BIO
Mary Maggic (b. ’91, Los Angeles) is an artist and researcher whose practice revolves around workshopology as a shared process of amateurism and care that can collectively move us beyond pollution, planetary wounds, and grief.
These workshopologies center ecological crisis as the starting point for embodying our permeability and vulnerability, informed by what the land 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, and entering into new modalities of collective world-making.
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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 community art and environmental project FLORESTANIA, where recycled plastic is transformed into a plastic forest installation through public workshops and co-creation with the Precious Plastic movement.
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Maggic has exhibited internationally including House of Electronic Arts Basel (CH), Centre Pompidou-Metz (FR), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (DK), Centre de Cultura Contemporánia de Barcelona (ES), Migros Museum of Contemporary Art (CH), Jeu de Paume (FR), MU Hybrid Art House (NL) and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (DE).
Based in Vienna since 2017, they are a current member of the global network Hackteria: Open Source Biological Art and the Asian feminist collective Mai Ling Vienna.
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CONTACT
OOO.MAGGIC[A]GMAIL.COM
Mary Maggic (b. ’91, Los Angeles) is an artist and researcher whose practice revolves around workshopology as a shared process of amateurism and care that can collectively move us beyond pollution, planetary wounds, and grief.
These workshopologies center ecological crisis as the starting point for embodying our permeability and vulnerability, informed by what the land 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, and entering into new modalities of collective world-making.
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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 community art and environmental project FLORESTANIA, where recycled plastic is transformed into a plastic forest installation through public workshops and co-creation with the Precious Plastic movement.
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Maggic has exhibited internationally including House of Electronic Arts Basel (CH), Centre Pompidou-Metz (FR), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (DK), Centre de Cultura Contemporánia de Barcelona (ES), Migros Museum of Contemporary Art (CH), Jeu de Paume (FR), MU Hybrid Art House (NL) and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (DE).
Based in Vienna since 2017, they are a current member of the global network Hackteria: Open Source Biological Art and the Asian feminist collective Mai Ling Vienna.
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CONTACT
OOO.MAGGIC[A]GMAIL.COM
