Meet the artists who bring Mount Auburn Cemetery from darkness to light - Fall 2024
by Cate McQuaid | Boston Globe
Boston, MA — On the darkest nights of the year, Mount Auburn Cemetery will be awash with light, sound, and art, as MASARY Studios presents its fourth annual “SOLSTICE: Reflections on Winter Light” December program there.
New media artist Caleb Hawkins sculpts with light - FALL 2024
by Andrea Shea | WBUR
Boston, MA — Some artists use paint or clay as mediums of expression, but Caleb Hawkins works with architecture, technology, algorithms and light. As design director at MASARY Studios, he executes luminescent, large-scale art installations.
Cycling ‘74 - An Interview with MASARY STUDIOS
by Josh Weatherspoon| Cycling ‘74
Boston, MA — Join Jeremy Stewart and Odie DeSmith of MASARY Studios as they pull back the curtain on three innovative public art installations powered with Max. Discover how they use Max as an engine and a bridge with other technologies to create meaningful experiences in public spaces.
BERKLEE TODAY - Summer 2024
by Berklee Today
Boston, MA — MASARY cofounder and principal, Ryan Edwards, featured in Berklee Today speaking about media artworks and interactive sound and light instrument, Sound Sculpture. Page 28.
MASARY Studios Joins Forces with Non-Profit FirstWorks to Bring “Recursion and Release” Multimedia Performance Installation to Providence Church
by Epson America
Grace Church - Providence, RI — MASARY Studios brought the flexibility and nuance of the human voice together with real-time audio analysis, signal manipulation and audio-reactive video to allow all the parts of the art to be in conversation with each other.
SOLSTICE returns - WBUR
by Andrea Shea
MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY - CAMBRIDGE, MA — A large-scale, luminescent art installation returns this weekend to its novel venue. “Solstice: Reflections on Winter Light” attracted more than 8,000 visitors to Mount Auburn Cemetery last year, in its debut. Now, what started as an experiment, has been dubbed a holiday tradition.
Ritual / System at the Museum of Science, Boston
by Notch
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE - BOSTON, MA — The MASARY team wanted to create something specific to the 360-degree canvas and seating arrangement, approaching atmospheres that questioned human understanding of sound and visual form.
The immersive exhibition that you cannot miss this summer 2023 is in Antara
BY CNCC
MEXICO CITY, MX — Like a space surrounded by strips of lights that go from the ceiling to the floor, the imagination becomes a journey where the senses fly without limits and emotions find their most authentic expression. It is an experience to discover how art can open new doors towards self-knowledge and fun.
Creating Art By Creating Memories
BOSTON, MA — Stewart says the project came out of a philosophical discussion. “What does it mean to create new memories of a particular place and to remember something in relation to what’s happening in the present?” What they created was a technological response to Henri Bergson’s idea that we are constantly creating memories, detailed representations of what we see as we move through the world.
CELEBRATING YOU: THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF ARTS AND CULTURE'S 2022 YEAR IN REVIEW – Boston.Gov
BOSTON, MA — At Boston Arts Academy (BAA), you helped us commission artworks that complemented the school’s new state-of-the-art facility in the Fenway neighborhood. The Artist Selection Committee included representatives from the Boston Art Commission, local arts professionals representing the neighborhood, and professional and student end-users of the project site.
A solstice celebration comes to Mount Auburn Cemetery – GBH NEWs
by Jared Bowen & Molly McCaul
BOSTON, MA — Presented by MASARY Studios, an artist collective that focuses on interactive performance art, "Solstice: Reflections on Winter Light" is an annual light and sound installation in Mount Auburn Cemetery. Bowen calls the installation “absolutely mesmerizing,” and that everyone should “stop what you’re doing now and get your tickets.”
A ‘SOLSTICE’ for the senses at Mount auburn cemetery in cambridge – THE Boston globe
by Maya Homan
BOSTON, MA — “We hope that [attendees] can make connections to themselves, to their families, to the environment and universe at large, while also kind of connecting and recognizing the cyclical nature of time that we’re in around the winter solstice,” Okerstrom-Lang said.
