Welcome to the portfolio of Yaron Maim.

Where art, science, and creative tech meet to experiment with abstraction.

Visual, Performance, New Media Art

Art x Science Residency & Collaboration

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MPI MIS), Leipzig.
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Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS AI), Computer Science, Universität Leipzig.
2024
Company Christoph Winkler, Berlin.
Art Doc Archive, Technische Universität (TU), Berlin.
2023

Exhibition, Screening & Live Performance

Berlin New Media Week, Mahalla.
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Bridges Organization, Art and Math, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Seek Find, Soho House Berlin.
2025
Video Club, Same Heads, Berlin.
Living Gallery, New York.
2023
Air Berlin Alexanderplatz in partnership with the Swiss Embassy.
2022

Teaching

Tiny Storms, Video is The New Sketch, School of Machine.
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Iromatik. Illustration from Another Dimension is a visual language developed through practice-based research on abstraction, examining how form and perception interact to produce sensory experience beyond representation.

Tiny Storms teaches video as a critical and creative tool for sketching ideas, telling stories, and experimenting with multiple media: analog, 3D, AI, and more. It’s a thinking device! For artists, designers, storytellers, scientists, and curious beginners who want to learn moving image techniques for prototyping and idea-making.

Suuperpose (Babin x Maim) is a Berlin-based duo experimenting live with analogue glitch and AI image-making. They ask what happens when technology is misused in real time. Their immersive audio-visual world is a flow of fragments where tools and voices confront each other.

Folding Landscape is a research-based 3D animation where mathematics becomes cinematic. What if a simple fold could reshape a world? Inspired by polyomino folding, it follows topological transformation, closing holes and changing connectivity, through a poetic world of cubes, mountains, and valleys.

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Storyboard developed to meet the scientific and creative needs of an interdisciplinary collaboration. It explores new ways of communicating math through storytelling.

3D animation based on climate data (glacier mass balance from the World Glacier Monitoring Service) for the dance and digital theater production Songs & Dances About the Weather, 2023.

Du siehst mich is a short AI video on technology's misuse, and the tension between human perception, machine vision, and simulated intimacy. Made with generative and procedural techniques.

Huuumans is an installation combining experimental animation and works on paper, created with 3D, AI, watercolor, and a drawing machine. The work explores the parallels between abstraction and transition while speculating on machinic subjectivity: what gestures might make humans believe that the machine has become a self.

A collection of animations on embodied verbs, unfolding through the accumulation of small experiments. The work shown here was created with TouchDesigner, Houdini, and MidJourney. Each piece investigates a core action (fly, observe, prompt, bind, bathe, etc.) through process-driven methods.

Sissy Symmetry (2019) a looping-based durational live drawing and noise performance. Improvising to expand the two-dimensional space of drawing through time, sound, and space. Performed outdoors at dusk, as shifting natural light underscored the passage of time.

Jade Ministre des Territoires Invisibles (2014) is a 120-page experimental graphic novel. Published anonymously in 49 hand-made copies, it was presented in Paris and Geneva in contexts treating self-publishing as an artistic practice. It follows Jade, a young adult named after a social integration measure, navigating precarity and inverting enunciative positions.

Artist Statement

I work with visual abstraction to feel the world and render complex ideas: from encoded drawing and live AI glitch to trans experience, video sketching, science storytelling, and the myth of creativity. Think of a Swiss control freak crossed with an alien who crash-landed on bureaucracy.

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Abstraction is where I test relations between bodies and infrastructures, staying with what can’t be classified or seen. Moving between flat and 3D, static and motion, I use recursion to play with ideas that feel too big to stay fixed. I take what a process produces and feed it back into itself. It’s a way to push a system to see where it meets its edge. Or whether it even has one.

  • Under AI’s rule of prediction, coherence, and efficiency, abstraction turns toward what can’t be modeled. The uncertain, the ambiguous, the unoptimized.
  • The visual abstracts through material, the computational through code, the embodied through transition. Each exposes how systems misread reality and invent new ones.

My research asks:

How does abstraction behave when its logics (visual, computational, embodied) contradict each other?

The photo shows my pen plotter with googly eyes tracing a shape generated through playful transformations: a simple coded vector graphic, extruded into 3D, sliced into iso-contours, flattened back into 2D vector, and plotted on paper.

About

Yaron Maim (Swiss–French, based in Berlin and Genève) is an artist–researcher investigating abstraction across visual, performance, and new media art. Their practice unfolds where material, code, and body meet. Collaborations span from the Max Planck Institute to the School of Machines. Maïm holds dual Master’s degrees in Solo/Dance/Authorship (HZT Berlin) and Critical Curatorial Cybermedia (HEAD Genève).

Photo credits: Miriam Woodburn, Nuno Roque, ElsaTriquet Rey.

Contact

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Yaron Maïm Studio 2025
Visual, Performance, New Media Art
✦ Where art, science, and creative tech meet to experiment with abstraction.