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Mira Festival 2026 focuses on digital video and emerging artists
Music and digital video share the spotlight at Mira Festival, a Barcelona event that began in 2011. The festival gives a platform to emerging artists and explores creativity outside the mainstream circuit.
The Barcelona event brings together digital arts with collective work and alternative creativity.
A focus on visuals was one of the keys that made Mira a pioneer in digital arts. In Barcelona, the festival has been building a programme centred on imagery since 2011.
A space for new voices
Mira Festival is now a European benchmark for digital and visual arts, and has also held international editions.
Its approach welcomes emerging artists as well as collective and volunteer work. The organisers aim for a more sustainable concept, within the limits that social leisure can offer.
Music and video outside the mainstream circuit
The experience is especially visual: it combines music and digital video with recent technologies and alternative creativity, far from more conventional offerings.
The perspective on festivals is also critical: the text presents them as a form of social distraction attributed to the elites and recommends enjoying leisure with discernment. Even so, it places Mira among the highest-quality options.
Barcelona’s calendar also includes international events of other kinds, such as the gathering at the Museu Marítim. Mira Festival 2026 continues to focus on digital and visual arts.