Presented by Museum of Science Boston, WaveForms 2026 is hosted at the Emerson Paramount Center on February 12, 2026 • 6pm-10pm. The event programming takes place through curatorial partnerships featuring five distinct artwork tracks:

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.

Visit the program below the schedule and click the + symbol to reveal artists & info.

Video + Animation ScreeningS — 4th floor
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.

AUDIO VISUAL PERFORMANCE — 2nd floor
Robert j. Orchard Theater

Audio visual performances take place three times throughout the night within Robert J. Orchard Theater.

  • 7:30pm - 8:00pm

    Tayquan Pomare-Taylor AKA LandMine is a krumper, dancer, visual artist, philosopher, and community organizer. He finds inspiration in community, mental health, education and motivation towards self awareness and development.

    Featuring James Offutt & Jani Perry, Landmine is creating an immersive interactive installation that merges krump dance with video game technology.

  • 8:30pm - 9:00pm

    The act of listening has always held a central role in Skooby’s work as an artist and designer. As a film composer and field recordist, his contributions to documentary film aims to bring depth and resonance to the subject matter. His DJing and music production for the club space delivers a visceral experience, with the goal of igniting euphoric communal movement and embodied listening. His most recent work and research in biodata sonification and active listening has helped listeners create a stronger kinship with Nature and aided in their restorative practices of yoga and meditation.

    MASARY is a Boston-based, artist‑owned collective founded in 2015. They’re a transdisciplinary studio reimagining environments through immersive, site-specific installations that blend sound, light, interactivity, and performance. From percussion-driven live shows and electronic music production to projection‑mapped visuals and material fabrication, their work merges artistic research with cutting‑edge technology and media expressions.

  • 9:30pm - 10:00pm

    Musician Switch Angel and visual artist LOFI_SCIFI merge their talents to create instinctive, engaging audiovisual performances through programming and new media practices. Switch Angel's live coded electronic music layers intricate melodies and deep rhythms, which intertwines with LOFI_SCIFI's sublime, evolving live visuals; creating visceral audio-visual landscapes. The evolving relationship between programming, music, and visual art is at the forefront of their creative exploration.

SPATIAL SOUND MIXTAPE — 2nd floor
Jackie Liebergott Black Box

MIT Spatial Sound Lab curated and mixed spatial sound works to be played back through 4.1 channel spatial audio in the Studio 105 Sound Lab. This Listening Mixtape is played back four times through the evening on the hour.

INSTALLATION ARTWORKS — ALL FLOORS
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.

  • Located ground floor lobby.

    “Act.No.06: 1001 Nights in Zanzibar”
    Asma Khoshmehr

    Interactive installation incorporating 3D LiDAR laser scanning and real-time interaction

    Contributor: Louie McGill

    An interactive installation that uncovers the silenced stories of forced marriages and political persecution following the Zanzibar Revolution of 1964. The work explores a 1971 presidential decree that allowed officials to forcibly marry underage girls, including many women in the artist’s family. These policies led to deportation, imprisonment, confiscation of family properties, and decades of silence about the trauma endured. Asma, the first in her generation to uncover this hidden history, conducted years of research, discovering the secret stories of many women in her family impacted by these events. She traveled across Tanzania, Kenya, Oman, UAE, and Iran to gather testimonies, family documents, and archival records, piecing together her family’s survival through forced marriages, captivity, and eventual escape.

  • Located on the RJO Theater Stage 6:00pm - 7:00pm.

    Daniel Pillis is an interdisciplinary researcher and artist specializing in generative AI, social robots, mixed reality, and interactive computer graphics. 

    Daniel and his Emerson students are taking over the RJO stage from 6:00pm - 7:00pm to present a multi media 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.

  • Located on 2nd floor lobby.

    Lina Maria Giraldo is a Colombian-born, Boston-based designer, interactive media artist, and storyteller with a Co-design, Civic Media, Art, and Technology background. 

    She is currently an Assistant Professor of Data Visualization at the Journalism Department at Emerson College. Her work focuses on interactive storytelling for social change through immersive tools and research. With a diverse body of work, ranging from digital educational tools, data visualization, grassroots storytelling, public installations, and screen-based computer-generated work, Lina’s work explores questions related to identity, including a focus on Latino and Haitian experiences in the US; the environmental impact of consumption including projects focusing on e-waste; and the extinction of birds through the power of collective storytelling. Over the last 15 years, her work has focused on creating messages where she portrays our environment’s fragility, community, equality, and immigration concerns. She likes to think of her work as a visual tool with an educational and civic purpose.

  • Located on 4th floor.

    “Korobeiniki”
    Created by MASARY

    MIDI notes and architecture meet in a musical conversation without sound. This study in rhythm, melody and harmony is an extension of MASARY's interests in perception as related to audio - visual relationships.

    MASARY is a Boston-based, artist‑owned collective founded in 2015. They’re a transdisciplinary studio reimagining environments through immersive, site-specific installations that blend sound, light, interactivity, and performance. From percussion-driven live shows and electronic music production to projection‑mapped visuals and material fabrication, their work merges artistic research with cutting‑edge technology and media expressions.