The multimedia installation created by alumna Malak Yahia from her Final Degree Project in Motion Graphics and Video was on display on 6 and 7 November at the 15th edition of the Digital Arts Festival, which attracted 12,000 attendees
Date
10 November 2026
“Ananke: A Liturgy” was the project through which IED Barcelona once again brought a showcase of the visual culture and new audiovisual narratives emerging from its School of Visual Arts to MIRA Digital Arts Festival.
Created by Alumni Malak Yahia from her Final Degree Project in the Bachelor of Arts in Design, specialising in Motion Graphics and Video, the multimedia installation was on display on 6 and 7 November at the Fira Montjuïc venue, during an edition of the festival that welcomed 12,000 attendees.
“Ananke: A Liturgy” explores how contemporary systems of power operate not through explicit restrictions, but by deliberately limiting perspective, presenting a constructed reality as the only possible world.
At MIRA Festival, the work was presented as a series of screens positioned at different heights throughout the space, each displaying reassembled fragments of canonical Western paintings processed using glitch aesthetics, ASCII typography and procedural particle animation.
Designed without a sequential viewing order, this arrangement created an interactive digital experience that invited visitors to explore new relationships between art, technology and perception. As they navigated a physical labyrinth of shifting texts drawn from political statements, bureaucratic language and literary testimonies spanning seven centuries, the installation culminated in a question projected simultaneously across all the screens — Where are you going? — prompting visitors to reflect on their own sense of purpose.
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