Performing Media Festival

10/02/2026

📣 CALL FOR WORKS: Performing Media Festival 2027
📅 Save the Date: March 19–20, 2027 | Throughout South Bend, IN

PMF is now accepting submissions for our upcoming festival! We invite artists, composers, and multimedia creators working across new media, electroacoustic music, video art, and interactive performance to submit their work.

🗓 Submission Deadline: November 1, 2026

📍 Venues: IU South Bend Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, South Bend Museum of Art, St. Joe County Public Library, and more!

👇 Links to full guidelines in the comments below!

📷 Pictured: GRIDS by Jason Thorpe Buchanan and Chris Chandler performed by the [Switch~ Ensemble] ([PMF~ 2027] Special Guest Artist)



Presenting Partners and Co-Hosts: Arts at ND, David Bird, University of Notre Dame Department of Music

09/15/2026

Today is September 15th, which means our Call for Works for is live! https://www.performingmediafestival.com/call-for-works

It's a long one, so TL;DR;
[PMF~ 2027] will be March 19th-20th in South Bend, Indiana.
If you create performative audio-visual works, this fest is for you
The application, registration, and festival events are free!
We just need you (the performing media community), so send us your latest!

More info about this year's specific offerings:
1) We are thrilled to be a part of this year's Arts at ND Biennial!
2) This year's Special Guest Artists will be the [Switch~ Ensemble]!
3) Switch will be performing live multimedia ensemble works by Chris Chandler/Jason Thorpe Buchanan, Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, and Igor Santos!
4) PMF is again partnering with DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, St. Joe County Public Library, South Bend Museum of Art, and IU South Bend Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts to bring performing media works to venues throughout the city.
More on: https://www.performingmediafestival.com/

Now, we need you all to either send us your works for consideration or encourage those you know who have been creating works for media to join us this spring as South Bend once again turns into a hub of new media performance!

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