A coalition of Boston-based media arts organizations partnering to offer curation, mentorship, and production expertise to artists.
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.
Among the world's largest science centers, and one of New England’s most attended cultural institutions, the Museum of Science engages 1.4 million visitors a year to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) through interactive exhibits and programs. Nearly an additional 2 million people experience the Museum annually through touring exhibitions, Traveling Programs, Planetarium productions and preK-8 EiE® STEM curricula through the William and Charlotte Bloomberg Science Education Center. Established in 1830, the Museum is home to such iconic exhibits as the Theater of Electricity, the Charles Hayden Planetarium, and the Mugar Omni Theater. The Museum influences formal and informal STEM education through research and national advocacy, as a strong community partner and loyal educator resource, and as a leader in universal design, developing exhibits and programming accessible to all.
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. Event take place at locations in and around Boston, including theatres, museums, galleries, artists’ studios, educational institutions, and other public spaces. The Festival first took place during the first two weeks in May 1999. The last festival was held in Spring 2011.
ILLUMINUS uses the creative process of developing and producing immersive, nighttime public art experiences to enable artists to connect, inspire, and empower their communities. Since 2014, ILLUMINUS has been offering local creatives the resources and technology they need to transform public space through light and projection, augmenting reality to present a city reimagined, at full scale and in real time.
MIT Spatial Sound Lab is a community studio for making immersive audio productions. We 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 we 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. Our 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 and Denver, we support events across the country. We understand that your show is the most important one happening anywhere in the world.
Boston Lyric Opera is dedicated to making opera for everyone. Now in its 48th Season, BLO brings award-winning productions and free programs for audiences year-round. Through long-standing music education partnerships with local public schools, open student dress rehearsals, and unique community projects created with partners like Artists for Humanity, Boston Children’s Museum, The Greenway, and the Japan Society of Boston, BLO uses opera to celebrate the stories and voices of our diverse communities. At its heart, opera is collaborative innovation, and BLO is proud to employ 800+ creative professionals annually as part of Boston’s thriving cultural landscape.
Fundamental to the arts in Boston is a place for artists to work and live. That place is Midway Artist Studios, Boston’s largest affordable work-live artist building, with 89 work-live artist studios and a ground floor of cultural space and facilities located in the Fort Point Arts Neighborhood in Boston, just a short walk from South Station. Midway Artists Studios enables artists to devote their energy to artistic endeavors, creating art that might not otherwise have been created, in a city where rapidly rising real estate costs have put unprecedented pressure on artists desiring to remain in Boston. In 2014, the artists organized to purchase the building, making it a permanent rental artist- controlled building, run by a board of directors, elected in part by the artist residents themselves. We are excited to be celebrating the 10th year of Midway Artist Collective ownership and operations of the building.