Maya Livio writes, makes media, curates, organizes, and teaches about the contact zones between ecosystems and technological systems.
Her interdisciplinary research and practice have been featured in The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, VICE, and NPR, among others, and have been supported by venues such as the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art (UK), Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, A-Z West, Redline Contemporary Art Center, and Labocine by Imagine Science Films. 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.
Livio was the 2024 Researcher-in-Residence at the MAK Center for Art & Architecture & the SOM Foundation. In 2023, she was awarded the Caltech-Huntington Art + Research Residency as well as a 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 at American University, where she teaches environmental media.
Livio 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 The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, VICE, and NPR, among others, and have been supported by venues such as the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art (UK), Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, A-Z West, Redline Contemporary Art Center, and Labocine by Imagine Science Films. 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.
Livio was the 2024 Researcher-in-Residence at the MAK Center for Art & Architecture & the SOM Foundation. In 2023, she was awarded the Caltech-Huntington Art + Research Residency as well as a 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 at American University, where she teaches environmental media.
Livio divides her time between the California coastal sage & chaparral and Chesapeake rolling coastal plain ecoregions (Los Angeles & DC).