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Media Art Xploration produces live & immersive arts that harness & interrogate the scientific advances of our times.

Absurd Intelligence

Watch as 2020 MAXMACHINA artist Grayson Earle, explores the mysteries of some everyday code challenges in his new two-part series Abusurd Intelligence. 

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MAXvirtual

MAXvirtual is a platform for live art pieces created and curated specifically to be shared online.

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MAXmachina 2021 Applications

MAXmachina, a program designed to support artists and develop their work for presentation at a MAXLIVE festival is now accepting applications. 

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Programs

  • MAX 2021: THE NEUROVERSE
    Join us for an international convening of artists, scientists, influencers...
             
  • Heisenberg
    With 100 others share an augmented reality tour of the...
    May 16 & May 18      2019   Exploratorium
  • Kronos Eclipse
    San Francisco’s Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet has a gravitational force, unlike...
    May 17       2019   Exploratorium
  • We Chose to Go to the Moon: Apollo 11's 50th Anniversary
    The Challenge to Reach the Moon. We Chose to Go to...
    July 16 & July 20      2019   Carnegie Hall
  • The Outer Space
    A jazz cabaret asking if love will be easier on...
    May 17 & May 18      2019   Z Space
  • Alice Sheppard seated in her wheelchair with two crutches, crosses her body and arches her spine to look behind. The photo is a mirror reflection and Alice looks back at herself as her crutches disappear into each other in a seamless touchpoint. Photo by Lisa Niedermeyer. Caption Text: Alice Sheppard from solo work Where Good Souls Fear. Photo by Lisa Niedermeyer.
    Pas De Deux: Robots as Our Partners
    A Pas De Deux like you have never seen before...
    May 16 & May 18      2019   Exploratorium

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