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In 2019, MAX's first year of programming, we worked with over 100 artists and scientists to bring 25 performances, 10 presentations, and 5 museum installations to over 10,000 audience members across 3 cities in partnership with 7 premiere venues including The Exploratorium, Carnegie Hall, and the Norton Museum.

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MAX 2021: The Neuroverse
 MAX Festival
Join us for an international convening of artists, scientists, influencers and machines. MAX 2021: The Neuroverse, our next live arts festival will engage questions about neuroscience, AI, and the expanding relationship ...
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2019: A Space Festival
 MAX Festival
May 16-18, 2019. Live and immersive arts at The Exploratorium, California Academy of Sciences, and Z Space. A range of performances and installations exploring our new space age, the extraordinary scientific ...
May 16 - May 18 , 2019
San Francisco, California
We Chose to Go to the Moon
 MAX Live Arts
Join us at Carnegie Hall to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s launch and lunar landing.  John Monsky creates an entirely new kind of storytelling with musical classics from ...
July 16 & July 20 , 2019
New York, New York
Venice Biennale
MAX • September 27, 2019

This edition of Venice Biennale is called May You Live in Interesting Times. And indeed, we do. From the climate crisis to the rise of artificial intelligence systems, how we define ourselves and how we relate to the external world is shifting. Ho...

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Where live arts and science converge
July 16 & July 20, 2019
New York, New York
 

Thank you to all the artists and scientists at MAX 2019: A Space Festival.

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 Space Festival
Heisenberg
With 100 others share an augmented reality tour of the early universe an...
May 16 & May 18 , 2019
Exploratorium - San Francisco
 Space Festival
Kronos Eclipse
San Francisco’s Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet has a gravitational force,...
May 17 , 2019
Exploratorium - San Francisco
 Space Festival
The Outer Space
A jazz cabaret asking if love will be easier on another planet. Lipton a...
May 17 & May 18 , 2019
Z Space - San Francisco
 Space Festival
Living/Distance
Xin Liu's sculpted avatar comes to life in space and dances through the ...
May 16 & May 18 , 2019
Exploratorium - San Francisco
 Space Festival
The Overview Effect by Lynn Rosen
Dueling launches by competing space companies, each on a quest for Mars,...
May 16 , 2019
San Francisco Playhouse - San Francisco
 Space Festival
Spacewoman of the Underground
Christine Zuercher attempts to dig a hole to the other side of the plane...
May 16 & May 18 , 2019
Exploratorium - San Francisco
 Space Festival
Star Stories
Lakota youth from South Dakota’s Rosebud Sioux Reservation collaborate w...
May 17 & May 18 , 2019
California Academy of Sciences - San Francisco
 Space Festival
Speech Cancelling Headphones
An artifact from the near-future where technology literally manipulates ...
May 17 & May 18 , 2019
Z Space -
 Space Festival
Extraterrestrial – A Drag Invasion
Alert, alert! San Francisco is being invaded May 17 at 10PM by otherworl...
May 17 , 2019
Z Space - San Francisco
 Space Festival
Brecht Forensics: DNA Cocktails
Brecht Forensics: DNA Cocktails is a lecture that demonstrates DNA extra...
May 18 , 2019
Z Space - San Francisco
 Space Festival
Pas De Deux: Robots as Our Partners
A Pas De Deux like you have never seen before where a dancer-choreograph...
May 16 & May 18 , 2019
Exploratorium - San Francisco
 Space Festival
Outta this World Poetry Slam
MAX has partnered with the renowned Youth Speaks to bring together hundr...
May 17 , 2019
California Academy of Sciences - San Francisco
 Space Festival
Universal Threads
Take fashion into the 4th dimension! Watch these celestial looks come t...
May 17 & May 18 , 2019
Z Space - San Francisco
 Space Festival
Intergalactic Travel Bureau
Plan your vacation to Mars! or why not a SuperNova? The Intergalactic T...
May 16 & May 18 , 2019
Exploratorium - San Francisco
 Event Series
Star Stories, The Podcast
In this collaboration with Notes for Notes, young sound engineer-artists...
May 17 , 2019
California Academy of Sciences - San Francisco
 Space Festival
Space Travel Sci-Fi Style
Space Travel, Sci-Fi Style A playful talk where we’ll watch clips fro...
May 16 & May 18 , 2019
Exploratorium - San Francisco
 Space Festival
Mapping Microbes: The Search for E.T
How are microbes, organisms that live on and in us, the key to finding e...
May 17 , 2019
California Academy of Sciences - San Francisco
 Event Series
Mission Art
Pre-festival event (February 22 & 23, Houston, TX) How many people ...
February 22 , 2019
Z Space - Houston
 Space Festival
MAXchats – Speakers and Panels: CRISPR, Jumpsuits, Machine Human Interfaces.
In an afternoon MAXchats brings together leading artists and scientists ...
May 18 , 2019
Z Space - San Francisco
 
We Chose to Go to the Moon: Apollo 11’s 50th Anniversary
The Challenge to Reach the Moon. We Chose to Go to the Moon: Apollo 11'...
July 16 & July 20 , 2019
Carnegie Hall - New York
 Space Festival
The Final Frontier
Festival Closing Night: The Final Frontier and The After Party of the Un...
May 18 , 2019
Z Space - San Francisco

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