October 17-19, 2025 · Salamanca, Spain
This October, Sinfonía Biótica takes a crucial step in its development journey. We’re heading to MolinoLab, a rural art and agroecology space in Salamanca, to field-test the latest unreleased version of our virtual reality experience with a diverse group of participants.
A New Version, Real Bodies, Real Contexts
Participants will be among the first to experience the newest iteration of Sinfonía Biótica—an immersive VR environment where bioelectric data from living organisms becomes a navigable sonic landscape. They’ll feel in their own bodies the electrical impulses of other beings and create audiovisual pieces through their movement in the virtual space.
This isn’t just a demo—it’s a research opportunity. Together with the I’m body Lab (Interactive Multisensory Body-centred Experiences at the Intersection of Neuroscience & Technology), we’re conducting a usability study that goes beyond typical user testing.
Diverse Voices, Richer Data
Our participant group brings together students from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and local residents from the Ciudad Rodrigo region. This deliberate diversity gives us invaluable perspectives across:
- Different age groups
- Urban and rural contexts
- Varied relationships with nature and technology
- Multiple cultural backgrounds and approaches to natural environments
By testing with this spectrum of users, we’re ensuring that Sinfonía Biótica can speak to—and listen to—a broad range of people, not just the usual tech-savvy early adopters.
Learning to Listen: Biodata Workshops
The Sinfonía Biótica team will facilitate hands-on workshops teaching participants to:
- Capture bioelectric signals from plants and fungi using biodata sensing devices
- Stream data in real-time to our database infrastructure
- Create sonic and audiovisual compositions using these living signals as creative material
- Develop collaborative pieces that respond to the electrical language of the more-than-human world
Digital Botany: Co-creating with Local Flora
Throughout the weekend, we’ll be digitizing the local plant life—trees, shrubs, flowers—creating virtual counterparts that will inhabit the VR experience. This isn’t just 3D scanning; it’s an invitation to co-create with these organisms, to bring their presence and their data into a shared artistic space.
These digitized beings from MolinoLab’s ecosystem will become part of the ever-growing Sinfonía Biótica landscape, carrying the specificities of this Salamanca territory into the virtual realm.
From Field to Form
The works created during these three days will be exhibited throughout 2026 at MolinoLab, on this website (sinfoniabiotica.xyz), and at botanical gardens in various cities. Each piece will carry traces of this encounter—between people and plants, between rural wisdom and cutting-edge technology, between individual creativity and collective listening.
Why This Matters
Projects like Sinfonía Biótica exist at the intersection of art, science, and ecology. But they only truly come alive when tested in the wild—with real people, in meaningful contexts, surrounded by the living systems that inspire them.
MolinoLab provides the perfect setting: a space already dedicated to bridging traditional agricultural knowledge and contemporary experimental practice, where the boundaries between art, ecology, and daily life are productively blurred.
This weekend is about listening—to users, to plants, to what happens when technology becomes a tool for ecological sensitivity rather than extraction.
More information:
Research collaboration: I’m body Lab – Interactive Multisensory Body-centred Experiences at the Intersection of Neuroscience & Technology