Maya Livio writes, makes media, curates, and teaches about the contact zones between ecosystems and technological systems.
Her interdisciplinary research and practice have been featured in publications and outlets such as Washington Post, NPR, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla), VICE, and Vanity Fair, and have been supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, The Huntington, Caltech, Redline Contemporary Art Center, Labocine, and Fermynwoods Contemporary Art (UK), among others. Livio 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.
In 2025–2026, Livio is curator of Data Rich, Dirt Poor at BMoCA. She was the 2024 Researcher-in-Residence at the MAK Center for Art & Architecture & the SOM Foundation. In 2023, she was awarded a Research and Innovation Award for undertaking a project at Airlie, the site at which Earth Day was founded.
Livio holds a PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder, MA from the University of Amsterdam, and is Assistant Professor at American University. She divides her time between the California coastal sage & chaparral and Chesapeake rolling coastal plain ecoregions (Los Angeles & DC).
Her interdisciplinary research and practice have been featured in publications and outlets such as Washington Post, NPR, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla), VICE, and Vanity Fair, and have been supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, The Huntington, Caltech, Redline Contemporary Art Center, Labocine, and Fermynwoods Contemporary Art (UK), among others. Livio 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.
In 2025–2026, Livio is curator of Data Rich, Dirt Poor at BMoCA. She was the 2024 Researcher-in-Residence at the MAK Center for Art & Architecture & the SOM Foundation. In 2023, she was awarded a Research and Innovation Award for undertaking a project at Airlie, the site at which Earth Day was founded.
Livio holds a PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder, MA from the University of Amsterdam, and is Assistant Professor at American University. She divides her time between the California coastal sage & chaparral and Chesapeake rolling coastal plain ecoregions (Los Angeles & DC).