Maya Livio’s research centers on the unresolved points of failure between on and offline systems. She is particularly interested in data and platform politics, networked intimacy, mediated vulnerability, and feminist critiques of technology. Her modes of inquiry into these subjects include both digital methods as well as practice-based research approaches.
Maya is a Curator of MediaLive, an annual media arts festival hosted by the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, a research affiliate at the Digital Methods Initiative in Amsterdam, and a Curator of the Media Archaeology Lab. She holds a master’s degree in New Media & Digital Culture from the University of Amsterdam and a bachelor’s degree in Art from the University of Maryland.
JP Merz is a composer and sound artist who works with classical, jazz, and rock musicians, as well as improvisers, dancers, electrical engineers, programming languages, and robots. His recent work explores intimate, emotion-driven, and kinesthetic experiences of sound. JP’s music has been performed by members of the JACK Quartet, Altius Quartet, Playground Ensemble, Iowa Center for New Music, and Colorado New Music Ensemble at places like New Music on the Point (NMOP), the Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions (ACRE), San Francisco Fringe Festival, Electronic Music Midwest, basements, coffee shops and laptop speakers.
In addition to composing, JP performs on guitar, electric viola, and electronics with an eclectic variety of groups ranging from new music/improv ensembles to folk-rock bands. He just moved from Boulder, CO to Minneapolis, MN.
