EMMEDIA and TELUS Spark Science Centre are proud to present the 11th PARTICLE + WAVE, Media Arts Festival!EMMEDIA is home to the only media arts festival in Alberta that focuses on interactive art, projection mapping, AR and VR, and audio-visual installations and performances. Since 2012, this annual festival showcases an art form that, by its very nature, is constantly evolving and growing with the integration of ever-changing technological processes. In this 2026 edition, we invite you to slow down, experience, confront and discover new perspectives. Media Arts Exhibition WHEN: February 20th to March 11th, 2026 WHERE: EMMEDIA JOIN US Artist Talk with Ghazal Majidi and Zain Alam WHEN: February 21st at 2PM WHERE: EMMEDIA SIGN UP Performance + Screening Night WHEN: March 6th at 6PM WHERE: TELUS Spark Science Centre tickets Between Learning and Doing Workshop BY Mikolaj Rytowski WHEN: March 5th at 6PM WHERE: EMMEDIA SIGN UP THE AMPLIFIED INVISIBLE WORKSHOP BY ERYN TEMP3ST WHEN: March 7th at 2PM WHERE: Decidedly Jazz Danceworks SIGN UP MEMORY + NOSTALGIA CURATED BY MACKENZIE BEDFORD WHEN: March 27th at 6PM WHERE: EMMEDIA LEARN MORE Featuring TTES: The ROM Collection by Teresa TamleARN MORE Group Exhibition at EMMEDIA February 20th to March 21st, 2026 Opening Reception on Friday, February 20th at 6PM Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 12PM to 6PM Free Admission This 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. Featuring pakone-kisik by Tyson Houseman buY TICKETS screening and PERFORMANCE NIGHT WHEN: Friday, March 6th at 6PM WHERE: TELUS Spark Science Centre, 220 Saint George's Drive Northeast Calgary, AB T2E5T2 TICKETS: Tiers of $15, $25 and $40- Parking included If price is a barrier, reach out to us! 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. 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 Thank you to our jury members, Val Duncan, Jiwoo Kim, Sohfi Janz, Kenzie Housego, Laura Anzola, Levin Ifko, Dan Hudson, Winona Julian, Mark Werklund, Matthew Waddell and Diane Din Ebongue, for selecting this year's exhibition, performances and screenings. Featuring Out of Reach by Nicole SantangeloleARN MORE MEMORY + NOSTALGIA, CURATED BY MACKENZIE BEDFORD March 27th to April 11th, 2026 Opening Reception on Friday, March 27th at 6PM Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 12PM to 6PM Free Admission Reminiscence by Jacqueline Huskisson is an immersive installation that uses projected, shifting comic panels to explore how memory, especially shaped by grief and loss, fragments, drifts, and resists permanence.Out of Reach by Nicole Santangelo channels the artists' emotions into an act of prayer and remembrance, focusing on a departed relative. Projections flicker between reality and illusion, embodying the intangible nature of memories and emotions. Play it Again by Meryl Prendergast uses my personal family archive to explore how we represent history in a way that makes it felt.
