2024
FEBRUARY 5 – DECEMBER 20, 2026
CALDERA
2025 EDAA Virtual Exhibition
Caldera features the five winning artworks of the 2025 EDAA as part of the MacKenzie Art Gallery’s experimental virtual exhibition series. This year’s cohort of 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.
2025 Jury
LILLIAN O’BRIEN DAVIS
MAXWELL LANDER
REA MCNAMARA
BOMI YOOK
2025 Partners
Past Awards
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
About the EDAA
The Emerging Digital Artists Award (EDAA) is Canada’s first digital art award designed to foster experimentation in the work of emerging artists and create opportunities for those working in digital media. Resisting the notion that screen time lacks space for critical engagement, the EDAA champions a new generation of digital creators who challenge us to see the world through a different screen.