Building soft systems to notice how things relate.
Works and research by Yaron Maim, Swiss–French media artist and creative technologist based in Berlin.
Beyond Painting
self-initiated
Iromatik is a diagrammatic painting project that uses plotters, 3D processes, generative AI, drawing, and sculpture to think through relations in a slow, material way.
Knowledge Visualisation
for Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
Folding Landscape is a research-based 3D animation developed in dialogue with scientists that engages with the topology of polyominoids, transformation, and connectivity.
3D Motion
for Company Christoph Winkler
Songs About the Weather is a 3D motion project based on glacier data for a dance and digital theatre production.
Human-Centered Generative AI
self-initiated
Tiny Storms teaches generative AI video sketching, contra-prompting, and creative failure as method.
Live Visual
self-initiated duo
Suuperpose (Babin x Maim) is a duo experimenting live with analogue glitch and generative tools, asking what happens when technology is misused in real time.
Experimental Animation
self-initiated
Small Experiments is a series of short animations created using analog and generative approaches (Houdini, TouchDesigner, Runway).
Durational Performance
self-initiated
Sissy Symmetry (2019) is a looping, durational live drawing and noise performance at dusk, where shifting natural light marked the passage of time.
Graphic Novel
self-initiated
Jade Ministre des Territoires Invisibles (2014) is a 120-page experimental graphic novel, published anonymously in 49 hand-made copies, following a character navigating precarity and inverted enunciative positions.
Artist Statement
I’m interested in what happens when things don’t align. Abstraction is, for me, a mode of attention. It helps me stay with complexity without trying to fill the gaps. I’m drawn to situations where systems fail to recognize one another. Bodies, tools, environments. My work asks what gets left out when we make the world fit into models.What if systems hold through care rather than stability?I build soft systems to notice how things relate and to question what fitting is meant to achieve. I push processes to their edge and feed the results back into the process.Collaborating with scientists and choreographers, I work with complex ideas through making and experimentation. I start from simple rules around motion, materiality, and expanded notions of drawing. From there, I develop intuitive compositions until they settle, then deliberately destabilize them through iteration to see what shifts. I treat computational techniques as sketching operations within a larger field of relations. I work with what cannot be fully captured and stay close to what is embodied and material.
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 is a Swiss–French Berlin-based media artist who works with visual abstraction to sense the world through systems rather than images, moving between computational and embodied modes. Collaborating with science and technology, Maim creates experiential works that open time to notice relations. They hold Master’s degrees in Solo/Dance/Authorship (HZT Berlin) and Critical Curatorial Cybermedia (HEAD Geneva), a diploma in VFX & 3D animation, and have worked with the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and the University of Television and Film Munich.
Photo credits: Miriam Woodburn, Nuno Roque, Elsa Triquet Rey.
Exhibition, Screening, and Live Visual
Art x Science Collaboration and Teaching
Contact
Yaron Maim Studio 2026
