Maya Livio writes, makes media, curates, and teaches about the contact zones between ecosystems and technological systems.
Her interdisciplinary work has been published and featured in New Media & Society, e-flux Journal, the Washington Post, NPR, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla), Vanity Fair, and books from Amherst College Press and Punctum Press, among others. Her work has been supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, Redline Contemporary Art Center, Labocine, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art (UK), and more. 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 and in 2023, she was Art + Research Resident at Caltech and the Huntington Library. 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 work has been published and featured in New Media & Society, e-flux Journal, the Washington Post, NPR, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla), Vanity Fair, and books from Amherst College Press and Punctum Press, among others. Her work has been supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, Redline Contemporary Art Center, Labocine, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art (UK), and more. 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 and in 2023, she was Art + Research Resident at Caltech and the Huntington Library. 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).