Participates: ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture
Location: Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona
Date and time: December 9, 17:00 h
Within the framework of NUBIA LAB INCUBATION AI MÓNS 2025, ESPRONCEDA presents The Forest Circle of Sound, a project by artist Kat Pegler, as part of the colloquium Diàleg amb la IA · Laboratori dels Sentits, organized within the artistic intervention Diàlegs amb la Natura, currently on display at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion.
The day proposes a meeting space where art, architecture, nature, and artificial intelligence interact as territories of creation, sensitivity, and transformation. In this context, Pegler’s work is framed within a reflection on space as living matter in constant flow and change — recalling the Heraclitean concept panta rhei (“everything flows”) — evoking a sensorial, poetic, and critical experience about our relationship with the environment, technology, and creativity.
Programme · Colloquium “Dialogue with AI · Laboratory of the Senses”
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- 17:00 — The Forest Circle of Sound
Presentation of The Forest Circle of Sound, by Kat Pegler, by ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture.
An immersive experience of deep listening that connects the audience with nature through sound, vibration, light, and water. - 17:15 — Presentations
Regina Saura, Rita Roqueta, and Josep Ferrando
A dialogue on the creative process of the intervention “Dialogues with Nature”. - 17:30 — How art can humanise the development of technology
Lecture by Lluís Sentís
Reflection on the role of art as a mediator in times of technological acceleration. - 18:00 — Open debate: AI and creativity
With audience participation. - 18:30 — Forest of messages
Performative action by Ariadna Cortés
A landscape of voices, gestures, and signals that expands the relationship between body, space, environment, and technology. - 19:30 — Closing
- 17:00 — The Forest Circle of Sound
About The Forest Circle of Sound and Kat Pegler
The Forest Circle of Sound is an immersive audiovisual installation and performance created by Kat Pegler, creative director, interdisciplinary artist, and researcher working at the intersection of culture, climate, and technology. Her practice explores how imagination can become an infrastructure for change, integrating sound, ecology, and immersive media to design more inclusive and sustainable futures.
The work combines music composed in a flow state, spatial field recordings, and reactive projections of light and water, generating a sensory environment where the audience is invited to feel rather than simply observe. Developed with the support of Arts Council England and VOICE EU, the project investigates neuro-inclusive and ecoacoustic design approaches, offering multiple access routes — sound, vibration, and visual movement — that expand accessibility and foster deeper ecological empathy. The work has been presented in the NUBIA LAB INCUBATION AI MÓNS 2025 edition at ESPRONCEDA, Institute of Art and Culture.
Upcoming exhibition: Regina Saura at ESPRONCEDA (February 12–19, 2026)
In continuity with this dialogue between nature, art, and architecture, ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture will host the solo exhibition by Regina Saura, one of the artists from Dialogues with Nature.
The exhibition will be open from February 12 to 19, 2026, offering the public the opportunity to delve into her pictorial universe, chromatic language, and emotional approach to landscape. It is an opportunity to bring into ESPRONCEDA’s exhibition space the conversation initiated at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion — a dialogue between fragility, light, nature, and perception — now reimagined in a more intimate and experimental context.
About NUBIA LAB INCUBATION AI MÓNS 2025
NUBIA LAB is Catalonia’s leading digital art and technology incubation programme, led by ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture. The 2025 edition focuses on projects integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Extended Reality (XR) as creative engines, with emphasis on technical implementation, experience design (UI/UX), and comprehensive 360° mentorship.
Under the motto “Experiment and Conquer the Digital Future”, NUBIA LAB 2025 promotes innovative, ethical, and sustainable proposals. The 2025 edition consolidates NUBIA as a European benchmark in AI and XR art, expanding its technological reach and international connections.
More information: https://nubialabs.com
