The Inflovable Machine is a collaborative musical instrument created from large tubular balloons that inflate and deflate through audience interaction, generating different sounds, like an air-powered organ. This piece by the 2021 National Culture Award of Catalonia winner, Mónica Rikić, will be on display in Athens from 3 to 7 April as part of the 21st edition of the l’ADAF, specifically within its programme for young children.

Blowing into eight large, coloured tubes controls the strength of the fans inside each balloon, enabling collective musical compositions to be created in real time. Each tube contains a microphone that acts as a sensor. When the system detects someone blowing into one of the tubes, it adjusts the intensity of the corresponding fan and generates a specific sound.

At the front, three buttons modify the sound output and the interaction. Each set of sounds and responses represents one of the three states of love: sexual desire, romantic love, and affection.

The Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) has been showcasing contemporary and innovative forms of digital art created by artists and scientists from around the world for 20 years. The festival began in 2005 as the Athens Video Art Festival and has since continuously expanded its content to include all forms of innovative expression and creation.

Mónica Rikić (Barcelona, 1986)
Electronic artist and creative coder. She focuses her practice on creative coding and electronics, combining them with non-digital objects to create interactive projects often framed as experimental games and robotic installations. Her interest lies in the social impact of technology. Ranging from educational approaches to sociological experiments, her projects propose new ways of interacting with the digital environment that surrounds us. In 2021, she received the National Culture Award of Catalonia.