A festival of music, dance and interactive performance that intersects with technology and science in exciting, exhilarating, and provocative ways. Through beauty, humor, violence and augmented virtual realities, these interactive works open up new portals of performance. Take your pick of a world premiere of new music, groundbreaking dance, a cabaret where you conduct a science experiment, or, all 8 shows with a MAX pass.
FEATURING WORKS BY
Flako Jimenez
Kameron Neal & Paul Pinto
Kate Ladenheim
Lisa Jamhoury
Luca Renzi & Mike Tyus
Matt Romein
Paula Matthusen & The Knights
Sister Sylvester
THE LINE UP
VENUES
National Sawdust
80 N 6th St, Brooklyn, NY 11249
Programs at National Sawdust
Commit! Kate Ladenheim
Good Genes Sister Sylvester
making the whole world a sky The Knights and Paula Matthusen
My Body is an Instrument Mike Tyus and Luca Renzi
ONX Studio
645 5th Ave, Lower Level, NY 10022
Programs at ONX Studio
Bag of Worms Matt Romein
Maquette Lisa Jamhoury
Mercedes VR Flako Jimenez
Whiteness (Excerpts) Kameron Neal and Paul Pinto
COLLABORATORS
Our Scientific Partners and Providers of Technology Support
ABOUT MAX
Media Art Xploration (MAX) 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. MAX 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, we also produce a biennial live performance festival, MAXlive, featuring new works by choreographers, playwrights, composers, and technologists that grapple with the most pressing issues of our time; host a live conversation series MAXforum where artists and scientists share their processes with the public; and run a open call performance laboratory where works are incubated and developed.
The MAXlive festival is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
The MAXlive Festival and the MAXmachina laboratory program are supported in part by the Simons Foundation.
The MAXlive Festival and the MAXmachina laboratory program are supported in part by the Ettinger foundation.