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A.I. has woven itself into what feels like our molecular structure already. We prompt AI for all kinds of answers, for solutions to problems, mental and physical, for comforts we can’t get from friends or family. Are you beginning to feel it is your equal? Do you wonder who is prompting whom? These questions and many more will be addressed at Media Art Xploration’s MAXForum salon (conversation series) with creative technologists: Grayson Earle, PROMPT and their machine. The duo will be premiering a new work with Media Art Xploration (MAXlive) that will feature an A.I. film director, conducting a filming with audience participation of Jur A** Itch Park - a new take on a family favorite infused with the singular humor of AI. There also will be a chance to learn more about their technology and process.
Join us at the Center for Performance for some fun at the expense of the machine - who is kidding whom?
This conversation is a part of the MAXforum's Salon Series and will be moderated by Kay Matschullat, Artistic Director of MAXlive. There will also be a small reception following the talk.
To join the performance "Grayson Earle with PROMPT: Jur A** Itch Park" preceding the conversation, please get your tickets here.
Media Art Xploration (MAXlive) produces, develops, and deploys groundbreaking live-art experiences at the intersection of artistic expression, scientific inquiry, and technology. MAXlive believes that the intersection of art, science, and technology is a powerful and borderless catalyst for change. Our work is driven by a commitment to spark curiosity, provoke thought, and create transformative experiences that shape our future. We seek to expand the boundaries of what art can achieve and how it can inspire meaningful action in the world.
Artist Profiles
Grayson Earle is a new media artist and educator. He has worked as a professor at Oberlin College, the New School, and the City University of New York. He is the co-creator of Bail Bloc and a member of The Illuminator art collective. His work uses the context of art to materialize ideas and forms surrounding the role that digital technologies and networks can play in protest and political agency. He exhibits inside and outside of traditional art spaces, working with guerrilla video projection, cryptocurrency, machine learning, simulation, sculpture, and the internet. Earle has held fellowships at Akademie Schloss Solitude, ZK/U, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, and Pioneer Works. He has presented his work and research at The Whitney Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, Radical Networks, the Magnum Foundation, and Open Engagement. Recent exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum (USA), Centro de Cultura Digital (Mexico), Kate Vass Galerie (Switzerland), and The Red House (Taiwan).
PROMPT is a Berlin-based artist collective whose practice engages critically with the narratives that coalesce around contemporary technologies. Oscillating between the euphoric imaginaries of fully automated luxury communism and the bleak specters of techno-feudalism or a runaway singularity, PROMPT probes the ideological fault lines embedded in our collective visions of the future. Their work destabilizes the dominant techno-utopian tropes by treating technology not as an inevitable force, but as a malleable and appropriable terrain—one that can be reimagined to contest and reconfigure existing power structures.
Positioning themselves at the intersection of artistic inquiry and socio-political engagement, PROMPT has collaborated with a range of grassroots movements and activist networks. Their transdisciplinary approach frames artistic production as a potential site of resistance, where speculative aesthetics become tools for both critique and collective world-building.
Kay Matschullat is an award-winning director, producer, and educator dedicated to deconstructing barriers and exploring inventive collaborations. She has directed world premieres of plays by Nobel Prize winner, Derek Walcott, and Pulitzer Prize winner, Ariel Dorfman, and had artistic residencies at Calarts, Dartmouth, Duke, and SCAD. She launched the IntheRaw program at Red Bull Theater and the New Play Program at Williamstown Theater Festival. After successfully launching the first online collaborative tool for script development, Matschullat founded Media Art Xploration (MAXlive) dedicated to increasing artistic exploration with and about the light speed advances in science and technology.Since founding MAXlive, she has produced the multi-venue biennial festivals MAXlive 2019: A Space Festival, the inaugural MAXlive festival in San Francisco creating collaborations between scientists and performers, MAXlive 2021, The Neuroverse pushing the limits of intelligence and investigating applications of AI in performance, and MAXlive 2023 Where is My Body - dance music and immersive performance exploring the changing nature of embodiment.Partners include Carnegie Hall, The Exploratorium, MASS MoCA, National Sawdust, New York Live Arts, Onassis ONX Studio, The Boston Museum of Science,California Academy of Science and Highland Center for the Arts.She served as a full-time faculty member at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts for two decades, and was a guest lecturer at Princeton University and Harvard College where she received the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Interdisciplinary Work. She enjoys creating space for artists, scientists and creative technologists to change the world. She can be reached at kay@mediaartexploration.org.
