We are continuing our mission to empower artists to renegotiate the shifting boundaries between the self, science, and technology.
*excluding Mercedes Part 1
Featured Works
Parables for the Biotech Age
A 70-minute multimedia storytelling adventure, blending art, music, animation and visuals. The biotech revolution will shape more than science—it will alter our emotional landscapes and the ways we connect with each other and the environment.
¡Harken! : A Lost Truth or a Return to a Myth?
A transfiguration of the flawed and fragmented pieces of history written about Juan Rodriguez – a mixed-race Atlantic Creole who arrived in 1613 from Santo Domingo as a fur trader for the Dutch. In Harken!, Rodriguez’s ghost, wanting desperately to be a real person, asks ChatGPT to tell him more about his life.
REST
‘Rest’ is based on research about how perception is created by small slivers of sensory input that is then ‘filled in’ with what we remember or what we expect, including interviews with scientists, poets, futurists, authors and thinkers and including George Saunders, Ross Gay, David Abram, Maryanne Wolf, Mary Helen Immordino Yang.
Mercedes Part 1
Embark on the story of Mercedes Viñales, the grandmother of artist Flako Jimenez, whose immigration journey to America and descent into dementia presents a powerful story of caregiving, love, loss, and resilience.
For Spring Programming, check out our MAXmachina page
Venue
ArtXNYC
REST – Annie Saunders Nov 8, 2024 7PM ET
Parables for the Biotech Age – Daniel Grushkin, Alex Darby Nov 9, 2024 7PM ET
¡Harken! – Flako Jimenez and Adaora Udoji Nov 10, 2024 3PM ET
BAM Fisher, Fishman Space
Mercedes – Flako Jimenez Dec 3-8, 2024 6-8 PM EST
About MAXlive
Media Art Xploration (MAXlive) is a NYC-based non-profit production company that was founded in 2018 by Founding Director Kay Matschullat to support the development, production, and presentation of compelling and artistically sophisticated new work that brings important questions surrounding scientific research and emerging technology to the public in an accessible format. As accelerating climate change, technologies such as artificial intelligence chatbots and AI surveillance, and new research into animal intelligence and perception call into question our role as humans, we believe that it is imperative that artists working in live performance and immersive installation are given adequate resources to explore these developments.
From a science communication standpoint, we believe that works experienced live have a unique ability to catalyze deep emotional transformation and intellectual consideration. MAXlive aims to bring both arts and science audiences together and strengthen the production capacity of the greater arts ecosystem by providing substantive production support to artists both familiar and new to engaging with science and emerging technologies. In addition to supporting new commissions through our MAXmachina laboratory, we also present MAXlive full productions with venue partners around the country featuring new works by choreographers, playwrights, composers, and technologists that grapple with the most pressing issues of our time. We also host a live conversation series, MAXforum, where artists and scientists share their processes with the public.
Media Art Xploration is supported in part by Simons Foundation International and administered by the Simons Foundation’s Science, Society & Culture division. Additional Funding provided by 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, and the generous support of our individual donors.