This November, Mexico City cements its status as one of the most exciting creative capitals in the world, featuring a circuit of activities designed to highlight the avant-garde, experimentation, and new digital art models that the city attracts and inspires. After 16 years of continuous work, MUTEK Mexico is proud to be part of this circuit, collaborating with other organizations to offer the public one of the year's most intense and stimulating weeks dedicated to digital art and sound.
MUTEK Mexico presents the artistic lineup and collaborations rounding out this year's program, which includes the artists selected from the National Open Call launched in May. This initiative—unprecedented among Mexican festivals—provides a detailed, panoramic overview of the country's current digital art and sound scene.
Selected projects forming part of the Third Wave of Artists: Concepción Huerta performance A-way from fiction - Impvlso - Naerlot & Ultrachina as Unity - Jerry ZZZ - Le Fantom Onde - Markalach - NRMN - Rodrigo Martínez & Guillermo Olivera Live A/V Glitch Art - SANSSOLEIL - The Sinking - Virgilio performance Inframundis - VOID - CNDSD + Iván Abreu - KOI - Un rêve - Wasted Fates.
Noiselab and WHITEVoid present: SKALAR, a large-scale art installation by Christopher Bauder & Kangding Ray @ Frontón México.
During 45-minute sessions, SKALAR combines a vast array of kinetic mirrors and moving lights perfectly synchronized with a sophisticated multi-channel sound system, offering an audiovisual narrative of radiant vector light drawings and multidimensional sound within massive dark spaces.
Through a special partnership between MUTEK Mexico and Noiselab, SKALAR joins the activities enriching the festival experience, offering exclusive sessions and special discounts from November 18 to 24 at Frontón México. Since 2000, Noiselab has created various platforms to promote interaction and dialogue between society, art, and culture, using music as a unifying element. WhiteVoid, the interactive design studio of artist Christopher Bauder, brings the Mexican premiere of SKALAR.
Special tours of the exhibition James Turrell: Passages of Light at Museo Jumex
The immersive works of James Turrell, an artist who challenges our perception through lighting, color, and space, will be on view at Museo Jumex starting November 22. The exhibition *Passages of Light* includes new work from Turrell's most important series, distributed across two of the museum's galleries. Two large-scale installations offer contrasting experiences, as the loss of horizon occurs in both light and darkness. Museo Jumex and MUTEK MX are collaborating to offer an exclusive tour as part of the activities included in the Passport and Early Bird tickets.
Through its exhibitions and public programs, Museo Jumex aims to position itself as a key institution in the art world by producing and co-producing exhibitions and research that introduce diverse audiences to contemporary artistic practices.
Brian Eno presents Condensor @ Nocturne 1 & 2, in collaboration with FF projects.
'Condensor' is an immersive piece that pushes the boundaries of the contemplative experience: a "painting" capable of creating infinite color combinations woven together by an audio track composed as generative music. This concept, developed by Brian Eno, is presented in collaboration with FF projects, a contemporary art gallery with spaces in Nuevo León and Mexico City, whose portfolio includes works and exhibitions by world-class conceptual artists.
Adidas Originals presents Nocturne 1 and Aether, a special installation by Max Cooper & Architecture Social Club.
Aether is an immersive installation that functions as an emotional, storytelling instrument through the audiovisual mapping of abstract forms. Created by one of contemporary digital art's most fascinating duos, the installation tells stories through abstract audiovisual environments.
After taking the 2018 Lumiere Festival—one of the world's premier events for light artists—by storm, Aether will make its Latin American debut during Edition 16 at Nocturne 1 and Nocturne 2.
Casa MUTEK + Digi Lab 2019. In collaboration with Universidad de la Comunicación.
For Edition 16, Digi Lab's talks, workshops, and educational activities will run alongside a new networking and social program at Casa MUTEK, transforming the iconic UC Fraternidad estate into the central hub
for all daytime activities during festival week. From morning until night, visitors can enjoy music selectors, food options, and an impressive marketplace featuring showrooms, pop-up stores, and special activities created by and for the vibrant community that gathers around MUTEK Mexico every year.
➤ Casa MUTEK - Tuesday, November 19 to Thursday, November 22. FULL PROGRAM: Coming soon. You can find the MUTEK Mexico marketplace participants at Fábrica during Nocturne 1 and 2.
➤ Digi Lab - Tuesday, November 19 to Friday, November 23. FULL PROGRAM: Coming soon.
The MUTEK MX Experience.
From November 18 to 24, MUTEK Mexico invites attendees to explore Mexico City through the contrast between the iconic and the avant-garde—from its venues and artistic lineup to parallel activities like the classic Gastronomic Route and new environmental responsibility initiatives integrated into the festival's operations.
➤ The 2019 Gastronomic Route includes new benefits and activities for festival-goers, offering an opportunity to strengthen community ties by creating a circuit visited by artists, staff, guests, and collaborators. Discover the participating restaurants, bars, and cafes here.
➤ Regarding environmental responsibility and initial steps toward a sustainable festival, this year MUTEK Mexico is launching partnerships with platforms dedicated to reducing the environmental impact of large-scale events, fostering shared responsibility between attendees and organizers.
For more information, visit the official website of MUTEK Mexico.
