MARY MAGGIC


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(b. Los Angeles) is an artist, researcher and pedagogue whose practice revolves around workshopology, a shared process of knowledge production and care that can move us beyond pollution, planetary wounds, grief, and collective uncertainty. These workshopologies center ecological crisis as the starting point for embodying our permeability and vulnerability, informed by what the more-than-human already knows and feels. With this participatory practice, Maggic constantly searches for new embodied strategies for dissolving the boundaries between the personal and the planetary, entering into new, de-colonial modalities of shared world-making.

After completing their Masters at MIT Media Lab, Design Fiction, their project Open Source Estrogen was awarded Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2017 in Hybrid Arts. In 2019, they completed a 10-month Fulbright residency in Yogyakarta, Indonesia exploring the relationship between Javanese animism and the plastic pollution crisis. Later, Maggic received the 2022 Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship, and in 2024 completed the Labverde Speculative Ecologies program in the Amazon rainforest of Manaus, Brazil. In 2025, they launched the art-for-ecology platform ATELIER FLORESTANIA, where upcycled plastic is transformed into life-size tree sculptures through public workshops, sold to raise funds for our real forests. Practicing workshopology since 2015, Maggic professored the Summer 2026 course Workshopology & Earthly Engagements at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Site-Specific Art. They are currently an artist-in-residence and project leader at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Network Medicine for the P.A.I.N. (Personal And Interconnected with Nature) project for Ars Electronica 2026. 

Maggic has exhibited internationally including Centre de Cultura Contemporánia de Barcelona (ES), Migros Museum of Contemporary Art (CH), Secession (AT), House of Electronic Arts Basel (CH), Centre Pompidou-Metz (FR), Montpellier Contemporary (FR), Museion Bolzano (IT), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (DK), Jogja National Museum (ID), Jeu de Paume (FR), MU Hybrid Art House (NL) and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (DE). Based in Vienna since becoming a mother in 2018, they are a current member of the global network Hackteria: Open Source Biological Art and the Asian feminist collective Mai Ling.




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