MIRA Festival closes its fifth edition with an attendance of 4.700 spectators and students

Among the spectators who attended the Arts Santa Monica and the Fabra and Coats Factory, as well as the students who attended the Fulldome workshop, The fifth edition of MIRA – Live Visual Arts Festival has included 4.700 assistants.

MIRA – Live Visual Arts Festival, which has been celebrated 30 from October to 7 November in Barcelona, has closed its fifth edition with 4.700 assistants. Figure that corresponds to the spectators of the free activities that were held on the days 30 y 31 October in October in Arts Santa Monica, to the students of the workshop dedicated to Fulldome technology, corresponding to the days 2, 3 y 4 November, and to those attending MIRA at the Fabra i Coats Factory on Friday 6 and on saturday 7 November.

The Fabra i Coats building, which is part of the Creation Factories circuit of the Barcelona City Council, has once again been the headquarters of MIRA 2015. The central warehouse of the factory, with more than 1.000 square meters, has hosted the festival stage, while a warehouse attached to the main building has been used.

For your part, the cultural center of the Government of Catalonia, Arts Santa Monica, has joined the festival once again to host conferences and live shows whose objective is the dissemination of visual arts and technology. The Razzmatazz room has been the space where the concerts of this festival at The Loft and Lo*li*ta have concluded.

MIRA – Live Visual Arts Festival is an annual event where underground electronic music merges with visual art. Includes concerts, facilities, conferences and workshops, while allowing the creation of new projects and supporting the relationship between groups, associations and artists linked to the field of visual arts. The common thread of MIRA is technological innovation applied to different artistic fields..

AV art installations

Among the shows that could be seen in this fifth edition, Reflections and Entropia stood out.

The first a Live AV in its purest form, created by Takami Nakamoto and French visual artist Sébastien Benoit, where the music, The strobes and LEDs are synchronized and have been generated in real time, combining different techniques (analog batteries, electronic music, mapping, LEDs and strobes) and where the visual part is the explosion of light itself since there are no screens.

Entropia is an immersive audiovisual show where sound has been combined with pixel mapping and 360º projection. An experience that has been produced by the Société des Arts Technologiques de Montréal and that has premiered for the first time in Europe on the occasion of MIRA. A show created by Fraction, Louis-Philippe St-Arnault, Graphic Nature and Creation Ex Nihilo.

In the section of audiovisual facilities, MIRA has had different projects such as Timée – The music of the spheres, created by artists Guillaume Marmin (music) and Philip Gordiani (visuals), inspired by the dialogue Timaeus, by Plato. An immersive piece that develops the old philosophical concept of the Music of the Spheres: projectors, in it, light and darkness have made up its main immersive characteristic with the aim of making attendees feel surrounded, avoiding screens and seeking light.

The Swiss collective AV Exciters, formed by architects and designers, has created an exclusive installation for MIRA 2015 called MIRA Alas, a kinetic sculpture of iridescent LEDs that was located on the ceiling of the main room of the Fabra i Coats and that moved to the rhythm of the music. A piece of kinetic art that allowed the factory's architecture to be transformed.

The Barcelona studios ProtoPixel and Tigrelab came with the interactive installation TripTik, which allowed the public to create patterns of light and music by dipping their hands into containers of water. The installation combined LED technology and projection to create multi-layered lighting effects representing movement., depth and color.

Alcove is a lighting and visual installation, created by Supermafia & Field detector, and designed so that the public could watch it from outside the room and listen to it through headphones. This is a project that has never been exhibited outside of Switzerland until now and that has had to be adapted to the MIRA exhibition space..

Wide/Side has been another of the interactive installations that have been seen at MIRA and has been created by the researcher and digital artist João Martinho Moura. The objective is for a series of sensors to capture the silhouette of the viewer's body to reproduce it in a generative way in the vertical bars that form the installation..

Finally, the artists Anna Carreras and Lali Barrière presented Genera Esfera, that allowed the public to become a VJ of generative visuals; while Non Human Device #002, created by the Boris Chimp design studio 504, invited the public to interact with sound and visuals in real time.

MIRA Dome

As already publicamos a Digital AV Magazine, The big novelty this year has been the MIRA Dome stage by adidas Originals, a space in the shape of a geodesic dome dedicated to artistic projects with 360º surround projections and sound.

El MIRA Dome by adidas originals, co-produced by MIRA and Eyesberg Studio, It was located in the patio of Fabra i Coats and, along with the main stage and the Sala Bota, They configured the festival spaces in the Sant Andreu factory complex.

This space hosted part of the programming organized for the days 6 y 7 with live audiovisual shows and projections from around the world, as well as the workshops held the previous days. In this edition, The section dedicated to MIRA training revolved around immersive experiences and Fulldome projections.

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