MAXmachina Halloweekend Laboratory
Celebrate Halloweekend with Media Art Xploration for three new projects fresh from our laboratory at MITU580 on November 1st.
Media Art Xploration (MAX) reigns in Halloweekend with new performances from premiere artists. To a new haunting dance performance to a stand-up show rooted in propangda, each artist works with technology and science to create an immersive experience, breaking the boundaries between the virtual and physical worlds.
Double Billing (2 Performances), $30 - Have A Great Night! + Vibrating Waiting For You To Touch
All Seats, $15 - Syntax of Undoing
Day Pass Available at $40
Questions?
Email: info@mediaartexploration.org
DM: @mediaartx on Instagram
For those in need and/or affected by the ongoing government shutdown, we are able to provide accesible ticketing options. Don't hesistate to reach out!
Have a Great Night!
~ Stand-Up Comedy with a Taste of Propaganda ~
This piece takes the form of stand-up night with a host who will engage with the audience between each performance. The comedians, invested in becoming better artists and citizens, will collaboratively tell the story of how they trained with a propaganda expert to become funnier, more persuasive, and more fluent in their politics. They are here to demonstrate their newfound skills. This does not always go well. Or at least, does not go as expected. And isn’t very funny—but it is at times very funny. The show will begin like a stand-up night at a middle-of-the-road American comedy club and end like a harrowing documentary.
Vibrating Waiting for You to Touch
~ The Digital Body Meets the Physical through Puppetry, Sound, and Thumbs ~
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?
Syntax of Undoing:
Spirits Haunt the Virtual
~ Loose Dance Adaptation of the The Tempest that Enters New Virtual Worlds~
Syntax of Undoing treats Shakespeare’s The Tempest as a conceptual field for open interpretation. It moves through orders of multiplicity and metamorphosis, using the play as a catalyst to examine relations of force, perception, and transformation in the live moment.
Team Rolfes inhabit the fluid territory between Ariel and Caliban and all that breathes between them. Matthew Jamal channels the emotional arc associated with Miranda and Ferdinand as states of encounter, awakening, desire, and consequence. Raymond Pinto appears as Prospero and as the central force through which the event takes shape, guiding its unfolding through presence and intention rather than command.
MAXlive and the MAXmachina laboratory program are supported in part by the Simons Foundation, the Ettinger foundation, public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, with additional support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation/EST, and the generous support of our individual donors.
Media Art Xploration (MAX) produces, develops, and deploys groundbreaking live-art experiences at the intersection of artistic expression, scientific inquiry, and technology. We foster collaboration between artists, scientists, and creative technologists to amplify critical dialogues, expand access to new ideas, and explore the impacts of innovation and scientific discovery on our shared human experience.
At MAX, we believe that the intersection of art, science, and technology is a powerful and borderless catalyst for change. Our work is driven by a commitment to spark curiosity, provoke thought, and create transformative experiences that shape our future. We seek to expand the boundaries of what art can achieve and how it can inspire meaningful action in the world.
¡Oye! Group is a Bushwick-based creative incubator for artists, students, and community members of all ages, both local and immigrant to New York City. Our work is grounded in the act of listening that gave us our company name: we curate art that sparks a dialogue over the political and social issues that our community tells us are critical to them. We present an eclectic mix of theater, dance, poetry, music, video installations, and film through festivals and productions. We work with emerging artists to create, play, and grow in an environment that challenges and supports them, and we engage youth and adults alike through high-quality arts education that provides them with the tools to generate forward-thinking art that compliments the work on our stages.
MITU580 is a multi-use art space in Brooklyn, NY founded and operated by interdisciplinary performance company, Mitu. The company has retrofitted this former glass recycling facility into 2,400 square feet of flexible space intended to intersect the fields of performance, installation art, new-media, and design. MITU580 is at once a studio space and performance venue to house all of Mitu’s programming, as well as a state-of-the-art production facility capable of hosting all types of innovative performances and events. This facility is a unique gathering place where interdisciplinary arts practice is interrogated, incubated, and produced.
