HRTZ: the great audiovisual festival by BAU

On March 10 and 11 will be held the HRTZ festival, self-managed by the students of the Audiovisual itinerary of the BAU Degree in Design. A contest that questions the future of the audiovisual world, in which technological development has generated infinite creative possibilities, new formats and languages.

For this reason, the HRTZ 2022, gathers a wide range of productions that corroborate the great variety of techniques and new formats in the sector.

The festival will be inaugurated on Thursday 10 with a screening of student projects. This will be followed by a talk by the artist Serafín Alvárez, BAU professor, who will focus his talk on the use of video game technology to create autonomous digital worlds and unforeseen narratives that emerge in real time, as in his project “A synthetic forest in a stone“.

After the intervention of the artist Serafín Alvárez, the Lavinia group, specialists in communication and technology, will give a talk on new audiovisual formats that go beyond the screen and on virtual reality projects.

The closing of the first day will be Klaus Obermaier, New Tools, New ideas, organized by the Máster en Innovación Audiovisual y Entornos Interactivos. This multifaceted artist is an international reference in the development of interactive tools and experimentation with spatial devices.

The second and last day of the HRTZ 2022 festival will open with a talk by students Malena Ibarz and Enric Pérez, from the creative agency Codea Studio, specialized in the general field. Then, Arnau Coll and Laura Subirats, also students and founders of the London-based multidisciplinary studio Digo Digital, will screen their first short film, Press Home to Unlock.

As a final closing of the festival, the group edifici_B, formed by students of the Master in Audiovisual Innovation and Interactive Environments, will perform a musical and audiovisual show. This consists of an interactive installation that proposes a technological approach to the ancestral ritual of fire. Games of lights and shadows that create a recreational scenario of primitive veneration and futuristic longing.