Creative Coding Barcelona with Anna Carreras and Sól Ey presents "Performance as code"

Creative Coding Barcelona arrives at Sónar+D with Performance as code, a session featuring Anna Carreras and Sól Ey. The programme brings together two artists working with real-time systems, where code, sound, gesture and perception unfold live and cannot be repeated in exactly the same way.

Anna Carreras’ generative practice explores how complexity can emerge from simple rules, creating visual works that move between order and chaos. Sól Ey’s work extends the body through sound, sensors, space, movement and electronic objects. Together, their presence under the Creative Coding Barcelona umbrella frames creative coding as a performative language: one that is written, executed, heard, seen and felt in real time.

Mónica Rikić: (not) submit to care

TGAM’s participation also extends into production with Mónica Rikić’s Sónar+D presentation, (not) submit to care. Rikić, one of Catalonia’s most recognized digital artists, works across creative programming, electronics, robotics and education. Her practice often gives life to mechanical creatures built from simple materials and precise behavioural systems.

At Sónar+D, she presents a hybrid format between lecture, performance and demo, using robotics to open a critical conversation about care, automation and the social structures surrounding assistive technologies. Rather than approaching robotics as a neutral promise of efficiency, Rikić’s work asks what these technologies reveal about labour, dependency, vulnerability and the privatization of care.

TGAM’s role in this project is one of production: supporting the conditions that allow the work to be presented in a format that is technically rigorous, conceptually sharp and accessible to a broad audience. In the context of Sónar+D, the piece adds an essential perspective to conversations around technology, reminding us that innovation cannot be separated from the social realities it enters.

Roxanne Harris: Syntax::Stream

Roxanne Harris is an artist, researcher and musician-programmer whose work explores live coding as an embodied, improvisational and vulnerable practice.

Her Sónar+D performative talk, Syntax::Stream, unfolds in two parts: first as a reflection on programming as a bodily and improvisational practice, and then as a live performance where usually invisible processes become perceptible as sound and image. Signal flows, algorithmic decisions and networked interactions are transformed into artistic material.

This presentation is especially relevant within a wider conversation about creative coding because it shifts attention away from code as a purely technical language. In Harris’ work, code becomes a performance environment, a score, an instrument and a site of negotiation between human agency and technological systems.

Through artist representation, TGAM helps bring this practice into dialogue with Sónar+D’s audience and its broader ecosystem of digital culture.

Niklas Roy: Generative Art 1€ and the public as collector

Niklas Roy’s Generative Art 1€ appears at Sónar+D 2026 as part of Expo+D, the exhibition programme dedicated to interactive, playful and thought-provoking technological projects. The work is a coin-operated vending machine for unique plotter drawings: a generative algorithm continuously creates an animated line on screen, and when a visitor inserts a coin, the system plots the drawing onto paper, stamps it and releases it as an original artwork.

Generative Art 1€ had its Spanish premiere at Responsive Dreams 2025, TGAM’s festival dedicated to generative art and creative coding. Its appearance at Sónar+D continues that trajectory, bringing the work to a wider audience and placing it inside a broader conversation about access, value and authorship in machine-generated art.

The power of Roy’s installation lies in its clarity. For one euro, the visitor becomes not only a spectator but a collector. The work transforms the act of choosing, printing and taking home a plotter drawing into a public ritual. It raises questions that are central to generative art: When does an artwork become unique? Who gives it value? What changes when an algorithmic image leaves the screen and becomes a physical object?

A/V Show: 30drop and Santiago in collaboration with TGAM presents Insight Into Mind and Space

TGAM’s role at Sónar+D 2026 also extends to 30drop presents Insight Into Mind and Space, a live audiovisual performance combining techno, experimentation and real-time generative visuals. The project brings together Barcelona producer and composer 30drop with Santiago, a Barcelona-based visual artist who describes himself as a “digital craftsman” and uses code as his creative and poetic tool. For this performance, TGAM has acted as curator and technical producer, supporting the integration of the musical and visual systems that allow the work to unfold live as an immersive dialogue between sound, science, space and generative image.

A shared ecology of code, machines, music and audiences

Taken together, these five presences form a meaningful portrait of The Generative Art Museum’s work at Sónar+D 2026. Creative Coding Barcelona represents community and curation. Mónica Rikić brings critical production around robotics and care. Roxanne Harris expands TGAM’s artist representation into the field of live coding and performance. Niklas Roy connects generative systems with participation, collecting and the physical experience of algorithmic art. Insight into mind and space's A/V show goes deep into music and live generated visuals at Sonar by night.

What unites them is not a single aesthetic, but a shared belief in generative art and creative coding as a living field. It can be performed on stage, embodied through sound, questioned through robotics, printed by a machine, collected for one euro, or discussed within a community of coders and artists. At Sónar 2026, The Generative Art Museum and Creative Coding Barcelona show that generative art is not only about what computers can produce. It is about the relationships that emerge between systems, artists, institutions and audiences.