PARTICLE+WAVE 2026: Opening Reception
Get ticketsJoin us for the first event of PARTICLE+WAVE!
This year’s exhibition showcases the incredible range of technological possibilities in contemporary media art, highlighting both the tools and the conceptual frameworks that shape the field today. Together, these works reveal how media art continues to evolve, embracing new technologies, experimental processes, and participatory frameworks to expand the ways we perceive, experience, and reflect on the world.
Their gallery and offices are once again transformed with the work of:
- TTES: The ROM Collection – Teresa Tam (BFA '14, Media and Technologies)
Using repurposed Gameboy hardware and DIY tools, TTES: The ROM Collection explores bootlegging, ancestral memory, and cultural transmission through fragmented, 8-bit “read-only memories” that can be accessed but never fully understood. - S4M4R3S – aenl (Anna Eyler & Nicolas Lapointe)
S4M4R3S is a durational installation that pairs a 12-hour looping digital landscape with an unpredictable daily thermal print, quietly materializing time through repetition, anticipation, and accumulation. - Twenty Twenty-Five – Ghazal Majidi
Twenty Twenty-Five is an interactive digital mirror that maps the viewer’s body onto an archive of airstrike imagery, confronting the ethics of spectatorship and the mediated consumption of distant violence. Firefly – Audrey Burch (BFA '17, Media and Technologies) & Ileana Park
Firefly is a participatory, wearable installation where light-responsive devices communicate through proximity, transforming collective movement into emergent patterns of play and connection.*Please note Firefly is only available for viewing tonight and during the Performance and Screening Night.
- Meter & Light: Night – Zain Alam
Meter & Light: Night is a three-channel audiovisual installation that immerses viewers in the nocturnal rhythms of Muslim life, using sound, movement, and light to convey a nonlinear experience of time, ritual, and devotion.
