All projects

Each and every one of the activities, projects and processes that are carried out in the Épica Foundation are supported by 4 main lines of work that allow us to ensure that the fundamental objectives of the project are met, which are in turn aligned with the statutes of the entity. The lines of work are the following: R+D+i, dissemination and transfer of knowledge, residences, and socio-cultural and territorial activities. This section contains all the projects of the Foundation.

Projects

Badamonia

02/04/2024

An artificial intelligence and creativity project in collaboration with the Computer Vision Center of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Col·legi Badalonès to generate a Dimoni design in the framework of the 25th anniversary of the contest Crema'l Tu of the City Council of Badalona.

Workshop #20 - Neural Networks

04/03/2024

Neural networks - Workshop #20 is an art and science workshop that is part of the project Conexiones en la Frontera co-funded by the FECYT. Co-led by Épica and the IGTP, the project is based on the combination of scientific excellence and the performing arts as a common language. In addition to the IGTP, the project involves research groups from the CSIC and the Computer Vision Centre.

Kalliope Virtual Residence #3

01/12/2023

Third edition of the virtual residency for the development of creative and innovative proposals that want to experiment with the integration of Kalliópê.

REGIONAL S+T+ARTS Centres | AIR for European Resilience

12/07/2023

AIR for European Resilience, a project of the S+T+ARTS Regional Centres initiative, is an initiative led by the Media Solution Center BW that proposes, through the creation of a consortium of 8 partners from 5 different European countries, the creation of 4 S+T+ARTS Regional Centres in Germany, Spain, Italy and Slovenia.

SCENE

01/02/2023

Searchable multi-dimensional Data Lakes supporting Cognitive Film Production & Distribution for the Promotion of the EuropeaN Cultural HeritagE, is a project funded by the European Commission and led by CERTH that aims to create a globally competitive European film industry through AI and cultural heritage.

OLLD 2023, ENoLL

09/10/2023

The Fundación Épica La Fura dels Baus co-organizes together with CVC, i2Cat the Open Living Labs Days, the annual event of the European Network of Living Labs. It is a meeting that brings together Living Labs members, public authorities, business managers, entrepreneurs, academics and innovators from all over the world.

FECYT's White Paper

16/06/2023

Conceptualization process, design and development of the new format for the update of the White Paper on the Interrelation between Art, Science, Technology and Society in Spain of the Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT).

Épica at the Festa de la Ciència

06/06/2023

Épica participates in the 16th edition of the Barcelona Festa de la Ciència offering a free activity for all audiences in collaboration with the Centro de Visión por Computador of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Workshop #19 - Neurotransmitters

24/03/2023

Co-creation workshop between art and science that serves as a laboratory for invited experts and scientists to develop their studies and research both during the public presentation and during the creative process. The aim of the project, focusing in this edition on Neurotransmitters as a framework concept, is to validate the role of art in R&D&I processes, together with science and technology.

The Foundation celebrates 5 years!

15/03/2023

On 16 March 2023, on the occasion of its 5th anniversary, the Foundation officially opens its doors in its new space located in the Port of Badalona.

Épica in The Next Renaissance | ZKM

10/03/2023

The Epica Foundation La Fura dels Baus is participating in the programme of activities on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition "Renaissance 3.0" at the ZKM on 24 and 25 March 2023. The programme, framed within the platform of "The Next Renaissance" EIT Culture and Creativity, will feature speakers such as Bernd Fesel, Michael Resch, Alexander Mankowsky, Daria Tataj, among others.

Kalliope Virtual Residence #2

06/12/2022

Second edition of the virtual residency for the development of creative and innovative proposals that want to experiment with the integration of Kalliópê. Through this initiative, the Foundation provides support to a total of 3 international projects.

Le Quattro Morti di Pier Paolo Pasolini

02/10/2022

Le Quattro Morti di Pier Paolo Pasolini, by Gian Maria Cervo and artistic direction by Pep Gatell is a project within the framework of the “Affabulazione” initiative, carried out by the City Council of Naples and the Italian Ministry of Culture. The initiative's main objective is the decentralization of culture towards unconventional spaces, rethinking urban spaces, social inclusion, territorial rebalancing, employment protection and the enhancement of tangible and intangible cultural heritage in peripheral areas of the city.

