EMMEDIA is proud to present PARTICLE + WAVE, media arts festival featuring local, national and international media artists, in partnership with TELUS Spark Science Centre.Particle + Wave 2026 brings together a dynamic group of artists whose works unfold through time, interaction, and embodied experience, inviting visitors to slow down, return often, and engage deeply with media art in motion. Featuring TTES: The ROM Collection by Teresa TamleARN MORE Group Exhibition at EMMEDIAFebruary 20th to April 11th, 2026Opening Reception on Friday, February 20th at 6PM and Friday, March 27th at 6PMGallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 12PM to 6PMFree AdmissionThis year’s exhibition features S4M4R3S by aenl (Anna Eyler & Nicolas Lapointe), a durational installation where a 12-hour pixelated landscape plays out alongside a suspended thermal printer that unpredictably releases daily prints, quietly materializing the passage of time;Meter & Light: Night by Zain Alam, an immersive three-channel audiovisual environment that captures the nocturnal rhythms, rituals, and spiritual cycles of Muslim life through sound, movement, and light;TTES: The ROM Collection by Teresa Tam, which repurposes Gameboy hardware, e-paper screens, and DIY tools to explore bootlegging, ancestral memory, and the incomplete ways cultural knowledge is transmitted;Twenty Twenty-Five by Ghazal Majidi, an interactive digital mirror that maps the viewer’s body against an archive of airstrike imagery, confronting questions of spectatorship, distance, and ethical seeing;and Firefly by Audrey Burch & Ileana Park, a playful, wearable installation where light-responsive devices communicate with one another, transforming collective movement into emergent patterns and shared moments of discovery.Together, these works make Particle + Wave 2025 an exhibition that resists spectacle in favor of attention, presence, and participation. An experience that changes the longer you stay, and the more often you return. Featuring pakone-kisik by Tyson Houseman buY TICKETS screening and PERFORMANCE NIGHTWHEN: Friday, March 6th at 6PMWHERE: TELUS Spark Science Centre, 220 Saint George's Drive Northeast Calgary, AB T2E5T2TICKETS: Tiers of $15, $25 and $40- Parking includedIf price is a barrier, reach out to us!Screening Package:Featuring innovative short films, immersive visuals, and radical experimentation: THE SIGHT IS A WOUND by Parham Ghalandar Goin' Down The Road by Brian Donnelly Don't Forget the Water by Christina Hajjar Across the Lake/Kòe Ô͘ by Sandrine Deumier and Cia Himiân Lí Sojourn by Stacey Sproule Agogalyptic Splat by Linda Loh Infinite Realms by MohammadAli Famori nocturne by Zoë LeBrun a beaten path by Natalie Baird and Toby Gillies Unbalanced Frequencies by Meghana Iyer Performance Package:A trio of extraordinary live works that reshape how we experience sound, movement, and space:Molecular Incantations // Sympathetic Telepathy (MIST) by erψn temp3st blends dance, sound, and object interaction to explore queer materiality and the intimate resonance between bodies, space, and vibration through amplified movement, feedback, and experimental sonic choreography.pakone-kisik by Tyson Houseman is a live video performance that uses multi-camera feedback, cymatic water, and liquid ink manipulations to transform intimate, micro-scale visuals into immersive cosmic imagery inspired by nêhiyaw star maps and the Pleiades “hole-in-the-sky” portal.The Snare Drum Project by Mikołaj Rytowski is an immersive multi-sensory performance and installation that reimagines percussion by combining twenty spatially arranged snare drums with light and sound to create a deeply felt, interactive experience.
