Shown as part of TECHNE @ BAM from Jan 16-19, Stephanie Dinkins has cultivated a virtual oasis populated with Black women who share stories of power and resilience. Multigenerational narratives collapse past, present, and future across interactive vignettes.
Read MoreShown as part of TECHNE @ BAM from Jan 12-15, Voices is a video essay weaved around the history of mediumship practices as a tool for female empowerment. Balancing between the poetic, the informative and the magical, this very personal work traces the artist’s own family history within this field, travels through the lives of channeling practitioners across centuries and presents the parallel evolution of new age spirituality and information technologies that frame the body as the ultimate communication device.
Read MoreShowing as part of UTR ‘25 from Jan 10-14, Runway by Christiana Kosiari features a woman maniacally jogging in place, a practice as much for her health as for self-torture. Μusic monitors the metronome of her steps. Inspired by the runway of international fashion, RUNWAY explores the array of behaviors and transformations of a woman striving for her era’s dominant beauty standards. The glamor of the catwalk morphs into a mannered and absurd march, as the performer walks, runs, stumbles, applies make-up, fixes her hair, stumbles on her heels, and only barely recovers her balance in a race against the terrifying corrosion of time.
Read MoreShowing as part of UTR ‘25 from Jan 10-14, A of one’s own is an XR performance and hysterical journey about making creative work within a confined space. Through voice loops, motion capture, and audio-visual fragments in projected scenes, the unnamed protagonist takes us through their adolescence as they navigate sickness, immigration, and a multilingual artistic career. Reality and fiction bleed together in this playful and raw exploration of the joys and horrors of being trapped in one’s own creative brain.
Read MoreShowing as part of TECHNE @ BAM from Jan 8-11, The Golden Key immerses visitors in the mythical fantasies of an artificially intelligent machine as it composes a never ending story. The work imagines a future world that has endured the severest impacts of climate change. "The Golden Key" is an artifact, a time capsule, a provocation that was left behind in the last days of the old world. It invites participants to reconstruct a lost mythological history by interacting with digital prompts displayed on the exhibition floor. As the narrative progresses, a flowing sequence of stories, visuals, and audio is created by combining visitors' input with an AI system built on tens of thousands of folktales from around the old world, a range of narrative fragments reflecting our most fundamental concerns.
Read MoreBAM, Onassis, and Under the Radar Present: TECHNE. A multi-part experiential program comprising four large-scale digital artworks. Created with generative AI, real-time interactive displays, and immersive sound, this program transports viewers into four distinctive new realms, brought to life by visionary creators. On show at: BAM Fisher, Fishman Space from Jan 4-19, 2025
Read MoreShowing as part of TECHNE @ BAM from Jan 4-7, The Vivid Unknown by John Fitzgerald and Godfrey Reggio, is a collective experience that uses AI and computer vision to reimagine Reggio’s iconic 1982 film, Koyaanisqatsi. Visitors will explore the primal nexus of humans, nature, and technology, dynamically participating in shaping the unfolding narrative. As part of this special program, Koyaanisqatsi will be screened in its original form at BAM Rose Cinemas on January 7.
Read MoreJoin us for the Black Metal Starship Program by Afrotectopia at 6PM on Friday, November 1. Black Metal Starship Program is designed to simulate the Black Metal Experience through immersive cinema. Black Metal is a new protocol for space travel. Simultaneously, it is a tool for navigating the inner self. Its pages explore speculative plants in outer space, a space suit that comprehensively links with mind, body, and spirit, a novel cinematic excerpt of a Black Metal experience, and a workbook teaching a robust process on cultivating your best self.
Read MoreA special performance of DENTAXUVIA at Onassis ONX with Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou and Huntrezz Janos at 6PM on Monday, October 28th!
Read MoreOnassis ONX and Pioneer Works present an activation of a new Metalabel project, Black Beyond’s Warpmode, during Group Hug at WSA. The program will feature a conversation between curator Tamar Clarke-Brown, Serpentine Arts Technologies, who commissioned artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s work in Group Hug and Jazsalyn from Black Beyond. The conversation will be followed by a performance from Dreamcrusher.