Making memories: Past collides with present in Boston Arts Academy interactive installation – THE BAY STATE BANNER
by Celina Colby
BOSTON, MA — “We’re using some of the newer technology to create the piece, but we see the themes of memory as being really connected to the students throughout their high school experience, as well as to the experience of learning,” says Hawkins. “I think it also serves to add a level of inspiration to students who are pursuing creative crafts.”
ÜNI Public Art at Boston Ballet – NOTCH
by Notch
BOSTON, MA — One key to their success was iteration: MASARY tested over forty designs for the overall structure. They trialled dome content through a VR headset before building the structure for an in-person experience. The team then created most of the audio in Ableton Live. They made the visuals using green-screen footage of Boston Ballet dancers, which they pieced together with Adobe Premiere, After Effects, and Notch.
Boston Ballet’s ÜNI Public Art offers 360-degree views of dance under a portable dome – Boston Globe
by Karen Campbell and Maya Homan
BOSTON, MA — With a new pop-up initiative, Boston Ballet is taking its artistry out of Citizens Bank Opera House and into the streets, hoping, as artistic director Mikko Nissinen says, “to meet people where they are,” bringing them together and challenging preconceived notions about ballet.
MASARY Transforms Voices into Art for Canal Convergence – PRESS Release
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BOSTON, MA — MASARY Studios, in partnership with Scottsdale Arts and leveraging Epson Pro Series laser projectors, will install a monumental public artwork at the annual Canal Convergence | Water + Art + Light in Scottsdale, Arizona.
MASARY Studios Lit up the Streets of Scottsdale with Community-Driven Art Installation – projection central
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Illuminating the streets of Scottsdale, Ariz. with captivating, light-based artwork, MASARY Studios combined a collaborative multimedia instrument with large-scale projection mapping using high-performance Epson Pro Series laser projectors.
Masary Studios celebrates nomination for 2021 Lumen Prize for New Bedford art installation – The standard times
"We’re honored to have our Vessels project recognized by the Lumen Prize. This type of exposure really elevates the hard-working New Bedford fishing community in a way they deserve," said Ryan Edwards and Sam Okerstrom-Lang of Masary Studios.
MASARY Studios Illuminates Scottsdale With Projector Mapping Installation - LIVE DESIGN Installation
by Gurpreet Bhoot
Intended to connect people during a time of social distancing and bridge the gap between artists and the community, Massively Distributed included a site-specific web-based app instrument accessible across laptops, tablets and smartphones.
DATMA returns with a second year of summer programming with LIGHT 2020 - WGBH OPen Studio with Jared bowen 2020
produced by WGBH Open Studio / Jared Bowen
Lindsay Mis, executive director of DATMA sits down with Emmy Award Winner Jared Bowen to talk about their summer art programming Light 2020, VESSELS, Photo Kinetic Grid, and New Bedford, MA.
MASARY Studios’ ‘Vessels’ a reflection of NB fishing community - south coast today 2020
by Don Wilkinson
By looking at ships as grand characters in the story of the port of New Bedford, the MASARY artists note that the work is “an abstraction and aesthetic reconsideration of what is a ubiquitous expression of the local landscape.”
Where to safely see art? Motor up to New Bedford’s downtown light show - Boston Globe 2020
by Grace Griffin
“The idea was to bring the waterfront to downtown and try to connect this important world that many people in New Bedford never see,” Miś said.
VESSELS is active from June 22 - August 1
DATMA’s LIGHT 2020 Brings Art, Design, and Technology to “the City That Lit the World” - Hyperallergic 2020
“VESSELS” by MASARY Studios is a large-scale sound and video artwork celebrating the vital role that the city’s fishing industry plays in local and global economies.”
