Montxo Algora

As a visual artist and designer, Montxo Algora actively participated in the creative scene of La Movida in the late seventies and during the eighties, with visual interventions in emblematic spaces such as La Vía Láctea and graphic works for key groups of the time such as Aviador Dro and La Mode. In the 1980s he trained at the School of Visual Arts in New York and worked as art director at Digital Productions, one of the pioneering computer graphics and 3D animation studios 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 more than thirty editions and which has developed activities in cities such as Barcelona, Madrid, Seville, Granada, Ibiza, Buenos Aires, Mexico, London, Rome and Montevideo. The annual ArtFutura exhibitions have had the participation of fundamental figures of digital culture such as William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Laurie Anderson, Theo Jansen, Moebius, David Byrne or Brian Eno, among many others.

Among other notable projects, in 1992 he directed the multidisciplinary show “Memory Place”, based on an original text by William Gibson, and as curator he was responsible for the exhibition “Machines & Souls” at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, one of the most relevant digital art exhibitions held in this institution, which received more than 450,000 visitors.

Throughout his career, Montxo Algora has defended a humanistic view of technology and digital creation, exploring how digital tools can expand creative and artistic possibilities. A vision that fully connects with the motto of this edition of Animac: Things Change.

For all these reasons, Animac awards Montxo Algora the 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award.