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Generative Dialogues at Mira Festival
The Generative Art Museum presented "Generative Dialogues" at MIRA Festival, a digital arts and contemporary music festival held annually in Barcelona since 2011. The festival offers a carefully curated program featuring live audiovisual shows, concerts, immersive installations, performances, 360º screenings, DJ sets, and talks.
Generative art is something profoundly special. At first glance, it may appear as a moving image, a beautiful video unfolding before your eyes. Yet behind that apparent simplicity lies a vast, invisible process: systems of logic, code, and chance composing infinite visual symphonies. In an effort to bring generative art into wider and more tangible contexts, The Generative Art Museum (TGAM) presents Generative Dialogues, an installation that invites audiences to experience generative art in its most expanded and temporal form.
The installation consists of four metallic structures, each supporting four screens powered by four high-resolution computers. Together they generate the computational energy behind sixteen generative algorithms displayed across sixteen synchronized screens. This constellation becomes a silent conversation, a dialogue between machine and human, between algorithm and perception, allowing the beauty of generative processes to speak without a single word.
Every minute, a new artwork emerges, born from a random seed and synchronized precisely to UTC time. Each piece is a fleeting moment in an infinite stream of possibilities, a visual echo that will likely never appear again. In this rhythm of continuous creation and disappearance, we witness the poetry of code: order and chaos intertwined, forever generating new worlds.
Generative Dialogues is TGAM’s first communal installation, designed, built, and curated by Xavier Hernández in close collaboration with all participating artists. It is an evolving conversation about art, systems, and the beauty of the unseen mechanisms that shape the visual language of our digital age.
The version for MIRA Festival of Generative Dialogues is the first of many editions to come, that featured the works of:
- “XOX” by Kim Asendorf
- "Crush" by Andreas Gysin
- "Impuls i Traçat II" by Anna Carreras (New Art Foundation)
- “Sugar Rainbows” by Princess Tutti
- “Mishmash” by Andy Duboc (Responsive Dreams 2023)
- “Printers” by Galo Cañizares
- “dislocaciones” by lilocde (Responsive Dreams 2023)
- “Threads” by Anna Lucia
- “Ratio” by Julian Hespenheide (Responsive Dreams 2025)
- “Blind Spots” by shaderism
Published: 2025-11-09
Author: Xavier Hernandez