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
Current MAXmachina Cohort: Group VI
“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
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Vibrating Waiting For You To Touch
A mixed-reality performance that explores the sensorial and emotional experience of scrolling. It is a dance of scrolling thumbs—thumbs attached to hands performed by whole people. Through movement, sound, and absurdist costuming, props, and embodied exploration, the piece investigates how our bodies are disciplined by digital systems and how the intimate act of touch becomes flattened into functionality. This work asks: how do we touch a digital body? And can touch rehumanize the dehumanized scroll?
Vibrating Waiting For You To Touch
Julianna Johnston
Theater MITU
Nov 1, 2025
A mixed-reality performance that explores the sensorial and emotional experience of scrolling. It is a dance of scrolling thumbs—thumbs attached to hands performed by whole people. Through movement, sound, and absurdist costuming, props, and embodied exploration, the piece investigates how our bodies are disciplined by digital systems and how the intimate act of touch becomes flattened into functionality. This work asks: how do we touch a digital body? And can touch rehumanize the dehumanized scroll?
Photography by Hayley Pfitzer (2025).
2024 Machina Cohort: Group V
Celebrating Our Previous Wonderful Cohort
Photo of Doppelganger (Maria Baranova, 2021).
