From September 19th-21st 2025, the Responsive Dreams Digital Arts Festival takes place in Granollers, Barcelona. In its 3rd edition, the festival features 8 new artworks released on Art Blocks Studio by an exciting cohort of generative artists who were commissioned to create their vision of an animated, responsive dream.

In "Tracing Archetypes" Aleksandra Jovanic is inspired by the question, "If computers can dream, what would they dream of?" She explores this concept by drawing parallels between human dream archetypes from psychology and art history and the logical structures of computer algorithms, creating a visual representation of a machine's potential subconscious.

Amy Goodchild's "The light where we meet" is an artwork inspired by firefly swarms which features individual lines that connect to form shapes, which then interact with their neighbors. This algorithm, which lacks centralized control, creates unrepeating, eternal waves of color as the shapes' internal clocks synchronize and influence one another.

"VIVOTECA" is bustavo's artwork exploring life's cycles of change and renewal. Using the looping geometry of the torus as its central motif, the work translates memories, fears, and happiness into light and color. Inspired by science and the neon aesthetics of the 1980s, it invites reflection on personal, infinite cycles of experience.

Frederik Vanhoutte's Winterkammer is an artwork that creates infinite, shifting landscapes. The works act as windows into an "isoverse," which shows us a dynamically changing world. Each piece continuously generates unique compositions and palettes, offering viewers a glimpse into a constantly evolving, geometric geology.

With "Field Transformations", and with his background in science and education, Hal09999 merges curiosity, technology and chaos to reveal new aesthetic structures at the edge of art and computation.

Julian Hespenheide's "Ratio" studying division and balance. The piece continuously divides its canvas into sections, each with its own evolving, self-calculating patterns. It draws on the Latin meaning of "ratio" and early cybernetics, using a systematic approach to place random values on specific beats, inviting the viewer to contemplate its evolving aesthetic.

Manuel Lariño presents "Broken Dreams", an artwork that explores the fragility and resilience of dreams, inspired by the fractured world we live in. It uses continuously shifting geometric forms and vibrant colors, with its composition evolving in response to blockchain data. The artwork's algorithm ensures that all color variations remain harmoniously linked, creating a constantly transforming yet cohesive visual experience.

"Neural Prometheus" is Paolo Curtoni's artwork which uses a training dataset—the textual "flame"—to create visual art by unveiling the relationship between humans and AI, suggesting that we are passing on the "fire" of language and thought to machines, much like Prometheus gave it to humanity. The art itself visualizes this process, with generative algorithms creating neuron-like structures from the text, raising questions about the nature of intelligence and the potential loss of humanity as AI evolves.

Responsive Dreams' programme also explores other sides of creative coding including live coding audiovisual sets by Maia Francisco, Claude Heiland-Allen, Levoxtrip, Espectre, Alicia Champlin, Refugi de Fauna Salvatge, Niklas Reppel Enric Mor & Burnout and Santiago, as well as dj sets by Lauseek B2B Obak, Takk Iori and LASK ATH, artist talks and roundtables, Quentin Hocdé pen plotting live and installations by Mónica Rikic presenting "Psychoflage", Niklas Roy and his "Generative Art 1€" artifact, Rotor Studio with "Artificial" and Santiago displaying "Self()".

And last, but not least, the festival also features "project showcases" such as Busy in Marfa by James Merrill, sponsored by The Generative Art Foundation, Sendas by protozoo, Klangteppich by Andreas Rau, La Gran Nit by Lars Wander, Mas Geli and Unsettle I-XI by Frederik Vanhoutte.

If you find yourself in Barcelona during the festival, it's a truly unique opportunity to experience generative art firsthand, as well as meeting the local artists community.