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Photo of Team Rolfes & Raymond Pinto for Collaboration As Resistance: Syntax of Undoing (Haley Pfitzer, 2025).

This lively series of conversations and demonstrations among artists, engineers, scientists, critics, thought leaders, and creative technologists is an opportunity for our community to engage in public debate as we think aloud together about the promise and peril of our rapidly changing world. These gatherings amplify the dialogue surrounding our artists’ output, offering deeper reflection, discussion, and engagement with ideas and community that extend far beyond the performance space.

Collaboration as Resistance

Co-Produced with ¡Oye! Group

MAX has joined forces with ¡Oye! Group to present pertinent conversations both tied to the pieces of our 2025-26 Season and the world around us. Each Salon will feature conversations from artists, scientists, and creative technologists, while being moderated by renowned contemporaries.

¡Harken!

Modesto “Flako” Jimenez
Harken

Collaboration as Resistance:
¡Harken!

Jan 16 – 17, 2026

Co-Produced with ¡Oye! Group

MAX has joined forces with ¡Oye! Group to present pertinent conversations both tied to the pieces of our 2025-26 Season and the world around us. Each Salon will feature conversations from artists, scientists, and creative technologists, while being moderated by renowned contemporaries.

Collaboration As Resistance:
The Syntax of Undoing

Salon Style Conversation featuring the artists behind Syntax of Undoing: Raymond Pinto, Matthew Jamal, & Team Rolfes 

Past MAXforum Conversations

Past MAXforum Conversations

Scientists Panel

Collaboration as Resistance: The Science of Sound

Luke, Kay, Nick

Collaboration as Resistance: The Art of Sound

Raymond Pinto in Syntax of Undoing

Collaboration As Resistance: Syntax of Undoing

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The MAXforum conversation series are supported in part by the Simons Foundation, the Ettinger foundation, public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, with additional support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation/EST, and the generous support of our individual donors.