Read MoreCoded Dreams from ONX members Marc Da Costa and Matthew Niederhauser is an innovative exhibition that encourages audiences to explore the frontiers of artificial intelligence and unlock the doors of their imagination through two unique and captivating installations: “Tulpamancer” and “The Golden Key."
Read MoreJoin artist Theo Triantafyllidis, curator Julia Kaganskiy, and Gameplayarts executive director Jamin Warren for a provocative exploration of Triantafyllidis' groundbreaking work, “Feral Metaverse.” This conversation will expand on how the project challenges our understanding of virtual interactions and proposes radical alternatives to dominant digital paradigms.
Read MoreJoin Rhizome.org and Solar Protocol for a conversation about the climate impact of digital cultures, and – taking a cue from Endless Forest – alternative modes of engaging with the internet and its infrastructure.
Read MoreGroup Hug is a landmark exhibition of large-scale, site-specific video game installations by artists Theo Triantafyllidis, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, and Tale of Tales (Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn). Presented with Water Street Projects in collaboration with curator Julia Kaganskiy, Serpentine Arts Technologies, and Rhizome.
Read MoreThe 2024 Games For Change Festival is running from June 26th to June 30th, and will be hosting the G4C Immersive Arcade at Onassis ONX, featuring 6 unique projects on display during the festival to ticket holders: Groove Catcher by Vizmoo, I Will Defy You Until My Dying Breath, Doors We Open, Current, The Loon, and Normandie: A Documentary Video Game. The arcade will be running from 12-6 each day during the festival, with Current available off site at Zucotti Park from 5:30-8PM.
Read MoreContact Zone (Level 2) Infinitely iterating computer-generated animation with original soundtrack, projected live from the world in 270 degreesAn infinitely changing computer-generated animation. Two sites of rewilding collide—the Swiss Alps and the artist’s intestines—while an AI monitors them, itching to intervene. The animation is populated by imaged creatures generated by computer models, conjured by text-to-image AI algorithms, and captured by automated camera traps in the forest. It is accompanied by a seven-chapter soundtrack that uses sonic strategies of repetition, interruption, and release in weaving together ecological and mythological histories with philosophies of seeing, knowing, and controlling. The animation unfolds in endless permutations as the algorithm assembles the narrative order; field recordings; location, time and weather; creature actions; and camera views in ever-new variations, enabling fresh meanings to emerge.
Read MoreThe Summer Showcase brings together a selection of recent XR projects created by artists in the Onassis ONX membership. Using a diversity of narrative and aesthetic tactics, the works on display illuminate stories of migration, marginalization, and transfiguration. The XR field is grounded here in physical space by mixed-media assemblage and sculpture. In some cases, tactile installations point to a third space of ritual. In others, physical-digital dynamics frame statements on history and identity. In all of the works on view, fantasy plays a key role in bridging the gap between what is and what could be.
Read MoreThe Summer Showcase brings together a selection of recent XR projects created by artists in the Onassis ONX membership. Using a diversity of narrative and aesthetic tactics, the works on display illuminate stories of migration, marginalization, and transfiguration. The XR field is grounded here in physical space by mixed-media assemblage and sculpture. In some cases, tactile installations point to a third space of ritual. In others, physical-digital dynamics frame statements on history and identity. In all of the works on view, fantasy plays a key role in bridging the gap between what is and what could be.
Read MoreJoin us at Onassis ONX (or online!) for a conversation about net art history with artist Auriea Harvey, hosted by Rhizome in partnership with Museum of the Moving Image. The event marks the launch of ArtBase Anthologies, Rhizome’s new initiative offering perspectives on digital art history through selected works. The livestream being hosted at Onassis ONX starts promptly at 12:30PM.
Read MoreNEW INC and Onassis ONX are pleased to present Particles and Digital Serfs: A Two-Person Exhibition featuring Itziar Barrio and Janet Biggs, curated by Jane Ursula Harris. The exhibition opens on Thursday, March 21st with a reception from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. A new collaborative performance between Barrio and Biggs will be presented on Saturday, March 23rd from 6-8pm, performance starting at 6:30pm, followed by a reception. The performance is made possible with additional support from Hyphen Hub. The exhibition ends on Sunday, March 24th.
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