Join 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.

Join 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.

Contact 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.

Join 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.

Producer and AR expert Adaora Udoji will moderate 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?

Artist Dakota Gearhart moderates a conversation between biologist and author Dr. David Haskell and composer Dr. Paula Matthusen about what it means to explore and create through sound rather than light. What can we learn about how these capacities evolved over time and what does it mean to compose music for human audiences that brings us closer to understanding the world and our environment from a non-human and sonic point of view?

ONX Artist Series is an artist-led conversation series. The series intends to expand the definition of extended reality and focus on the thinking, feeling, and methods involved in creating new works.

An artist talk and XR performance featuring experimental, avant-garde artist Lamb in conversation with writer and artist Dani Brito.

A virtual program featuring moderator Loren Hammonds, Senior Programmer at Tribeca Film Festival, in conversation with artists Stephanie Dinkins and Loukia Alavanou whose practices embrace impactful storytelling through VR, AR and experiential design.

A virtual program featuring moderator Janet Wong, the Associate Artistic Director of New York Live Arts, in conversation with three artists – Sarah Rothberg, Theo Triantafyllidis, and Lu Yang – whose practices embrace the fluid nature of various “realities.”