LABA Valencia

05/09/2022

The Fundación Épica La Fura dels Baus collaborates with LABA Valencia, the Spanish branch of the prestigious Italian art university LABA - Libera Accademia di Belle Arti with 20 years of experience in artistic teaching of Bachelor's and Master's degrees. The Foundation's team collaborates with the university as part of the teaching staff of the first edition of the International Master's Degree in Multimedia Creation for the Performing Arts.

Survival vs Resilience

11/07/2022

Co-creation workshop between art and science that serves as a laboratory for invited experts and scientists to develop their studies and research both during the public presentation and during the creative process. The objective of the project is to validate the role of art in R+D+i processes, together with science and technology.

UNESCO: Media Arts Creative Cities Forum 2021

07/10/2021

2021 Net Play Beyond Network Performance: This is Not a Game is a collaborative, real-time distributed digital experiment created to be showcased during the UNESCO Digital Arts Creative Cities Network Policy Forum 2021.

European Performing Science Day

25/09/2021

Initiative framed in the European Night of Researchers whose main objective is to bring researchers closer to the public and promote their recognition, their work and the value they bring to society.

Diálogos Épicos

12/05/2021

Épica promotes a digital cycle of colloquia in which the entity's management team talks with multidisciplinary experts (gastronomy, architecture, technology, among others) to reflect on the anticipatory power of art - Anticipatory Arts - and how creativity allows us to face challenges from the future.

European Performing Science Night

01/05/2021

Initiative framed in the European Night of Researchers whose main objective is to bring researchers closer to the public and promote their recognition, their work and the value they bring to society.

Juga amb els hàbits saludables

08/04/2021

Collaboration within the framework of the 1st Interuniversity Healthy Week of Catalonia. With the aim of supporting the event, the Foundation organizes two games of questions on healthy living and health habits under the premise that the game is culture. Sessions are held on Thursday, April 8 via Zoom and the Kahoot app.

BiblioEscape

01/04/2021

Project for young people that proposes the use of the transmedia tool Kalliópê, to create an automated escape room in the network of public libraries in the city of Badalona.

Masterclass in LABA Valencia

20/03/2021

LABA Valencia, School of Arts, Design and New Media organizes the BLABLANIGHTS conference cycle, a free event in which various experts, artists and creative experts relevant to the field of design and image, creation and technology are invited to give masterclasses open to the public. public and broadcast live.

Virtual residence Kalliópê

09/10/2020

First edition of the virtual residence for the development of creative and innovative proposals that want to experiment with the integration of Kalliópê. Through this initiative, the Foundation provides support to a total of 5 international projects.

La Tempestad en Casa

02/09/2020

Collective, virtual and remote experiment carried out in co-production with the International Cervantino Festival, the National Theater Company of Mexico, with the participation of the stable cast of the CNT and Young Creators of FONCA.

RCR Summer Workshop, RCR Architects

30/07/2020

RCR Arquitectos invites the President of the Foundation, Pep Gatell, to give a conference within the framework of the RCR Summer Workshop. It is an international workshop on Architecture and Landscape, Audiovisual and Photography, and Scenography, managed by RCR Lab·A, and accompanied by a Dance Program, Graphic Design and an Open Program.

¿Quién gana la corona?/ Bodas de Sangre

25/05/2020

Virtual and interactive performance cycle created with the aim of exploring participation with the audience through gamification techniques and collaborative work.

La Maldición de la Corona

13/04/2020

Collective, virtual and remote experiment born during the confinement by COVID-19. The project, in which 30 creatives and 3 research groups have participated, proposes a reflection on how to approach creativity in confinement.

IMMENSIVA VR/AI Residence

05/02/2020

Espronceda Institute of Art and Culture organizes the first IMMENSIVE VR/AI Residence artistic residency that welcomes international virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) artists. Épica participates in the inauguration of the residence by giving a conference and hosting artists and curators in a kick-off session to promote artistic co-creation.

