On April 24th, 2025, Mercer Labs, the visionary museum of art and technology located in Lower Manhattan, opens its most ambitious show to date: Maestros and the Machines. The exhibition takes over the 36,000-square-foot space of Mercer Labs New York, inviting visitors to explore a bold reinterpretation of artistic genius through cutting-edge innovation.
Conceived and directed by artist Roy Nachum, Maestros and the Machines is an immersive journey through the minds of history’s great masters—Mozart, Da Vinci, Hokusai—reimagined with the tools of tomorrow. As the centerpiece of the Mercer Labs Museum of Art, the show blurs the line between analog past and digital future, offering large-scale installations, 360-degree projections, robotic sculptures, and responsive infinity rooms.
A standout installation inspired by Hokusai’s The Great Wave transforms audience movement into digital tides. Another brings Da Vinci’s sketches to life as kinetic machines, while Mozart’s compositions are rendered anew through generative sound algorithms. Soundscapes co-created with music icon Timbaland guide visitors through emotional layers of the exhibition—proof of how Mercer Labs New York blends culture and code with finesse.
This latest project affirms Mercer Labs’ mission: to reshape how we experience creativity. With a legacy of collaborations—from Alicia Keys to Dua Lipa—the Mercer Labs Museum of Art continues to evolve as a cultural force where technology and human expression meet. Maestros and the Machines is more than a show—it’s an exploration of how far imagination can go when past and future collide.
Photography courtesy of MERCER LABS