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Photo of Vibrating Waiting for You To Touch performed at MITU580 (Hayley Pfitzer, 2025).

Promoted through an 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 2026 Programs

Don’t miss MAXmachina 2026: Make the Invisible Visible at BRIC Arts, Brooklyn, NY, on Nov 20-21

Dancing with Black Holes

Peter Chu & Matthew Jamal with Production Design By Kay Matschullat

Our MAXmachina Cohort: Group VII

Meet our MAXmachina Class for Season 2026-27

“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

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
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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).

2025 Machina Cohort: Group VI

Celebrating Our Previous Wonderful Cohort 

Peter Mills Weiss & Julia Mounsey

Doppelgänger

Photo of Doppelganger (Maria Baranova, 2021).

All MAXmachina Cohorts

All MAXmachina Cohorts

Daniel Grushkin

Alexander Reben

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