Waveforms

Name: Waveforms
Start: 2026-02-12T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-12T22:00:00-05:00
Location: Emerson Paramount Center

A Multimedia Art Occurrence

This Winter, WaveForms returns with Boston’s best multimedia art occurrence, taking over the Emerson Paramount Center for the first time!

Presented by the Museum of Science, MASARY Studios, and Emerson College, the evening will feature installation artwork, audio visual performance, spatial sound, experimental animation, and video screenings from artists around the globe as part of the Museum’s Year of Revolutionary Science.

Art, science, and technology are woven together in this one-night-only multimedia art occurrence, exclusively activating the Paramount Center!

Artwork Track Information:

WaveForms is produced and curated by a unique cohort of organizations to bring the event to life:

Video + Animation Screenings curated by Boston CyberArts
Media Installation Artworks curated by Illuminus Boston
Spatial Sound Mixtape curated by MIT Spatial Sound Lab
Audio Visual Performances curated by MASARY
LED Media Facade curated by Emerson College

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In Partnership With

Museum of Science

As science and technology increasingly shape our lives, the Museum of Science strives to equip and inspire everyone to use science for the global good. Among the world’s largest science centers and New England’s most attended cultural institution, we engage nearly five million people a year – at Science Park and in museums around the world, in classrooms, and online.

The Museum’s singular location connecting Boston and Cambridge puts us at the junction of some of the world’s most influential academic institutions and industries, local and state government, schools, and the public. Trusted by each sector, we are ideally positioned to convene, inspire, and create meaningful experiences for all.

Museum of Science
1 Science Park, Boston, MA 02114

Website: https://www.mos.org/

Emerson College

Emerson College, a nonprofit educational institution, draws independent minds from diverse backgrounds around the world through its highly regarded academic programs in communication, and the arts. Energized by engagement with the creative life of Boston, Los Angeles, and the Netherlands, our students are thinkers and doers who develop daring ideas and bring innovation, depth, and diversity to their disciplines.

Website: Emerson College

MASARY Studios

MASARY Studios is a transdisciplinary artist collective reconsidering environments through site-specific installations using sound, light, interactivity, and performance. The studio’s practice includes live percussion performance, electronic music and production, facade projection-mapped video, artistic research, technology and materials fabrication, and the expansive use of animation. Founded in 2015, MASARY is artist-owned and managed.

Website: MASARY

Boston Cyberarts

Boston Cyberarts was founded to organize the Boston Cyberarts Festival, a biennial festival of artists and high-technology professionals from New England and throughout the world. The Festival included exhibitions of visual arts: music, dance, and theatrical performances; film and video presentations; educational programs; and lecture/demonstrations and symposia. Events take place at locations in and around Boston, including theaters, museums, galleries, artists’ studios, educational institutions, and other public spaces. The Festival first took place during the first two weeks of May 1999. The last festival was held in spring 2011.

Website: Boston Cyberarts

MIT Spatial Sound Lab

MIT Spatial Sound Lab is a community studio for making immersive audio productions. They organize listening events, meetups with open decks, and a larger biennial festival called Dissolve Music. Founded in 2019 by Ian Condry, the Lab has production and listening rooms featuring the d&b Soundscape (16.4) and Dolby Atmos (7.1), and they also encourage DIY approaches and experimentation. Spatial sound is a broad category that refers to audio playback that goes beyond traditional stereo, including multichannel, binaural, ambisonics, object-based mixing and more. Their emphasis is on live performances with audiences in shared physical space.

Website: MIT Spatial Sound Lab

AVFX

AVFX is a production company that works collaboratively with meeting planners, event producers, and exhibit designers to deliver exceptional experiences, life-long memories, and lasting relationships. With offices in Boston and Denver, AVFX supports events across the country and understand that your show is the most important one happening anywhere in the world.

Website: AVFX

Illuminus

ILLUMINUS uses the creative process of developing and producing immersive, nighttime public art experiences to enable artists to connect, inspire, and empower their communities. Since 2014, ILLUMINUS has been offering local creatives the resources and technology they need to transform public space through light and projection, augmenting reality to present a city reimagined, at full scale and in real time.

Website: Illuminus