ArtFutura, the digital art and new media festival of reference in Spain, presented its sixteenth edition at the Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona. Whilst in the previous edition ArtFutura covered the superposition of both the virtual and the physical world, this year the festival explored the future of objects and environments in the age of data flows.
The event offered workshops, conferences, performances, a wide exhibition of drawings by Grangel Studio (“The Corpse Bride") and three installations: "Desaparecen primero las palabras" by Thomas Charveriat, "Fagus se Desnuda" by Emiliano Labrador and "Human All Rights Reserved" by Montse Arbelo and Joseba Franco. In addition ArtFutura presented for the first time in Spain the amazing “Strandbeest” (Creatures of the Beach) by the Dutch Theo Jansen: immense robotic sculptures that use wind power as a source of energy.