Building soft systems to notice how things relate.
Works and research by Yaron Maim, Swiss–French media artist based in Berlin.
Drawing
Iromatik is a visual grammar project rooted in drawing, presented as a collection of art prints, objects, and installation.
Science Communication
Folding Landscape is a 3D animation developed in dialogue with mathematical research, including work by Rothstein and others, engaging with topology, transformation, and connectivity.
Generative AI Teaching
Tiny Storms teaches AI Video Sketching as a critical and creative method: Contra-Prompting, Storyfielding, and Hallucinating.
Live Visual Duo
Suuperpose (Babin x Maim) is a duo experimenting live with analogue glitch and AI workflows, asking what happens when technology is misused in real time.
3D Motion & Visualisation
3D motion research based on climate and glacier data, developed for a dance and digital theatre production with Company Christoph Winkler.
Video Installation
Huuumans is an installation combining experimental video and works on paper, using 3D, AI, watercolor, and a pen plotter to speculate on machinic subjectivity.
Short animations on embodied verbs, created through generative experiments.
Du siehst mich is a short AI video addressing the tension between human perception, machine vision, and simulated intimacy.
Durational Performance
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
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, for me, is a mode of attention. It helps me stay with complexity without rushing to fill the gaps. It’s a way of engaging with relations between bodies, tools, and environments, especially when they fail to recognize one another.My practice begins with simple rules focused on motion and materiality. I sketch intuitive, diagrammatic drawings and work with live animation. I accumulate small experiments that run, loop, and fail, curious about moments when something almost functions, but not quite.Moving between different ways of knowing across science and technology changes how I see and learn. I translate that shift into artistic forms that can be experienced.
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, ElsaTriquet Rey.
Art x Science Collaboration & Teaching
Exhibition, Screening, Live Visual
Contact
Yaron Maim Studio 2026
