Media Art Xploration (MAX) invites storytellers, performers, and creative technologists to submit applications to the 2023 MAXmachina lab program.
Donor Name: Media Art Xploration (MAX)
State: New York
City: New York City
Type of Grant: Program
Deadline: 01/15/2023
Size of the Grant: up to $7500
Grant Duration: 7 month
Details:
MAX is looking for projects that expand live performance by using science and technology to explore the promise and the peril of the rapidly changing world.
In addition to pairing projects with advisors and collaborators when needed, MAX provides residents with development strategies and active production support. MAXmachina projects are chosen for their artistic potential, ability to instill wonder, qualities of aural and visual fascination, diversity of perspective, and emotional and philosophic potency.
Works developed in MAXmachina will be presented at their next MAXlive festival.
Artists and creative teams are invited to submit project proposals for live and interactive works-in-progress that reach completion with 7 months of project development. They aim to be expansive in how we define what a generative artist can be, and we encourage artists and technologists alike to propose work that challenges dominant modes of categorization, crosses disciplines, and enlivens our connection to live storytelling. Applicants may propose work in dance, music, theater, experimental performance, and media arts that include a live aspect.
What they Provide
- Artist funding up to $7500
- 7 month project development period, with 1 workshop and 1 final festival presentation
MAX’s additional support includes creative development, admin expertise, and production support of workshop and presentation. Selected artists are expected to be in dialogue with MAX and their network of scientific advisors and engineers who are curated to support the development of individual works.
Guiding Questions
These are some of the questions that interest them and inform their programming:
- How can live arts expand awareness and a sense of agency around an increasingly digitized experience to a more diverse audience?
- How can use live arts to expand presence in the virtual?
- How are able to expand our senses to become more connected and more responsible inhabitants of the planet?
- What is humanness amidst a growing awareness of other species and other intelligences?
Eligibility Criteria
- They are seeking proposals for in-progress works that have not been presented in New York City.
- This call is open to emerging and mid-career makers, including those who do not traditionally work in live arts.
- Past applicants can reapply with new/revised material.
They welcome applications that unsettle the historical norms of science, tech, and performance with new perspectives, new voices, and new dialogues.
Applications will be assessed according to the following criteria:
- Clarity of concept
- Alignment with MAX goals
- Creative potential
- Feasibility of execution and presentation
- Availability of artist/artist team for mandatory quarterly cohort convenings, workshop periods, and the public winter 2023/2024 presentation.
For more information, visit MAXmachina Lab Program.
