Dear Friends -
As spring arrives, we are thankful for longer days, and new life - Lord knows we need new life in leadership in this country whose promise for freedom and equality has yet to be fulfilled. Here’s to the energy to sustain whatever you do, even in trying times. Here’s to peace and ease for all, especially for children everywhere. Here’s to healing for our Earth.
Our studio has been hustling hard as this new year crested into 2026. We debuted two new projects in NYC, and a third is about to launch this month. We debuted our first large-scale collaboration with Boston Lyric Opera, and produced the third annual WaveForms - our new-media community building event, this time hosted by our new BFF Emerson College. We are thrilled to be celebrating one of our most ambitious projects as well—Your Light is Central—in our beloved Central Square, Cambridge (note the fete at Street Theory coming up April 16). More on all this linked below and on the socials.
This month we will be teasing a new, bigger-than-anything project coming to our region. Keep an eye on our social media feeds for the poetry, collaborators, and mission as we begin to publicly make the case for something we have been quietly working on for years.
Whatever your work, whatever your hustle, we hope you are continually finding meaning, that those around you recognize you, and your work and energy continue to contribute to a better and better world.
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Patterned Behavior
At the heart of one of Manhattan's busiest thoroughfare, Patterned Behavior invited the public to slow down and participate in this interactive light and sound artwork, re-tuning them to their surroundings. This artwork used real-time computer vision systems with sound and lighting fixtures to represent traffic across the plaza at the north side of Union Square Park.
In this public space, the movement, steps, pauses, and gatherings activated illumination and tones that would ripple across the plaza building architecture, revealing the hidden rhythms of this historic urban site. Peter Koloff describes it best - "The installation reveals something simple and easy to miss. Attention has not disappeared. It is conditional. When an environment removes the incentive to broadcast, people naturally turn inward. MASARY Studios does not compete with the noise of the city. The work listens to it and reflects it back in a way that feels calm rather than commanding." Read his full article below.
Presented by Union Square Partnership with support from NYC Parks and NYC Small Business Services. It was such a joy to create this as our NYC public art debut with incredible partners and such a vibrant area of the city!
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WaveForms 2026
Looking back on Waveforms 2026. The third rendition of Boston’s multimedia art occurrence. This experience brought together artists, partners, and community at the iconic Paramount Center in downtown Boston.
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New Work: In Every Transition, A Pattern
Celebrating In Every Transition, A Pattern. Our most recent public light installation which reflects the energy of Downtown Brooklyn through an evolving composition of light driven by the local pulse of the area.
This project was presented by the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership and was supported in part by NYC Small Business Services. We were proud to work with them for this artwork’s debut in the Big Apple!
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RSVP: YLIC Celebration Party! April 16
RSVP now for the Your Light is Central party. In celebration of a public light art series with the Central Square BID. The event takes place April 16 at Street Theory Collective, 541 Mass Ave in Central Square Cambridge.
Come by to get down with us and our partners at the Central Square BID as we celebrate our ongoing collaboration on this epic urban lighting initiative.
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Boston Lyric Opera's Song of the Earth
Thrilled to have worked with Boston Lyric Opera on their recent production of Song of the Earth (Das Lied von der Erde) by Gustav Mahler, conducted by David Angus and directed by Anne Bogart.
This piece was BLO’s debut performance at their new Opera + Community Studio right here at the Midway building in Fort Point. This work was an intimate staging of one of Mahler’s last works, featuring a third character (the Mother) introduced by Anne to drive an interwoven story that is so human.
Read our latest blog post on this collaboration where studio principal Ryan Edwards details our work with super-titles, projection, and design for the opera.
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“Nature is beautiful, not because it changes beautifully, but simply because it changes.”
Nam June Paik
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