Complex systems

30/11/2019

Our cells collide, collaborate, chain, camouflage, commit suicide, strategize, rebel, conceive, fight, work as a team, and give rise to extraordinary phenomena. And we? This project proposes collaborative work between science, art and technology based on scientific knowledge and challenges: cancer, neuromuscular diseases, gaming and neuroscience.

Internet Festival 2019

10/10/2019

Pep Gatell, president of the Épica Foundation, was invited to participate in the Internet Festival 2019 in Pisa (Italy).

Moderno Prometeo

08/05/2019

Second edition of the collaboration with the Danish art school Aarhus Produktionsskole. Young Danish students participate in an intensive workshop in which they will adopt new roles to face this multidisciplinary creation based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein passed through the filter of Transhumanism.

Falsas Memorias 2.0

24/04/2019

La Fura dels Baus once again works with the actors and theater technicians Zetsky to create a workshow that will open the MIT Festival, Montenegro International Theater Festival

"Diálogos de Cocina"

12/03/2019

Pep Gatell, President of the Fundación Épica and artistic director of La Fura dels Baus, was invited as a speaker at Diálogos de Cocina 2019, a biannual and international congress that brings together renowned gastronomy experts.

4YFN

26/02/2019

4YFN is the innovation platform of the Mobile World Congress, Pep Gatell and Daria Tataj, along with Iglor Soluciones Audiovisuales Avanzadas, were invited to this event to present Tataj Innovation's Network Thinking™ system.

Épica i Singular 2.0

20/02/2019

Second edition of the Èpica i Singular project whose objective is the labor insertion or the return to the educational system of young people between 18 and 29 years old at risk of social exclusion. Through a common objective, the realization of a stage project, the participants develop new skills and receive regulated training to be able to access the labor market.

Cubiculum Apertum

14/02/2019

Through new technologies, creativity and the materials that we find in the Library (books, comics, files, magazines, etc.) the project proposes the creation of an Scape Room based on the Badalona municipal libraries and their contents.

Collaboration FIB-UPC

15/01/2019

Periodic collaboration with the Faculty of Computer Engineering of the UPC to work around a crossmedia application and its interconnection with the Internet of Things and Smart Cities, for personalized communication in large audiences in a show.

Information vs Memory

18/12/2018

Multidisciplinary co-creation workshop whose result is a public exhibition of the result of the creation process based on challenges of researchers in neuroscience, biology, gastronomy, supercomputing, active aging... The CVC, IDIBELL, Mugaritz and the Department of Philosophy of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, among others, participated in the project.

Kaospilot working visit

17/10/2018

Kaospilot is a Danish business and design school that carries out different practices of project leadership and team cohesion with the aim of creating entrepreneurs within the business world from an alternative point of view.

LEAVeS

10/09/2018

A project of La FORTeRESse and EU Collective Plays that, with the collaboration of La Fura dels Baus and the Épica Foundation, wishes to discover new limits of scenic language and interaction with the public.

Yes We Print Fest

12/05/2018

Épica supports the initiative of the Barcelona collective Yes We Printers to bring the world of screen printing closer to society.

BAU - The Brain

30/04/2018

Épica welcomes third-year Audiovisual students from the BAU, Barcelona Design University Center for four weeks. The students will put into practice the knowledge acquired during their university education in the creation of a crossmedia performance around the subject of the brain based on the furer language and the Épica methodology.

Gulliver’s Dream

11/04/2018

Before embarking on various performances across Europe, the mechanized opera Gulliver's Dream makes a stop at the Foundation. Épica became the laboratory space for the general rehearsal and first public presentation of a fully mechanized opera.

Innsmouth

19/02/2018

First edition of the collaboration with the Danish art school Aarhus Produktionsskole. Young Danish students participate in an intensive workshop with the aim of facing a common work inspired by the work "The Shadow over Innsmouth" by H. P. Lovecraft.

Épica i Singular

13/02/2017

First edition of the Èpica i Singular project whose objective is the labor insertion or the return to the educational system of young people between 18 and 29 years old at risk of social exclusion. Through a common objective, the realization of a stage project, the participants develop new skills and receive regulated training to be able to access the labor market.