What can be seen at ISEA 2022?

Barcelona becomes the capital of electronic art from this Friday until Thursday, June 16, with the arrival of the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA). The central axis of the meeting will be an extensive program of talks and round tables with leading experts in this field, dedicated to studying the infinite possibilities that arise from the combination of art, science, and technology. But there will also be activities open to the public and free of charge. Below, a selection of some of the more than fifty activities that can be enjoyed these days, both in Barcelona and in the rest of Catalonia.

• Drone show at Somorrostro Beach

The main and most anticipated event of ISEA 2022 will be the drone show by Flock Drone Art Barcelona. Combining technology, lights, and electronic music, a set of synchronized drones will offer for the first time in the Catalan capital an aerial show of these characteristics. On the night of Wednesday, June 15, at Somorrostro Beach.

• Mapping at the Sant Pau Modernist Enclosure

On Tuesday 14, Wednesday 15, and Thursday 16, the Sant Pau Modernist Enclosure will host the mapping Cité Mémoire. Its facade will be invaded by images, words and music, in a journey through the history of Montreal. This will pay tribute to the last venue of the symposium, affected by the arrival of covid, which forced it to be held entirely online. Sant Pau will also feature the exhibitionPossible, in which outstanding works from ISEA 2o22 will be displayed.

• Refik Anadol returns to Barcelona

Another essential event of the symposium will be the arrival of the interactive installation DïaloG to Plaza Joan Coromines of the CCCB. After the success of themappingat Casa Batlló, Refik Anadol returns to Barcelona. Accompanied by Maurice Benayoun, he will do so to explore themes such as alterity, strangeness, and immigration in a performative way. The work consists of two pieces facing each other in an environment that is not their own and that will have to adapt and build common knowledge. It can be seen from Saturday 11 to Saturday 18.

• Exhibitions in Santa Mònica and La Capella

The main exhibition organized for ISEA 2022 is in Santa Mònica. Under the titleThe irruption, the exhibition will open a dialogue about the complex circumstances the planet is experiencing after the arrival of the pandemic. Another of the members of the exhibition program will be La Capella withWhat is possible and what is not, in which the options offered by technological advances and their own limits will be addressed.

• 100 years of science fiction

A traveling exhibition through the network of Municipal Libraries will analyze the history of the science fiction genre through literature, cinema, and television. The city's libraries will also host another traveling exhibition on the ethics of machines. Both can be seen until the end of November.

• Screams of endangered and extinct birds

Birding the futureis a work of art in progress that explores current extinction rates and looks at birds and their warning capacity in the face of environmental change. The installation invites one to feel the cries of endangered and extinct birds. At Eina, from this Friday until next. The university center also organizes a workshop this Friday to encourage the use of a text editor as a tool to create visual textures from typographic symbols.

• Listening to endangered sound heritage

Sound is severely threatened in many parts of the world.Sounds in Causeregisters the sound heritage of some parts of Latin America, where irreversible changes are expected in the short and medium term due to the economic growth being registered. The Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) will be the space where a multi-focal installation of eight loudspeakers will be located next Wednesday, the 15th, to hear these sounds that will one day disappear.

• On the conquest of light with Rubèn Verdú and Jordi Serrallonga

The Tecla Sala Art Center in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat will delve into the curiosity of the human primate to find light. It will do so through a meeting between the artist Rubèn Verdú and the archaeologist and explorer from L'Hospitalet, Jordi Serrallonga. It will coincide with the exhibitionAfeli's Midday Mealsthat Verdú is presented at Tecla Sala and can be visited until early July.

• Concert of a cyborg family in Mataró

Using bodies as instruments and, in addition, listening to the heartbeats of an embryo and its parents. Moon Ribas and Quim Girón offer this concert of a familycyborgat M|A|C Mataró Art Contemporani this Friday.