MAXmachina is a lab where storytellers, artists, scientists, and creative technologists expand live performance, creating work that uses science and technology to explore the promise and peril of our rapidly changing world. Projects include music, dance, experimental and immersive performance.

  
Media Art Xploration is inviting proposals for our 2025/26 MAXmachina laboratory program for works in dance, theater, music, experimental performance, as well as immersive pieces incorporating live activation. Past works have included interactive installations, mixed reality performance, art works implementing scientific research, and more analogue pieces interrogating the promise and peril of our increasingly technologized world. 

  

  
* Four laboratory productions; as part of the development process each work will receive a salon presentation which includes a preview of the work, as well as three-way conversations between artist, scientist, and audience, designed to maximize meaningful feedback and reflection.
* Each project will receive a stipend of up to $5,000; additionally, each work will receive production support suited to the size and scale of the piece. Support is tailored to each project’s unique needs and may include access to rehearsal and performance space, equipment, software, technical staff, and fees for additional creative collaborators (compensated at a standardized industry rate starting at $30/hr).

  

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