Dozens of artists, technologists, scientists, visionaries, and radical thinkers from the fields of audiovisual arts, music, engineering, quantum computing, and interface design will present the new ways humans and AI are interacting, and explore the transformative potential of the technology.
Sónar+D 2025 presents more than a hundred activities designed to inspire, train, and connect creators, professionals from various disciplines, and the general public, providing a dynamic platform for the fostering and projection of local and international talent.
The program is structured around three thematic axes: ‘AI + Creativity’, which examines how the tools and approaches of AI are affecting artistic production; ‘Futuring the Creative Industries’, a space to reflect on changes and opportunities in the sector; and ‘Worlds to Come’, an exploration of emerging scenarios that will define the relationships between technology, culture, and society.
Interactive forums, round tables, master classes, performative conferences, workshops, multidisciplinary shows, and an exhibition area with dozens of projects, will open the door to discovering the future before it becomes the present.
Among this year’s invited figures are Libby Heaney (UK) presented by SEIDOR, Tega Brain (AU), Rebecca Fiebrink (UK), Xin Liu (CN), yaboihanoi (TH), Albert.DATA (ES), Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley (UK), Forensis & Bill Kouligas (INT), YESSI PERSE & laSADCUM (ES), and the premiere of ‘Ama’, the new project by Maria Arnal (ES).
The festival expands its collaborations at a local and global level with renowned cultural, academic, and scientific entities such as the New Museum, Serpentine Gallery, Tabakalera, the Onassis Foundation, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, University of the Arts London, IRCAM, IASLab at La Salle-URL; companies like Stability AI and Google Magenta, and pioneering AI projects like AudioStellar.
Beyond AI, the program expands this year to offer a broad and multidisciplinary vision of the present and future, exploring themes ranging from digital sustainability and non-binary futurism to terraformation, space exploration, neurohacking, or emerging trends in internet culture, including incisive satires on techno-feudalism.
Sónar+D 2025 will be held on June 12, 13, and 14 at the Palau de Congressos de Fira Montjuïc, within Sónar by Day, offering attendees access to dozens of talks, debates, and performances from 10:00 AM, as well as more than 50 concerts and DJ sets.