A.I. has woven itself into what feels like our molecular structure already. We prompt AI for all kinds of answers, for solutions to problems, mental and physical, for comforts we can’t get from friends or family. Are you beginning to feel it is your equal? Do you wonder who is prompting whom? These questions and many more will be addressed at Media Art Xploration’s MAXForum salon (conversation series) with creative technologists: Grayson Earle, PROMPT and their machine. The duo will be premiering a new work with Media Art Xploration (MAXlive) that will feature an A.I. film director, conducting a filming with audience participation of Jur A** Itch Park - a new take on a family favorite infused with the singular humor of AI. There also will be a chance to learn more about their technology and process.
Join us at the Center for Performance for some fun at the expense of the machine - who is kidding whom?
This conversation is a part of the MAXforum's Salon Series and will be moderated by Kay Matschullat, Artistic Director of MAXlive. There will also be a small reception following the talk.
To join the performance "Grayson Earle with PROMPT: Jur A** Itch Park" preceding the conversation, please get your tickets here.
Media Art Xploration (MAXlive) produces, develops, and deploys groundbreaking live-art experiences at the intersection of artistic expression, scientific inquiry, and technology. MAXlive believes that the intersection of art, science, and technology is a powerful and borderless catalyst for change. Our work is driven by a commitment to spark curiosity, provoke thought, and create transformative experiences that shape our future. We seek to expand the boundaries of what art can achieve and how it can inspire meaningful action in the world.
Artist Profiles
Grayson Earle is a new media artist and educator. He has worked as a professor at Oberlin College, the New School, and the City University of New York. He is the co-creator of Bail Bloc and a member of The Illuminator art collective. His work uses the context of art to materialize ideas and forms surrounding the role that digital technologies and networks can play in protest and political agency. He exhibits inside and outside of traditional art spaces, working with guerrilla video projection, cryptocurrency, machine learning, simulation, sculpture, and the internet. Earle has held fellowships at Akademie Schloss Solitude, ZK/U, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, and Pioneer Works. He has presented his work and research at The Whitney Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, Radical Networks, the Magnum Foundation, and Open Engagement. Recent exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum (USA), Centro de Cultura Digital (Mexico), Kate Vass Galerie (Switzerland), and The Red House (Taiwan).
PROMPT is a Berlin-based artist collective whose practice engages critically with the narratives that coalesce around contemporary technologies. Oscillating between the euphoric imaginaries of fully automated luxury communism and the bleak specters of techno-feudalism or a runaway singularity, PROMPT probes the ideological fault lines embedded in our collective visions of the future. Their work destabilizes the dominant techno-utopian tropes by treating technology not as an inevitable force, but as a malleable and appropriable terrain—one that can be reimagined to contest and reconfigure existing power structures.
Positioning themselves at the intersection of artistic inquiry and socio-political engagement, PROMPT has collaborated with a range of grassroots movements and activist networks. Their transdisciplinary approach frames artistic production as a potential site of resistance, where speculative aesthetics become tools for both critique and collective world-building.
Kay Matschullat is an award-winning director, producer, and educator dedicated to deconstructing barriers and exploring inventive collaborations. She has directed world premieres of plays by Nobel Prize winner, Derek Walcott, and Pulitzer Prize winner, Ariel Dorfman, and had artistic residencies at Calarts, Dartmouth, Duke, and SCAD. She launched the IntheRaw program at Red Bull Theater and the New Play Program at Williamstown Theater Festival. After successfully launching the first online collaborative tool for script development, Matschullat founded Media Art Xploration (MAXlive) dedicated to increasing artistic exploration with and about the light speed advances in science and technology.Since founding MAXlive, she has produced the multi-venue biennial festivals MAXlive 2019: A Space Festival, the inaugural MAXlive festival in San Francisco creating collaborations between scientists and performers, MAXlive 2021, The Neuroverse pushing the limits of intelligence and investigating applications of AI in performance, and MAXlive 2023 Where is My Body - dance music and immersive performance exploring the changing nature of embodiment.Partners include Carnegie Hall, The Exploratorium, MASS MoCA, National Sawdust, New York Live Arts, Onassis ONX Studio, The Boston Museum of Science,California Academy of Science and Highland Center for the Arts.She served as a full-time faculty member at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts for two decades, and was a guest lecturer at Princeton University and Harvard College where she received the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Interdisciplinary Work. She enjoys creating space for artists, scientists and creative technologists to change the world. She can be reached at kay@mediaartexploration.org.
