WaveForms: A Multimedia Art Occurrence

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.

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.

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.

Illuminus is a platform for emerging Boston-based artists to create experiential new works in the neighborhoods they call home. Born when a hundred artists, creatives, and technologists gathered to conceive a "by us, for us" digital art festival, Illuminus transformed city blocks into new visions of reality through projection mapping and public art. Since its first festival, Illuminus has attracted over 200,000 visitors, supported 350+ artists, and produced 250+ site-specific installations across Greater Boston. One neighborhood at a time, the organization enables local creatives to connect their communities through art by equipping them with new technologies, techniques, resources, and networks that activate the city's creative talent.

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.

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, Denver, and Orlando, AVFX supports events across the country and understand that your show is the most important one happening anywhere in the world.