Haptic Horizons Art Symposium 2026

Presented by Centre[3] and VibraFusionLab

Sensorial Plurality, featuring Connor Yuzwenko-Martin, Ebony Gooden, Olivia Brouwer, Salima Punjani, Kim Fullerton, and Willy Le Maitre Curated by David Bobier

Haptic Horizons Art Symposium

February 27 – March 1, 2026
Spice Factory, 121 Hughson Street North, Hamilton
haptichorizonsartsymposium.ca

Opening Reception: February 27, 2026, 4:30 – 6:30pm
Centre[3], 173 James Street North, Hamilton

Haptic Horizons brings together artists, researchers, technologists, and disability community members to explore how touch, vibration, sound, and multisensory experience can reshape artistic practice and how we understand access, embodiment, and technology. This symposium centers disability-led knowledge and lived experience as critical drivers of innovation, creativity, and care. Over the course of the symposium, you will encounter talks, panels, installations, and hands-on experiences that engage haptic and sensory practices across art, design, and emerging technologies. Together, we ask how multisensory approaches can expand who art is for, how it is experienced, and how we gather in more inclusive and responsive ways. Haptic Horizon is grounded in principles of accessibility, consent, and community care. We invite participants to move at their own pace, engage in ways that feel meaningful to them, and contribute to a shared space rooted in respect and curiosity.

Sensorial Plurality
February 27 – April 25, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, February 27, 2026, 4:30 – 6:30pm
Centre[3], 173 James Street North, Hamilton

Sensorial Plurality brings together works by artists who completed residencies at Centre[3] and VibraFusion Lab (VFL) in 2024. This exhibition reflects a sustained period of experimentation, learning, and exchange focused on haptic and multisensory practices as vital modes of artistic inquiry and access.

Featured artists: Ebony Gooden, Willy Le Maitre, Connor Yuzwenko-Martin, Olivia Brouwer, Salima Punjani, and Kim Fullerton engage touch, vibration, sound, light, movement, and material responsiveness as central components of their work. Through diverse approaches and lived experiences, these artists challenge dominant visual-centric models of artmaking and exhibition, instead foregrounding embodied knowledge, sensory plurality, and disability-led innovation. Supported by the technical and conceptual frameworks of VFL, the works in this exhibition explore how haptic technologies and tactile strategies can expand both artistic expression and audience engagement. The projects invite viewers to consider how access is not an afterthought, but a generative force one that reshapes form, process, and relationship.

About Centre[3] and VibraFusionLab

Since 2004, Centre[3] has been dedicated to supporting artists with creation, production, presentation, and dissemination. Centre[3] conducts research, fosters innovation, and provides opportunities for critical discourse. Today the studio boasts world-class traditional printmaking facilities along with a state-of-the-art digital media studio. Beyond the walls of the studio, Centre[3]’s instructors are connecting the Hamilton-Wentworth communities through the arts through extensive education and outreach initiatives, and these programs continue to grow.

VibraFusionLab is a media arts centre based in Hamilton, Ontario that provides opportunities for the creation and presentation of multi-sensory artistic practice, partnering with other arts and technology-related organizations in order to achieve this. As an interactive creative media studio VibraFusionLab promotes and encourages the creation of new accessible art forms, including the vibrotactile, and focuses on inclusive technologies that have the potential of expanding art-making practices in the deaf, blind, disabled and hearing communities, and for creating more inclusive experiences for deaf, blind, disabled and hearing audiences.

Centre[3] acknowledges that our organization, located in Hamilton, is situated on the traditional territory of the Eerie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Mississauga and Haudenosuanee nations, whose presence here reaches back to time immemorial. We recognize the historical oppression of Indigenous peoples, cultures, and lands in what is now known as Canada. We are committed to healing and decolonizing together through the arts.

Centre[3] for Artistic and Social Practice
173 James Street North
Hamilton, ON L8R 2K9
Centre3.com
info@centre4arts.com
365-385-8053

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Accessibility:
As an event grounded in disability-led perspectives, we’ve ensured our venues are fully equipped with accessible entrances and restrooms, clear wayfinding signage, various seating styles and more. We encourage an atmosphere that’s respectful of masking, with staff and volunteers oriented to accessibility etiquette so that all attendees feel welcome. Additional support options are available for your convenience and comfort!

Image Descriptions:
1. A compilation image of six artworks, showing human faces interspersed with computer code, raised texture on a canvas, abstracted colour fields, and computer code.

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