Digital Echoes is an online exhibition of student projects from FINE 247 Expanded Media: Interaction offered at the University of Waterloo in winter 2026 and taught by Xuan Ye with the help of Teaching Assistant Shaikh Shawon Arefin Shimon. The exhibition features work by Albert Wood, Amin Mojtahed, Blythe Krajaefski, Ella Brennan, Emily Chan, Janice Li, Kathy Chen, Keith Tsirkot, Micheal Glazyrin, Muxian Li, Simaran Malhi, Stephanie Daly, Toni Liang, Toral Vaghela, Victory Okusanya, Wilbur Zhang, Youngeun Cho and can be viewed online from April 1 – June 27, 2026.
Using visual programming software TouchDesigner, students explore interaction by integrating sounds and moving images, and working with real-time data feeds through projects such as an audio-reactive visual system, motion tracking, and other human-computer interactions.
Within the world of Digital Echoes, every space resonates with questions: how does technology mediate, alter, or extend our experience of reality? Here, projects unravel the threads of online identity, transform climate anxiety into swirling digital landscapes, and give voice and colour to the hidden rhythms of our virtual lives.
ECHO00_convergence gathers fleeting sketches from a semester’s collective imagination. ECHO001 to ECHO009 emerged as interactive installations, first envisioned for a CAVE (computer-assisted virtual environment), a room alive with XY motion-tracking. When the physical walls refused to hold us, we bounced, and we became echoes ourselves, seeking new resonance in virtual chambers. In New Art City, the ethos of the WWW reverberates: attention and willingness to wander become the echo, a digital ripple long after the window closes.