15th Anniversary Edition Underway This Weekend

The Mira Digital Arts Festival is celebrating its 15th year with a two-day showcase of avant-garde electronic music and digital art at Fira Montjuïc in Barcelona. The 2026 edition runs from Friday 6th November to Saturday 7th November, featuring 31 acts across two main stages and an expanded digital art programme. This year’s theme draws on the metaphor of a descent into the deep sea, symbolising underground culture. The festival has curated a lineup that blends pioneering electronic musicians with boundary-pushing visual artists, reinforcing Barcelona’s status as a hub for digital creativity.

Friday Line-Up Features Arca and Shygirl

Friday 6th November opens with performances starting at 17:30. Del Gesù kicks off the evening at 18:00 on the Voll-Damm stage, followed by Corprès at 19:00 on the DICE stage. Grand River performs at 19:30 on Voll-Damm, while ML Buch takes the DICE stage at 20:30. At the same time, Fennesz & Lillevan present a live audiovisual interpretation of Endless Summer on the Voll-Damm stage. Weed420 performs at 21:35 on DICE, ahead of Tortoise, the influential Chicago post-rock and electronica group, who play at 22:15.

Arca presents her first album since the KICK pentalogy, featured in a new audiovisual live show.

Óldo Érreve follows at 22:30 on DICE with IMAGO Teōsinte, a visual performance linking body, technology and ancestral memory. Ryoichi Kurokawa presents an immersive audiovisual set at 23:15, leading into Shygirl’s headline performance at midnight, enhanced by visuals from Barcelona-based studio Onionlab. Arca headlines at 01:15 on the Voll-Damm stage, presenting her new work. Ear and Tutu with VJ Roc follow, with DATAPUNK (Hybrid) and Helena Hauff closing the night with a DJ set starting at 03:30.

Digital Art Installations Explore Nature and Technology

  • Pinar Yoldas’ An Ecosystem of Excess imagines mutations needed for life in the Pacific plastic island
  • Sarabiotic’s Evolutionary Signals generates ocean-inspired life forms where organic and technological merge
  • Andreas Lutz presents Capture/Resemble, an interactive kinetic sculpture that learns from audience expressions
  • Marc Arnela’s AEDOSSYNTH features artificial heads with synthetic singing voices
  • Students from La Salle - Universitat Ramon Llull present Inspiria, a 3D ecosystem reacting to human breath

Onionlab also transforms the main stage with Resonant Field, an audio-reactive light installation extending across the dance floor. Ferran Belmon creates live visuals for Nicola Cruz’s AV set, while VJ Roc collaborates with Tutu.

Accessibility and Transport

Fira Montjuïc is accessible for people with reduced mobility, with ramps, lifts and level access throughout. The venue is located on Avinguda Maria Cristina, next to Plaça d’Espanya. The nearest metro station is Espanya, served by lines 1 and 3, and multiple bus routes stop nearby. Full stage times and venue details are available at modofestival.es.

Sources: La Vanguardia, modofestival.es, loop.fm.