Celebrate Halloweekend with Media Art Xploration for three new projects fresh from our laboratory at MITU580 on November 1st.
Media Art Xploration (MAX) reigns in Halloweekend with new performances from premiere artists. To a new haunting dance performance to a stand-up show rooted in propangda, each artist works with technology and science to create an immersive experience, breaking the boundaries between the virtual and physical worlds.
Double Billing (2 Performances), $30 - Have A Great Night! + Vibrating Waiting For You To Touch
All Seats, $15 - Syntax of Undoing
Day Pass Available at $40
Questions?
Email: info@mediaartexploration.org
DM: @mediaartx on Instagram
For those in need and/or affected by the ongoing government shutdown, we are able to provide accesible ticketing options. Don't hesistate to reach out!
Have a Great Night!
~ Stand-Up Comedy with a Taste of Propaganda ~
This piece takes the form of stand-up night with a host who will engage with the audience between each performance. The comedians, invested in becoming better artists and citizens, will collaboratively tell the story of how they trained with a propaganda expert to become funnier, more persuasive, and more fluent in their politics. They are here to demonstrate their newfound skills. This does not always go well. Or at least, does not go as expected. And isn’t very funny—but it is at times very funny. The show will begin like a stand-up night at a middle-of-the-road American comedy club and end like a harrowing documentary.
Vibrating Waiting for You to Touch
~ The Digital Body Meets the Physical through Puppetry, Sound, and Thumbs ~
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?
Syntax of Undoing:
Spirits Haunt the Virtual
~ Loose Dance Adaptation of the The Tempest that Enters New Virtual Worlds~
Syntax of Undoing treats Shakespeare’s The Tempest as a conceptual field for open interpretation. It moves through orders of multiplicity and metamorphosis, using the play as a catalyst to examine relations of force, perception, and transformation in the live moment.
Team Rolfes inhabit the fluid territory between Ariel and Caliban and all that breathes between them. Matthew Jamal channels the emotional arc associated with Miranda and Ferdinand as states of encounter, awakening, desire, and consequence. Raymond Pinto appears as Prospero and as the central force through which the event takes shape, guiding its unfolding through presence and intention rather than command.
MAXlive and the MAXmachina laboratory program are supported in part by the Simons Foundation, the Ettinger foundation, public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, with additional support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation/EST, and the generous support of our individual donors.
Media Art Xploration (MAX) produces, develops, and deploys groundbreaking live-art experiences at the intersection of artistic expression, scientific inquiry, and technology. We foster collaboration between artists, scientists, and creative technologists to amplify critical dialogues, expand access to new ideas, and explore the impacts of innovation and scientific discovery on our shared human experience.
At MAX, we believe that the intersection of art, science, and technology is a powerful and borderless catalyst for change. Our work is driven by a commitment to spark curiosity, provoke thought, and create transformative experiences that shape our future. We seek to expand the boundaries of what art can achieve and how it can inspire meaningful action in the world.
¡Oye! Group is a Bushwick-based creative incubator for artists, students, and community members of all ages, both local and immigrant to New York City. Our work is grounded in the act of listening that gave us our company name: we curate art that sparks a dialogue over the political and social issues that our community tells us are critical to them. We present an eclectic mix of theater, dance, poetry, music, video installations, and film through festivals and productions. We work with emerging artists to create, play, and grow in an environment that challenges and supports them, and we engage youth and adults alike through high-quality arts education that provides them with the tools to generate forward-thinking art that compliments the work on our stages.
MITU580 is a multi-use art space in Brooklyn, NY founded and operated by interdisciplinary performance company, Mitu. The company has retrofitted this former glass recycling facility into 2,400 square feet of flexible space intended to intersect the fields of performance, installation art, new-media, and design. MITU580 is at once a studio space and performance venue to house all of Mitu’s programming, as well as a state-of-the-art production facility capable of hosting all types of innovative performances and events. This facility is a unique gathering place where interdisciplinary arts practice is interrogated, incubated, and produced.