The International Animation Film Festival of Catalonia (Animac), organized by the Lleida City Council and directed by Carolina López, recognizes Montxo Algora's career as “decisive in the introduction, development, and consolidation of contemporary digital culture” in Spain. The festival's theme this year is Things Change.
Animac highlights his humanistic view on technology and digital creation, exploring how digital tools can expand creative and artistic possibilities.
Algora actively participated in the creative scene of the Movida in the late seventies and eighties, carrying out visual interventions in spaces like La Vía Láctea and graphic work for key groups such as Aviador Dro and La Mode.
After training at the School of Visual Arts in New York, he worked as an art director at Digital Productions, a pioneering studio in computer graphics and 3D animation in Los Angeles. In 1990, he founded ArtFutura, an event dedicated to exploring the future of art in relation to new technologies, which he has directed for over thirty editions.
Among his notable projects, in 1992 he directed the multidisciplinary show Memory Place, based on an original text by William Gibson, and curated the exhibition “Máquinas & Almas” at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.
