CURIOSITY, PLAY, INNOVATION:
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)’s sonically powered installations at Emerson Contemporary.
On view JUNE 11 – JUNE 14, 2025
We are Emerson College’s platform for showcasing contemporary visual art.
Our focus is on presenting living artists, their ideas, experiments, and creative practices in the areas of media art, performance art, and emergent technologies, while critically examining these works in their social context. Our in-depth engagement with the temporary exhibitions and related public programming is based on the principle that artistic practice is an intellectual activity and works of art are a form of knowledge production. Furthermore, we believe that art is essential in society as it creates dialog, asks questions, and brings people together. At Emerson Contemporary we believe that art, in fact, can help change society.
COMING UP NEXT
Entrainment by Shomit Barua
Meditating on the sonically hypnotic state that often emerges from the repetitious visual, auditory, and haptic polyrhythms of a moving train
Entrainment is one of several installations curated by the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2025, at Emerson Contemporary. The exhibition features a series of powerful spatially relevant audio-visual pieces by a global collection of sonic artists..
June 11th – June 14th, 2025
Foresta-Inclusive: (ex)tending towards by Jane Tingley
A sensor driven work in response to the temporal difference between tree and human individuals, urging us to slow down.
(ex)tending towards is one of several installations curated by the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2025, at Emerson Contemporary. The exhibition features a series of powerful spatially relevant audio-visual pieces by a global collection of sonic artists..
June 11th – June 14th, 2025
Liminal by Zhitao Lin
An AI-driven audiovisual installation that transforms traditional Chinese aesthetics into a generative, interactive experience.
Liminal is one of several installations curated by the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2025, at Emerson Contemporary. The exhibition features a series of powerful spatially relevant audio-visual pieces by a global collection of sonic artists..
June 11th – June 14th, 2025
MELT: the memory of ice by Betsey Biggs
Imagining the inner topography of the world’s melting glaciers, inspired by Ilullisat in Greenland, by Betsey Biggs & Troy Fairbanks.
MELT is one of several installations curated by the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2025, at Emerson Contemporary. The exhibition features a series of powerful spatially relevant audio-visual pieces by a global collection of sonic artists..
June 11th – June 14th, 2025
Just missed it
Entire Nations Are Built
on Fairy Tales
A new exhibition by Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, featuring two films and a meditation pool.
At the Emerson Media Art Gallery from February 4th – March 22nd, 2025
(Un)Making AI Worlds:
Reception & Performances
Artworks that morph theatre, choreographed movements, and poetry with machine learning
Emerson Contemporary collaborates with the Data Fluencies Theatre Project in this creative interrogation of Artificial Intelligence
March 17 – 22nd at the Huret and Spector Gallery
Reception: March 18th 4-6.30 pm
Performance Activations: March 21st and 22nd
The Colors of You & Me
by Elise Guzmán
A multimedia installation that meditates on nostalgia and identity through the use of color & sound.
April 14 – April 17, 2025
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