August 17 – September 4, 2026
Emma Eichenberg
Opening Reception: Tuesday, August 18th from 6–9PM
Factory Media Centre (366 Victoria Ave. N)
Factory Media Centre is thrilled to present Wet Maps, a culminating exhibition from one of our 2026 &NOW Artist-in-Residence, Emma Eichenberg.
Wet Maps reimagines the continuous movement of water through Hamilton’s Beasley neighbourhood sewer systems. The work builds on research into underground infrastructure and urban geographies, exploring how these systems mirror larger geological rhythms. Through conducting fieldwork in Hamilton’s Beasley and North End neighbourhoods, the work seeks to examine the duality between subterranean and atmospheric layers, the fast-moving asthenosphere below and the calm stratosphere above, and how these strata echo the hidden flows beneath Hamilton’s infrastructure.
About the Artist
Emma Eichenberg is an artist residing in the occupied territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and Mississaugas, known as Hamilton ON, primarily working in printmaking, painting, and exploring new media practices. Her practice conceptually engages with the deterioration and changes in her vision due to an eye condition. Eichenbergs’ shifting perceptions of colours inform material exploration through creating her own oil paints as a method of regaining visual control. Alongside painting, Emma’s print work contrasts her conceptual focuses and exists as an outlet for exploratory silliness and cynicism, and archiving textural experiences. Additionally, Eichenberg’s printing practice uses text to engage with queer zines and publication practices.
About the &NOW Production Residency & Scholarship
Factory Media Centre annually hosts our &NOW Production Residency & Scholarship (PR&S) program each winter. This is a valuable opportunity for artists and creators to utilize the space and resources at FMC to produce a new work, or continue a developing body of work. Selections are based on project originality, its potential for artistic growth, and the use and integration of FMC as a production location. Click here to learn more about our &NOW Residency Program.
About Factory Media Centre
Factory Media Centre is Hamilton’s not-for-profit artist-driven resource centre for film, video, new media, installation, sound art, and other multimedia art forms. Our mission is to develop and support a vibrant, sustainable, creative, and diverse community of Members and non-Members within Hamilton and its surrounding region.