The ninth annual Media Archeology Festival is presented by Aurora Picture Show in collaboration with the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and Nameless Sound. This year's multi-media festival showcases artists whose work is a hybridization of moving images and acoustics to explore the relationships and open the definitions of film, music, art and performance.

An audiovisual performance where the music literally "comes from the heart," Heart Chamber Orchestra is the creation of electronic artist duo TerminalBeach. An immersive visual environment and musical score is generated in real time by the heartbeats of the musicians who are wearing electrocardiogram sensors. Heart Chamber Orchestra will be performed by 12 members of the Houston-based Two Star Symphony. TerminalBeach is a collaboration between Pure (Vienna/Berlin) and Berger (Helsinki) which began in 2002.