Protesting police violence with big, bright art - Boston globe 2020
By: Cate McQuaid
“Hawkins and Okerstrom-Lang, of MASARY Studios, an installation art collective, had just finished working on pop-up dance videos for Urbanity Dance, powering projections with a car battery, when the #BLM protests started. They looked at their portable projector and saw an ideal protest tool.”
The INternet of musical things — how proffessional artists are harnessing i0t Particle Stories 2020
By: Jeffrey Lee
“He was never interested in just playing music with other musicians or singers, it had to be something interactive. In fact, his work is often haptic, creating community, agency, and participation through new-media and technology like IoT.”
Urbanity Dance is projecting pop-up dance videos, powered by car battery, onto Boston buildings Boston Globe May 2020
By: Karen Campbell
“Over the next three weeks, an intriguing marriage of movement, music, video, and artificial intelligence will dance on the sides of buildings in neighborhoods across Greater Boston.”
Teknopolis brings VR, Interactive Art, and Singing Clones to BAM BKLYNER. February 2020
By: Ben Masten
“Interactive art can’t be finished, it can only be prepared,” says Ryan Edwards, a creative director, and composer at the Boston-based Masary studios.
Making The Singing Bridge Sing: How'd They Do That? Cincinnati Public Radio. October 2019
By: Bill Rinehart
"This is a light display in a civic settling. One of the closest parallels is a fireworks display. But then also it's a score. There's an intention. There's a linear quality. There are themes. There's a relevance to the bridge and to the city."
Massart stories: Sam okerstrom-lang massart. Fall 2018
By: Massachusetts College of Art & Design
After graduating from MassArt, Samo was commissioned to create large-scale public works for the first two Illuminus Boston events. After this experience, he founded Masary Studios with Maria Finkelmeier and Ryan Edwards.
These Artists Made Stunning Music Videos Inside the Edison Power Plant. Boston Magazine. September 2018
By Noor Adatia
“We wanted to use the Edison Power Plant as a canvas and a stage to both act as a character and collaborator,” says Sam Okerstrom-Lang, who’s responsible for Masary Studios’ light animations.
Awakening Cities: Transforming the Built Environment with Sound & Light. Design Museum Magazine. September 2018
By Anastasya Partan
There is never a precedent for a MASARY event. “We build every project from the ground up,” says Maria, and MASARY’s fast-growing portfolio of interactive, experiential art, and design works around the city attests to this credo. This means that everything has to be figured out project by project. If the space they are transforming through sight, sound, and physical objects calls for a new creative solution, MASARY invests countless hours in learning the new technology or methods they believe will bring that environment to life and allow audiences to experience its full potential. There are no rules – and few creative constraints.
Harsh is Truth. National Parks Magazine. Summer 2018
By Melanie D.G. Kaplan
The heart of the installation was a 40-minute piece of original music and site-specific animation that supported the pedestrian recordings and the words of Douglass, Jesse Jackson, and poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron, which were simultaneously performed and projected onto the wall. The location was carefully chosen: The meeting house has served as a space to protest and debate since colonists demonstrated against the tea tax and abolitionists debated slave owners.
The Business of Pubic (art)Work. Americans for the arts. April 2018
Submitted by MASARY Studios
As creators, it is important to hold on to our integrity, knowing that the lens through which we approach new projects is looked through as artists first. Our conceptual approach has a lot to do with this role, asking ourselves questions about a site or building like “What if it could speak, what would it say? What if it could move, how would it dance?” Questions like these help us hold onto the notions that our art has meaning and beauty through a means of creating a piece that is aesthetically pleasing and has an intellectual purpose.
Illuminus Will Transform Fenway’s Green Monster into a Percussion Instrument. Boston Magazine. September 2015
By Olga Khvan
Titled “Waking the Monster,” an upcoming art installation will bring together a group of New England-based musicians, composers, and visual artists to transform the Fenway Park wall into a giant percussion instrument. Interspersed throughout three levels of the famed structure, 15 percussionists—some inside, suspended on harnesses—will “play” six original works on the Green Monster with drumsticks and mallets, and each strike will activate sound-reactive lighting and visual projections.
