Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) announced Matt Clark, the renowned British artist and visionary founder of United Visual Artists (UVA), as the Creative Keynote speaker at ISE 2026.
Celebrated for his pioneering work combining art, technology and architecture, Clark seamlessly fused light, code, sound and choreography to create impactful works at leading cultural institutions and major public spaces around the world.
With his signature wit and bold thinking on stage, Clark’s keynote challenged audiences to push boundaries and rethink the relationship between art, technology and the built environment at ISE 2026.
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The session took place on Tuesday 3 February, from 15:30 to 16:15, in room CC4.1, where Clark presented his keynote Hidden Order: Building a Performance-led Mapping at Casa Batlló, from Concept to Implementation. This inspiring session offered a rare behind-the-scenes insight into Hidden Order, the spectacular façade mapping commissioned and produced by Casa Batlló in collaboration with UVA, scheduled for 31 January and 1 February, just ahead of the opening of ISE 2026.
The commissioned work, Hidden Order, marked the 5th edition of Casa Batlló’s annual mapping, presented free of charge to the citizens of Barcelona and established as one of the city’s most significant cultural events. It used the building both as subject and instrument, aiming to further extend Gaudí’s radical legacy through inspiration and reinterpretation, drawing on Gaudí’s relationship with geometry and nature. Through light, movement and sound, the façade was deconstructed and recomposed, incorporating choreography and human movement as integral compositional elements. The work moved across the boundaries between figuration and abstraction, and between the human and architecture, while responding to real-world constraints that shaped both its visual language and technical design.
Clark’s keynote served as a case study of the Casa Batlló commission, from initial impressions and concept through research, prototyping, content systems, technical design, show control and on-site execution. He explained how UVA translated architectural logic into a controllable visual system, collaborating with a diverse team of technical artisans and specialists to take the work from studio testing to full realisation, demonstrating how constraints ultimately shaped the final composition.
Hidden Order also extended into the newly inaugurated second-floor gallery at Casa Batlló, evolving into Beyond the Façade, a five-month site-specific exhibition that opened on 31 January and offered visitors an immersive experience of Clark’s work. This unique space within the iconic building provided the opportunity to explore in depth the artistic process behind the mapping, combining light, movement and technology to reflect on life cycles and the interaction between human presence and architecture, allowing visitors to see themselves reflected in the work.
We were delighted to welcome Matt Clark as our Creative Keynote at ISE 2026. Matt’s visionary approach and his ability to merge art, technology and human experience embodied the spirit of ‘Push Beyond’, our theme for ISE 2026. This extraordinary project, created by Casa Batlló in collaboration with Matt Clark, challenged us to see the world differently and inspired the community to explore new creative frontiers. I am confident that Matt’s keynote and the presentation of ‘Hidden Order’ at Casa Batlló sparked new ambition and generated meaningful conversations across the global audiovisual and systems integration industry, commented Mike Blackman, Managing Director of Integrated Systems Events.
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