EDAA Virtual Launch

Caldera features the five winning artworks of the 2025 Emerging Digital Artists Award as part of the MacKenzie Art Gallery’s experimental digital exhibition series. These emerging artists engage with themes of yearning, memory and dislocation to envision speculative futures that resist contemporary political trajectories. Through digitally-rendered objects, game design, photogrammetry, and immersive reality techniques, they create environments that help us envision our precarious present as a site of potential and possibility.

The award-winning works are presented within an abandoned luxury spa located in the caldera of a volcano – a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber during a volcanic eruption. Within this imagined environment created by 2025 EDAA featured artist Adrienne Matheuszik, the exhibition serves as a visual metaphor for the shared experience of seeking reprieve from a world brimming with volatility. Through the lens of digital art, the artists offer us a glimpse of possible pathways through destruction and loss towards transformation.