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MAXForum Conversation Series
Memory in Time and Space
Modesto Flako Jimenez, Dr. Nicola Clayton, and Adaora Udoji

MAXForum, a conversation series produced by Media Art Xploration (MAX) in partnership with NEW INC and ONX Studio, brings together artists, artist-engineers, scientists, and technologists to discuss how their work intersects the most pressing issues of our time. Audiences learn about the research and artistic process, debates within the field, and get a behind-the-scenes look at how artists and scientists generate work and use creative and collaborative thinking to solve problems.

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Producer and AR expert Adaora Udoji moderateσ a conversation between cognitive
psychologist Dr. Nicola Clayton and artist Modesto Flako Jimenez on what we can learn from
studying the structures of cognition in animals. How might this research help us understand the
nature of memory in humans, and what are the implications for developing creative and
community-centered approaches to addressing diseases such as Alzheimer's?

SPEAKER BIOS

Modesto Flako Jimenez
Modesto Flako Jimenez is a Dominican-born, Bushwick-raised, multi-hyphenate artist. As a
poet, playwright, educator, actor, producer, and director his work exists in and explores the
intersections of identity, language, mediums, cultures, and communities found in his personal
life and beyond.
Jimenez’s art addresses the social and political changes affecting the Latin American
communities in his Bushwick neighborhood. His 2021 play, Taxilandia, draws on his nine years
of experience driving a taxicab in New York City and his documentation of conversations with
passengers, residents, locals, and immigrants. He has worked with companies all over the
country, including La Jolla Playhouse, Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater, and he founded
and is the Artistic Director of Oye Group. Jimenez also works as a Community Programmer at
The Bushwick Starr and a professor at Sarah Lawrence College and leads poetry and theater
workshops for teens through Oye Group.

Dr. Nicola Clayton
Nicola Clayton is Professor of Comparative Cognition in the Department of Psychology at the
University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Clare College and a Fellow of the Royal Society. Her
expertise lies in the contemporary study of comparative cognition, integrating a knowledge of
both biology and psychology to introduce new ways of thinking about the evolution and
development of intelligence in non-verbal animals and pre-verbal children. She is currently
President of the British Science Association Psychology Section.
Nicky is also the first Scientist in Residence at Rambert (formerly Rambert Dance Company), a
position she has held for 11 years. She collaborates with Mark Baldwin, the former Artistic
Director, on new choreographic works inspired by science including the Laurence Oliver award
winning The Comedy of Change (2009, 2013), Seven For A Secret Never To Be Told (2011),
What Wild Ecstasy (2012), The Strange Charm of Mother Nature (2014), and The Creation
(2016), and Grave (2018). In addition, she has written the words and collaborated on Perpetual
Movement (2016, 2017), an exhibition of paintings inspired by Rambert at the Lowry and
Embodied Cognition, a series of art works drawn and painted by Mark Baldwin (2019).

Adaora Udoji
Adaora Udoji is an award-winning storyteller, producer, and media executive with expertise in
emerging technology and media. Currently, she is Vice President of Programming and
Operations at PBS. She oversees work across scripted and non-scripted programming and
distribution platforms. Genres include news, current affairs, indie film, docs, series, web series,
and podcasts.
Adaora works across platforms: digital, video, film, radio, podcasts, virtual reality, and
augmented reality with content premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival,
Google and has been featured on CNN, ABC News, and public radio. (IMDb profile)
Previously, she was an executive at RLab and ran a media-tech startup, News Deeply. She
covered some of the most compelling stories of our time as a broadcast journalist,
correspondent and anchor, winning many awards, including recognition by The National
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award
for reporting on the Afghan war and Hurricane Katrina respectively.
She serves on the board of NEW INC of the New Museum and is currently a trustee at The
Hewitt School, serves as an advisor for the Sundance Interdisciplinary Program and the
Broadway Accelerato. She is an adjunct professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications
Program at the Tisch School of the Arts