Maya Livio writes, makes media, and curates about the contact zones between ecosystems and technological systems. Her interdisciplinary, justice-oriented research and practice have been featured in The Washington Post, VICE, Vanity Fair, The Institute of Networked Cultures, and NPR, among others, and supported by venues such as the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art (UK), A-Z West, Redline Contemporary Art Center, and Labocine by Imagine Science Films. She has commissioned and programmed new media as Curator of MediaLive, an annual international festival at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA) and old media as Curator of the Media Archaeology Lab, a collecting institution for historical technologies.
Livio is the 2024 Researcher-in-Residence at the MAK Center for Art & Architecture in Los Angeles. In 2023, she was awarded the Caltech-Huntington Art + Research Residency for her multimodal project Salvaging Birds, as well as an American University Research and Innovation Award for undertaking a project at Airlie, the site at which Earth Day was founded. She holds a PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder, MA from the University of Amsterdam, and is Assistant Professor of Climate, Environmental Justice, Media and Communication at American University.
Livio divides her time between two ecoregions—the California coastal sage & chaparral and the Chesapeake rolling coastal plain (Los Angeles & DC).
Livio is the 2024 Researcher-in-Residence at the MAK Center for Art & Architecture in Los Angeles. In 2023, she was awarded the Caltech-Huntington Art + Research Residency for her multimodal project Salvaging Birds, as well as an American University Research and Innovation Award for undertaking a project at Airlie, the site at which Earth Day was founded. She holds a PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder, MA from the University of Amsterdam, and is Assistant Professor of Climate, Environmental Justice, Media and Communication at American University.
Livio divides her time between two ecoregions—the California coastal sage & chaparral and the Chesapeake rolling coastal plain (Los Angeles & DC).