2021: The Neuroverse

NYC-Based In-Person Festival Features an Array of Thrilling Live Performances, Immersive Installations, and Timely Conversations Around Urgent Questions and World-Expanding Innovations in Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and the Human-Machine Collaboration

Special Thanks to:

Our Performances

MAXlive 2021: The Neuroverse was made possible by the support of Science Sandbox, an initiative of the Simons Foundation, MAX’s generous donors, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

The Wandering Mind

Gershon Dublon, Xin Liu (Slow Immediate)

How AI Lost Its Body

Philip Schmitt

Siren: Listening to Another Species on Earth

Annie Lewandowski, Kyle McDonald, Amy Rubin

Doppelgänger

Nuum Collective

Lizardly

Kat Mustatea, Heidi Boisvert

Inference Engine

Grayson Earle

On Wings of Song: Listening to Another Species on Earth

The Knights

We Are Your Robots

Ethan Lipton and his Orchestra

Secret Garden

Stephanie Dinkins

Featured Artists and Scientists

Alexander Reben

Alice Sheppard

Philipp Schmitt

Kyle McDonald

Nuum Collective

Gershon Dublon

Xin Liu

The Knights

Daniel Fish

Tom Griffiths

Dr. Carl Schoonover

Stephanie Dinkins

Heidi Boisvert

Kat Mustatea

Our MAXforum Programming

MAXforum, a conversation series produced by Media Art Xploration (MAX) in partnership with NEW INC and ONX Studio, brings together artists, artist-engineers, scientists, and technologists to discuss how their work intersects the most pressing issues of our time

The Limitation that Sets Us Free

The Interspecies Quest

The Imagination and the Scientist

Bodies of Intelligence

Costs of Extraction

Road to Recovery

Have the Robot Armies Arrived?

These projects are developed in consultation with the following scientists and institutions: Dr. Nicole Clayton, Cambridge University, Dr. Tom Griffiths, Princeton Cognitive Science Institute, Dr. David Haskell, Sewanee: The University of the South, Dr. Carl Schoonover, Columbia University, Dr. Bill Thompson, University of California at Berkeley, and ONX Studio for Extended Reality with Sensorium.