MAXmachina - Good Genes

Photo of Good Genes (Drinking Brecht) performed at National Sawdust (Alycia Kravitz, 2023).

Promoted through a free, open-call, this Fellowship is a creative laboratory where artists receive all necessary resources to execute their creative vision and bring their work to life. Incubating new and existing projects, in addition to direct funding through artist fees, Fellows are offered access to physical production spaces and the technical infrastructure needed to realize ambitious projects. This laboratory fosters an environment where artists, scientists, and technologists can experiment, refine their ideas, and push creative boundaries through creative workshops, peer critiques, and preview showcases. By offering dramaturgical guidance, production expertise, and access to collaborative networks, we help shape ambitious, interdisciplinary works from concept to realization.

MAXmachina Fall 2025 Programs

Check Out Our Most Recent Programming from Nov 1 at MITU580

Have A Great Night!

Peter Mills Weiss & Julia Mounsey

Vibrating Waiting For You To Touch

Julianna Johnston

Syntax of Undoing

Raymond Pinto, Team Rolfes, & Matthew Jamal

Current MAXmachina Cohort: Group VI

Peter Mills Weiss & Julia Mounsey

Peter Mills Weiss & Julia Mounsey

“It was because of MAXmachina that all this [Princeton Fellowship, BAM premiere] happened. You believed in us early and supported us on this journey when we didn’t know anything yet about the science or technology.”

Modesto "Flako" Jimenez

Obie-Winning Artistic Director of ¡Oye! Group
Guggenheim Fellow for Creative Arts

Interesting in Applying to MAXmachina?

Applications for Our Open Call go live on an annual basis in the Spring. We encourage those who would like to apply to attend MAX Shows and get to know the work and artists. Sign Up for Mailing List, Follow Us On Socials, and we look forward to meeting you! 

Drinking Brecht

Drinking Brecht by Sister Sylvester is a genetically modified cocktail party. With live music and using DNA from a hat worn – and never washed – by the actors in Bertolt Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble, Sister Sylvester presents a bio-art cabaret where the work takes place in the audience’s small intestine. A thorough celebration of thieves, biohackers, and cannibals, Good Genes sheds worn out scientific narrative and turns them into a science for the people.

Doppelgänger

Photo of Doppelganger (Maria Baranova, 2021).

2024 Machina Cohort: Group V

Celebrating Our Previous Wonderful Cohort 

Annie Saunders

All MAXmachina Cohorts

Daniel Grushkin

Daniel Grushkin

Johannes Büttner

Johannes Büttner

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