WaveForms 2026 Digital Program
WaveForms returns for its third year to present a multimedia art occurrence at Emerson Paramount Center in Boston, MA. Presented by the Museum of Science, MASARY Studios, and Emerson College, the evening features installation artwork, audio visual performance, spatial sound, experimental animation, and video screenings from artists around the globe and region 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 Emerson Paramount Center. There are five tracks of curated media artworks taking place at once – see the event programming and maps to choose what to experience throughout the night.
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
AV Production Partner – AVFX
Video and photos are encouraged throughout the event except for the film & animation screenings. Feel free to tag the artists and partners when sharing your experience!For more information visit: www.waveforms.media
There are 4 different tracks of artworks taking place at once which include recurring showings like Spatial Sound Mixtape, Film / Animation Screenings, Outdoor LED Media Facade, and select Installation Artworks. These showings coincide with one time showings in the RJO Theater which begin with a series of Installation Artworks in the beginning and then shifts into 3 different AV performances.
Video + Animation Screening — Bright Family Screening Room
Spatial Sound Mixtape — Jackie Liebergott Black Box
Audio Visual Performance — Robert J. Orchard Theater
Installation Artworks — Lobby’s and RJO Theater
LED Media Facade — Exterior Paramount Center Facade
programming intentionally overlaps with a robust schedule allowing guests to weave and establish a self guided experience within each area.
Bright Family Screening Room
Boston Cyberarts curated 15 works of experimental animation and video art from regional + international artists through an Open Call. Presented on the 4th FLOOR in the Bright Family Screening Room at Emerson Paramount Center. These artists were selected through an open call juried by Georgie Friedman, Jeffu Warmouth, and Valerie Guinn Polgar of Boston Cyberarts.
Program 1 Artists
Screening 6:15pm – 6:45pm & 8:15pm – 8:45pm
Alexi Scheiber (Baltimore, Maryland), The Dreaming World, 2025
Guadalupe Arellanes (Los Angeles, CA), Repertoire of Death, 2025
Kameo Chambers (Philadelphia, PA), Alien IRL, 2024
Sampsa Pirtola (Helsinki, Finland and Hudson, New York), Hearing Colors, 2023
Dora Siafla (Greece), Hidden in the Bloom, 2025
Sarah Turner (Santa Fe, NM), But…You’re A Dolphin!, 2024
Meshal Al-Obaidallah (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), IMG_0220: Physical Preservations of a Once-Lost Internet Video, 2026
Program 2 Artists
Screening 7:15pm – 7:45pm & 9:15pm – 9:45pm
Paolo Glen (United kingdom), Hoofstock, 2025
Wu Siou Ming (Taiwan), Infinity Evolving World – V1, 2025
David Anthony Sant (Australia), for it will be no more, 2025
Mohamed Thara (Bordeaux and Paris, France), An egg, the white is gone but the yellow remains, 2024
Parham Ghalamdar (Manchester, UK), Angels Don’t Die In Multiplayer, 2025
Jingyusn Yang (Shanghai, China), Crying Machine, 2025
Krista Steinke & Meg Cook (Houston, TX), U-SCOPIC, 2024
Sandrine Deumier (France), Memories for an unstable future, 2023
Robert J. Orchard Theater
Audio visual performances take place three times throughout the night within Robert J. Orchard Theater.
07:30 – 08:00pm
LANDMINE ft. JAMES OFFUTT + JANI PERRY
08:30 – 09:00pm
09:30 – 10:00pm
Jackie Liebergott Black Box
Lobby’s and RJO STAGE
Illuminus Boston & MASARY has curated artists to present their installation media artworks. Located through out the multi floor lobby’s and select works from 6pm-7pm on the RJO Theater stage.
Asma Khoshmehr – “Act.No.06: 1001 Nights in Zanzibar”
MASARY– “Korobeiniki”
Daniel Pillis and his Emerson students are taking over the RJO stage from 6:00pm – 7:00pm to present a multimedia installation series. Artworks will be from Daniel and his 9 students: Louie McGill, Avery Cather, Claire Downey, Ella Moss, Emery Frost, Liam Smith, Sophie Dodd, Tim Belyavskey, & Yuxiao Yao.
PARAMOUNT EXTERIOR CENTER FACADE
15 Minute Program from 6:00pm – 10:00pm
Dashiell Alexande – My Lillie, Staircase
Josh Fox – Bluestripe, Splitting Atoms
Khatima Bulmer – Thoughts of Blue
Yang Han – Bounce
Aldo Tambelini (1930 – 2020) – Black Out
John Powell (1948 – 2020) – T-Ball
James Manning – Dirty Pixels
Brian Knep – Rapture
John Craig Freeman – Big Daddy Watching
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