NEWS

INVITED TALK
Visual Culture Symposium, Caltech
(April 2024)

PEER-REVIEWED PAPER
“Queer Ecological Data: Where Artificial Intelligence Meets the Avian.”
New Media & Society, with Natalia Sanchez-Querubin
(February 2025)

CO-EDITOR, CALL FOR PAPERS/PRACTICE
“Murmurations in Avian Technoscience.” with Pamela Perrimon (USC) & Hamsini Sridharan (USC)
Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience (2025)

MONTH-LONG SCREENING
Mountain Panorama, Labocine
(November 2024)

RESEARCHER-IN-RESIDENCE
MAK Center for Art & Architecture + The SOM Foundation
(2024)

CURATOR & MODERATOR
“Experiments in Los Angeles Cohabitation”, MAK Center for Art + Architecture
(July 20, 2024)

INVITED PRIVATE SEMINAR PARTICIPANT
Climate Sound & Society: Exploring Intersections of Technology, Research and Practice
Harvard Radcliffe Institute & Harvard metaLAB, Cambridge, MA
(February 29-March 1, 2024)

INVITED SCREENING
Go Short International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen N
(2024)

CONFERNECE PAPER
“Queer Data Surrogacy: Avian AI as Queer Ecological Practice”, Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS)
Conference, Boston, MA
(March 14–17, 2024)

FELLOWSHIP + VISITING FACULTY
Caltech-Huntington Art + Research Residency, Pasadena, CA
(2023)

GRANTEE
Airlie Research & Innovation Award, American University, Washington, DC
(2023)

CONFERENCE PAPER
“Avian Accuracy Not Precision: Queering Bird Data”, Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference, Honolulu, HI / online
(November 2023)

INVITED TALK
“Practices at the Eco-Technical Interface” University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
(October 2023)

COMISSIONED ESSAY
“The Generative and the Generational.” In catalogue, Michelle Ellsworth: Evidence of Labor. The Experimental Media and Performing Center (EMPAC), Troy, NY.
(October 2023)

BOOK CHAPTER
“Salvaging Birds: Expanded Nonfiction about Brow Birds, Queer Ecologies, and Data.” In Deep Horizons: A Multisensory Archive of Ecological Affects and Prospects. eds. Erin Espelie and Brianne Cohen, Amherst College Press.
(September 2023)

GRANTEE
School of Communication Faculty Award, American University, Washington, DC
(2023)

FELLOWSHIP
Greenberg Faculty Fellow, American University, Washington, DC
(2023-2025)

GROUP EXHIBITION + PANEL DISCUSSION
a time to tear and a time to mend, Wönzimer, Los Angeles, CA
(October—November 2022)

GROUP EXHIBITION
FEELERS: Towards Reciprocal Sensing, Tetrapod Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Part of Fulcrum Festival 2022
(September–October 2022)

CO-ORGANIZER: CONFERENCE
DIY Methods Conference, Low-Carbon Methods Research Group
(September 2022)

RESIDENCY
A-Z West, Joshua Tree, CA
(June 2022)

PEER-REVIEWED PAPER
“The Eco-Technical Interface: Attuning to the Instrumental”
CHI ‘22, with Laura Devendorf
(May 2022)

SELECTED PARTICIPANT
Material Ethics of Computing Workshop
CHI ‘22, New Orleans, LA/Online
(May 2022)

GRANTEE
Creator Development Fund
For “Salvaging Birds”, with JP Merz, New Music USA
(May 2022)

SELECTED AMBASSADOR
SciArt Ambassador Program 2022-2023
SUPERCOLLIDER, Los Angeles, CA
(March 2022)

INTERVIEW
“Feminist Data Practices: Conversations with Catherine D’Ignazio, Lauren Klein, and Maya Livio”
Facilitated by Sabine Niederer and Gabriele Colombo, Diseña, (19)
(September 2021)

SELECTED PARTICIPANT
Colby Summer Institute in Environmental Humanities, Waterville, MA
(August 2021)

CONFERENCE ROUNDTABLE
“Social Justice, Activism, and Environmental Media Studies”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Online
(March 2021)

CONFERENCE PAPER
“Earthly Digital Art: Thinking Environmentally in Media-Based Practice”
College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, Online
(February 2021)

SCREENING
Nature Club, Femmebit, Los Angeles/Online
(May 2020)

INVITED PARTICIPANT
Humane Infrastructures
UCLA
(March 2020)

EXHIBITION & COLLECTION
Winter of the Climate-Haunted Globe Issue
Labocine, Imagine Science Films
(January 2020)

GRANTEE
INSITE Fund
RedLine Contemporary Art Center and Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts
Thermopower project
(2019–2020)

GRANTEE
Research & Innovation Seed Grant
Handbook for Feminist Labs project, Co-PI
(2019–2020)

PUBLICATION
"Towards Feminist Labs: Provocations for Collective Knowledge-Making"
Maya Livio and Lori Emerson
Critical Makers Reader, Institute of Network Cultures (November 2019)

CONFERENCE PAPER
"On Pikas and Purity"
SLSA Conference, Irvine, CA
(November 7-10, 2019)

CONFERENCE PAPER
"Lagomorph Lessons"
Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference, New Orleans, LA
(September 4-7, 2019)

GROUP EXHIBITION
Making & Doing
4S, New Orleans, LA (September 4-7, 2019)

INVITED PARTICIPANT
"Version Control: Roundtable on Female-Identifying Artists in New Media"
TRANSFER Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
(July 30, 2019)

WORKSHOP
"Exploring Noticing as Method", co-organized
DIS 2019 Conference, San Diego, CA
(June 23-28, 2019)

CURATED EXHIBITION
Subterranean
MediaLive at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
(April 25-May 27, 2019)

CONFERENCE PAPER
"Feminist Labs: A Case Study"
HASTAC Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada
(May 16-18, 2019)

INVITED TALK
"Media Art as Critical Intervention"
Front Range Community College, Fort Collins, CO
(April 24, 2019)

CO-ORGANIZER: SYMPOSIUM
What is a Feminist Lab?
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
(April 17-18, 2019)

ORGANIZER: SYMPOSIUM
Anthropocene Resonance: Interdisciplinary Approaches
CU Art Museum
(February 8, 2019)

CONFERENCE PAPER
"A Rough Sketch on Thermoregulation, Technology, and the American Pika"
Multispecies Storytelling Conference
Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden
(January 23–25, 2019)

MAYA LIVIO