Tickets for the Dalí Cibernético are already on sale starting today, which will begin screening on September 20 at the Ideal, the digital arts center in Poblenou. It will be a journey through the dreamlike and poetic universe of Dalí through large-format projections, interactive installations, virtual reality and holograms with a total duration of 90 minutes.
The project is an international co-production of Layers of Reality and Exhibition Hub that is scheduled to tour internationally over the next four years, starting in London in October. A first sample of the project was presented in Barcelona today, with the presence of Jordi Sellas, executive director of Ideal; Montse Aguer, director of the Dalí museums; Imma Fondevila and Anna Pou, curators of the exhibition, and Mario Iacampo, co-producer and representative of the Exhibition Hub in Brussels.
This cybernetic Dalí will allow - "for the first time in history", according to the promoters - that visitors to an exhibition center enter the Dalí metaverse collectively. It will be a 15-minute virtual reality experience in which visitors will enter a Dalinian digital universe.
Each person, armed with virtual reality glasses, will be able to physically walk through four spaces of Dalí's universe, the sea, the sky, the void and the desert -the Empordà plain- and immerse themselves in them. This is probably the most impressive part of the project presented today, which will be completed with a 30-minute projection in three dimensions, a holographic room and other more classic ones on the humanist Dalí and in love with Ramon Llull -today the boss of computer scientists-, on his scientific obsessions (from DNA to the dimension chart or the theory of catastrophes) and about his project to create a "dream machine".
The Ideal center was launched at the end of 2019, in the old cinema of the same name in Poblenou, which in the 1980s became a studio and set for TV3. Exhibitions of Monet, Barcelona photography, Klimt and Kahlo have been scheduled at that time and it has been visited by some 400,000 people. Currently a team of 50 people works on the Dalí cybernetic project
