April 9th 2015, telecommunications engineers from the Audiovisual Unit at i2CAT Foundation and internationally renowed creatives within the performing arts such as Marcel·lí Antúnez and a group of actors and dancers from University of Falmouth, presented his latest creation, an interactive and distributed performance between two remote scenarios, the Centre Arts 
Santa Monica in Barcelona and a study in the campus of the University in the United Kingdom. This trans-national action, which has generated great expectations, has been organized by the i2CAT Foundation (RICHES Partners) and the Direcció General de Creació i Empreses Culturals of the Government of Catalonia.
Under the name of ULTRARORBISM, the performance became a live demonstration of how advanced conference systems, streaming media, networked and distributed environments can support creativity in the fields of scenic arts, especially theatre, dance and performance. The i2CAT Foundation played an important role in the organization of the show as a technology provider, a unique opportunity to experiment and test key aspects of relevant importance in distributed environments such as latency or real-time interaction between remote scenarios, synchronization and the use of advanced technologies. The performance, which reached great impact, was seen live by more than 150 spectators distributed in the two venues separated by miles away, and also offered the possibility to see it around the world through an online streaming service.
Ultimately, ULTRAORBISM opens new doors for experimental and creative formats using advanced visual environments in the field of telematics and distributed events. The potential utilities of the results are very rich from a technical point of view and also from an artistic perspective, and the excellent results of this experience present a very optimistic future in the development of co-creation environments in Europe and the use of ICT in the fields of culture and the arts.
This event has been organized in the framework of two European projects; SPECIFI is a European project in the framework of the CIP, Competitiveness and Innovation framework programme, which aims to promote the use of Future Internet infrastructures for the promotion of culture and creativity in the Smart Cities. RICHES Project (Renewal, Innovation & Change: Heritage and European Society) is a research project that investigates how the advent of digital technologies is changing the ways in which we understand, collect and make available Europe’s cultural heritage (CH).
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