Join us for [PMF~ 2026], Mar 12-14th, South Bend, Indiana

[Ryan Olivier]

The Performing Media Festival, now in its 10th year, brings together a dynamic lineup of innovative composers, media artists, performers, and technologists for three days of concerts, screenings, and immersive live sets across the city of South Bend. Featuring 36 works by over 40 artists, the festival showcases both emerging voices and internationally recognized artists working at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary creative practices.

This year’s program includes a media reel at the South Bend Museum of Art, an eclectic opening‑night concert, a special guest artist recital featuring David Bird and Beyond This Point, a night of (mostly) black & white media at the Browning Cinema, screenings and an artist panel at the St. Joe County Public Library, and a evening of boundary‑pushing live sets at Langlab. From gesture‑controlled sound environments and real‑time video synthesis to multisensory works addressing ecology, memory, identity, and technology, the festival highlights how contemporary artists are redefining the relationships between sound, image, embodiment, and digital tools.

Across its venues, the Performing Media Festival offers audiences an opportunity to experience today’s most compelling experiments in media performance from delicate minimalist meditations to high‑voltage audiovisual improvisation, while fostering conversation, collaboration, and community. It is a celebration of the artists who shape the future of multimedia performance and a platform for exploring the evolving language of sound and image in the 21st century.

Please see the full program listed below and learn more at www.performingmediafestival.com

I hope you will join us if you are able.

-Ryan Olivier

PMF Co-Founder and [PMF~ 2026] Host

30 sec Festival Trailer: https://youtu.be/kDgCpl06uek?si

1 min Festival Trailer: https://youtu.be/gXVRuuGu8LI?si

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12-5pm, Wed-Sat March 11-14th, Project Room Installation	South Bend Museum of Art
Toby Kaufmann-Buhler	Sawing Sound (study 19)
Julie Zhu and Sanna Fogelvik	Canopy
Alex Christie	appendaged
7pm, Thursday, March 12th, Opening Concert	IU South Bend - Joshi Performance Hall - Northside Hall
Nico Muhly and Una Lorenzen (video) Jason Gresl, clarinet	It Goes Without Saying
Henry Samra	Four months
Robin Cox	Machine
Hsuan Chang Kitano	The Tide
Josif Collazo	:^)
Liam Rodríguez	Hypnagogia
Jacob Southerland	Words that could have been left unspoken
Riley Ham	Perlin Paradise
Eve Beglarian and Zachary Schomburg (text) Matt Perry (video) Jason Gresl, clarinet	Testy Pony
12pm, Friday, March 13th, Special Guest Artists: David Bird & BTP	IU South Bend - Joshi Performance Hall - Northside Hall
David Bird and Myles Emmons (video) Beyond This Point, performers	Decoder
David Bird	Aleatoric Tilt
David Bird and Beyond This Point	Hypochondria
7pm, Friday, March 13th, Black & White Night	Univ of Notre Dame, DeBartolo Perf. Arts Center, Browning Cinema
Nolan Klase	Entropic Étude for 3 Guitars
Sarah LeMieux and Steve Peckman (flute)	we are all one luminous fractal thing
Delilah Smith	and pity
Fabiana Di Maria and Francesco M. D'Alessandro	senescenza/coscienza
Ioannis Panagiorou and Edinburgh Contemporary Ensemble, Jack Walker	Confronting Silence
Jorge Ramos	Falling in Love Again
Timothy J Groff	Night Of the Living Dead: After Death
João Pedro Oliveira	Gardens of Light and Shadow
12pm, Saturday, March 14th, SJCPL Screening	Leighton Auditorium, Main Branch, St Joe County Public Library
Sanjay Majumder	Tessellated Memory: Three Views of a Reconstructing Signal
Karen LaFleur, Techspressionist Artist and Nancy Tucker, Composer	Protostar
Anderinna Gooch	Abstract Elements II
Riley Ham and Lillie Wild	A Heart You Can Hold
Jullian Hoff	Air Kata I - Hands love music
Alessia Damiani and Vincenzo Ascione	Who the Flynn are you?!
Zen Cohen	Desert Ech0000000
Amanda Hergn	Icarus
Justyna Tobera	Spectrestate
Irving and Finn Kinnersley	Levels: Starlings
Jullian Hoff, Sanjay Majumder, and Zen Cohen	PMF Artist Panel
7pm, Saturday, March 14th, Langlab Live Set	Langlab South Bend
Jullian Hoff and Jason Gresl	Verklärter Rohr & Hijack
Kari Watson, Lua Borges, and Kristen Bernier	TETHER
Jack Hamill	Chronopathos