A.I. has woven itself into what feels like our molecular structure already. We prompt AI for all kinds of answers, for solutions to problems, mental and physical, for comforts we can’t get from friends or family. Are you beginning to feel it is your equal? Do you wonder who is prompting whom? These questions and many more will be addressed at Media Art Xploration’s MAXForum salon (conversation series) with creative technologists: Grayson Earle, PROMPT and their machine. The duo will be premiering a new work with Media Art Xploration (MAXlive) that will feature an A.I. film director, conducting a filming with audience participation of Jur A** Itch Park - a new take on a family favorite infused with the singular humor of AI. There also will be a chance to learn more about their technology and process.
Join us at the Center for Performance for some fun at the expense of the machine - who is kidding whom?
This conversation is a part of the MAXforum's Salon Series and will be moderated by Kay Matschullat, Artistic Director of MAXlive. There will also be a small reception following the talk.
To join the performance "Grayson Earle with PROMPT: Jur A** Itch Park" preceding the conversation, please get your tickets here.
Media Art Xploration (MAXlive) produces, develops, and deploys groundbreaking live-art experiences at the intersection of artistic expression, scientific inquiry, and technology. MAXlive believes that the intersection of art, science, and technology is a powerful and borderless catalyst for change. Our work is driven by a commitment to spark curiosity, provoke thought, and create transformative experiences that shape our future. We seek to expand the boundaries of what art can achieve and how it can inspire meaningful action in the world.
Artist Profiles
Grayson Earle is a new media artist and educator. He has worked as a professor at Oberlin College, the New School, and the City University of New York. He is the co-creator of Bail Bloc and a member of The Illuminator art collective. His work uses the context of art to materialize ideas and forms surrounding the role that digital technologies and networks can play in protest and political agency. He exhibits inside and outside of traditional art spaces, working with guerrilla video projection, cryptocurrency, machine learning, simulation, sculpture, and the internet. Earle has held fellowships at Akademie Schloss Solitude, ZK/U, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, and Pioneer Works. He has presented his work and research at The Whitney Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, Radical Networks, the Magnum Foundation, and Open Engagement. Recent exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum (USA), Centro de Cultura Digital (Mexico), Kate Vass Galerie (Switzerland), and The Red House (Taiwan).
PROMPT is a Berlin-based artist collective whose practice engages critically with the narratives that coalesce around contemporary technologies. Oscillating between the euphoric imaginaries of fully automated luxury communism and the bleak specters of techno-feudalism or a runaway singularity, PROMPT probes the ideological fault lines embedded in our collective visions of the future. Their work destabilizes the dominant techno-utopian tropes by treating technology not as an inevitable force, but as a malleable and appropriable terrain—one that can be reimagined to contest and reconfigure existing power structures.
Positioning themselves at the intersection of artistic inquiry and socio-political engagement, PROMPT has collaborated with a range of grassroots movements and activist networks. Their transdisciplinary approach frames artistic production as a potential site of resistance, where speculative aesthetics become tools for both critique and collective world-building.
Kay Matschullat is an award-winning director, producer, and educator dedicated to deconstructing barriers and exploring inventive collaborations. She has directed world premieres of plays by Nobel Prize winner, Derek Walcott, and Pulitzer Prize winner, Ariel Dorfman, and had artistic residencies at Calarts, Dartmouth, Duke, and SCAD. She launched the IntheRaw program at Red Bull Theater and the New Play Program at Williamstown Theater Festival. After successfully launching the first online collaborative tool for script development, Matschullat founded Media Art Xploration (MAXlive) dedicated to increasing artistic exploration with and about the light speed advances in science and technology.Since founding MAXlive, she has produced the multi-venue biennial festivals MAXlive 2019: A Space Festival, the inaugural MAXlive festival in San Francisco creating collaborations between scientists and performers, MAXlive 2021, The Neuroverse pushing the limits of intelligence and investigating applications of AI in performance, and MAXlive 2023 Where is My Body - dance music and immersive performance exploring the changing nature of embodiment.Partners include Carnegie Hall, The Exploratorium, MASS MoCA, National Sawdust, New York Live Arts, Onassis ONX Studio, The Boston Museum of Science,California Academy of Science and Highland Center for the Arts.She served as a full-time faculty member at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts for two decades, and was a guest lecturer at Princeton University and Harvard College where she received the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Interdisciplinary Work. She enjoys creating space for artists, scientists and creative technologists to change the world. She can be reached at kay@mediaartexploration.org.
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