PROGRESS: Onassis ONX Winter Exhibition 2025
Opening Reception:
Thursday, Feb 20th, 7:00 - 9:00PM
Public Viewing Hours:
1-7PM, February 21-23 & February 28 - March 2, 2025
Featured Artists:
Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou ⚬ Kyriaki Goni ⚬ Lisa Jamhoury ⚬ Matthew Gantt ⚬ Nouf Aljowaysir ⚬ Sarah Rothberg
PROGRESS, the second annual Onassis ONX Winter Exhibition, brings together six artworks by ONX members that play against the forward march of time. Using multichannel video, spatial audio, custom software, games engines, machine learning, augmented reality, and sculpture, each of these works speak to intimate, domestic relationships with technology. Some of these artists describe themselves as tinkerers. Others find sentience in their software and an independent animus in their imagined worlds. Technology as a tool for product, or progress, disappears here in the studio. What emerges instead are looping rabbit holes of imagination, dream worlds, and new configurations of sociality.
New Suns Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou
New Suns is a three-channel sci-fi film envisioning a post-apocalyptic future where the downfall of the monumental fosters a fragmented stage for performing acts of queer survival, transformation, and planetary regeneration. It suggests that if we trust the elemental wisdom of the turbulent waters, new suns may rise, and hope may appear on the horizon of a dystopian world.
L’Entrée Lisa Jamhoury
Amid a global migration between physical and virtual worlds, L’Entrée explores the desire to capture, parse, and regulate the vital human body. A transmedia installation, L’Entrée reveals virtual sculptures situated in pedestrianized areas humming with human movement.
The sculptures, created in a gaming engine with photogrammetry, motion capture, and computational averaging, each perform a virtual “dance,” immersing viewers in their unique forms.
L’Entrée features movement by Françoise Voranger and Andrea (Nikki) Ortiz of Hybrid Movement Company, and music and sound by Matt McCorkle.
Telling the Bees Kyriaki Goni
Telling the bees (The Game) is a speculative video/game presented alongside physical objects. In a near future the Beeseeker equipped with the smarologos—an ancient woven basket used to host bees, navigates the Aegean landscape ravaged by overtourism, wildfires and drought, looking for the last swarm of wild bees.
Homage to Jon Hassell Matthew D Gantt
Homage to Jon Hassell is a kind of musical composition-as-software, conceived in tribute to the evocative sonic palette and conceptual worldbuilding of the late composer and performer. Drawing from the distinct harmonized trumpet and hazy pacing of Hassell’s recorded work, this project reframes real-time simulation as generative music in a virtual terrarium.
Study for FOREVER MEETINGS Sarah Rothberg
A selection of artworks as a preview of Rothberg's upcoming solo show at bitforms gallery opening March 20. FOREVER MEETINGS presents animated conversations in hybrid human/LLM-driven forms. Part of Rothberg’s ongoing MEETINGS series (including NEW MEETINGS and SUPERPROMPT).
Unity Developer: Marpi LLM System Engineer: Yotam Mann
Salaf (Ancestors) Nouf Aljowaysir
Salaf (Ancestors) is an archival dataset of ~6,000 images symbolizing the limitations and failures of data collection and AI tools in collecting and interpreting Middle Eastern identity.
(all images courtesy the artists)