G.L.I.T.C.H. (Ghost Layers in the Construction of History), by Anna Zabrodskaia, a student on the Bachelor's Degree in Digital Arts, reflects on how truth is constructed in an age of information overload. Through an interactive experience, visitors enter keywords that trigger the collection of news headlines. These texts are transformed into a generative visual landscape, highlighting how information is filtered, multiplied and shapes our perception of reality.
Humans is an interactive installation by Aleix Bonet, Marc Català and Marta Gras, students on the Bachelor's Degree in Design and Creation of Interactive Products. The project features human figures without individualised facial features, expressing emotions and attitudes through body language and posture. It invites audiences to reflect on presence, identity and the paradox between digital hyperconnectivity and personal isolation. The work was part of the second edition of Projecta’t, a programme run by Brooder Lab, La Salle-URL's incubator for emerging content and talent, with the support of the Government of Catalonia. It builds on an idea developed by Architecture and Engineering students as part of Llum BCN 2026.
Els Cignes Salvatges is a contemporary reinterpretation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, created by Laia Tarragó, an alumna of the Bachelor's Degree in Digital Arts, and Pol Martín. The project revisits the aesthetic of traditional puppet theatres through hand-painted images that are digitised and animated, accompanied by an original soundtrack. It champions storytelling as a form of collective memory and invites audiences to rediscover the pleasure of listening to and sharing stories. Laia Tarragó developed an earlier adaptation as part of the first edition of Brooder Lab's Projecta’t programme.
A space for experimentation and interdisciplinary collaboration
La Salle-URL's presence at the MIRA Digital Arts Festival reinforces its role as a space where art, design, architecture and engineering come together to explore new forms of creation. This interdisciplinary approach brings technology and humanistic thinking together in creative processes that open up new perspectives and encourage audiences to question established ideas.
