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Maya Livio Assistant Professor Film and Media Arts

Contact
Maya Livio
SOC | Film & Media Arts
McKinley Building 240
Degrees
PhD, University of Colorado Boulder
MA, University of Amsterdam
BA, University of Maryland

Bio
Dr. Maya Livio's work probes at the contact zones between ecosystems and digital systems.

Livio's work has been supported supported by major funding organizations such as the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts and featured in venues such as as The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, and NPR. Her work has also been exhibited internationally and published in volumes by Amherst College Press, punctum books, and the Institute of Network Cultures, among others.

Currently, Livio is working on "Salvaging Birds," a multimodal project that examines the rising use of AI for conservation. For this work, she was awarded a 2023 Residency at Caltech and the Huntington Library. She was also awarded American University's 2023 Research and Innovation Award at Airlie for related research.
For the Media
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Teaching

Fall 2024

  • COMM-105 Visual Literacy

  • COMM-201 Survey of International Cinema

Spring 2025

  • COMM-416 Topics in Film and Media Arts: Environmental Media