Today we announce the Sónar+D 2024 Open Call, offering you the chance to showcase your work at Sónar 2024 on the 13th, 14th and 15th of June next year. We want you to join the biggest celebration of creative talent in Barcelona, and help us continue to position the city as a global hub for creativity, research, and technology.
If you’re a creative start-up, creative studio or research institution or any other organisation working with creativity, research and technology; you could have your work exhibited in our Project Area next summer. You can submit your ideas and proposals for consideration until Friday 22nd December 2023.
Project Area is the beating heart of Sónar+D, a forum, exhibition area and testing ground open to all attendees at Sónar by Day, where creative technology and innovative art meet eye-opening research, AI-generated visuals, and experimental video games. If selected, your work will be on display to thousands of people across the three days of Sónar 2024.
This year, we’re asking for projects, prototypes, ideas and products that fall under the following categories:
Music & Sound*
Products, research, design and technology focused on music or sound making, analogue or digital synthesis and beyond.
AI and Music*
Research projects, design and technology that combines Artificial Intelligence or machine-learning with musical production.
Avatars, Digital Beings, and the Metaverse
Work that explores human-machine symbiosis and the art of creating digital selves.
Experimental and artistic gaming
Video games that push boundaries and explore new creative narratives.
Realities+D - Alternative Realities
Augmented Realities (AR), Virtual Realities (VR), and Extended Realities (XR).
AI and Film
Research projects, design and technology that combines Artificial Intelligence or machine-learning with cinema and film production.
Blockchain experiments
Novel and innovative projects and ideas that make use of blockchain technology.
Who is the open call for?
This open call is aimed at creative technology start-ups and businesses, creative studios, universities and educational institutions, creative laboratories and research centres.
*Please note that we will not be accepting any applications for DJ sets or any kind of musical performances, any applications that include such proposals will be immediately deleted on reception.
If you think your idea belongs at Sónar+D 2024, submit your application now via this form before Friday 22nd December. Please read the FAQ below for more information on how to submit your application and what we’re looking for.