Join 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 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 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.
Read MoreOnassis ONX is proud to announce that five projects created by ONX members will be going to SXSW 2024, including: Eclipsing by Andrew Schneider and Annie Saunders; Antipsychotic by Matt McCorkle; Shadowtime by Sister Sylvester and Deniz Tortum; and Tulpamancer and The Golden Key by Matthew Niederhauser and Marc Da Costa.
Read MoreThis series is hosted weekly on Fridays, through May 2024. The series website linked below holds information on upcoming speakers throughout the series. These events are open to the public, but RSVP is required for non-NYU guests in advance.
Read MoreNEW INC and EY Metaverse Lab proudly present two multimedia installations at Onassis ONX, developed during the collaboration’s artists-in-residence program. The initiative brings together artists and technologists to explore challenges and issues affecting humanity today. This year’s program features artists Laura Splan and Eva Daidova. Splan is developing Metafrictions, a work that examines new epistemologies emerging alongside notions of the metaverse and the cognitive impact immersive digital worlds may have on top of embodied experiences. Daidova will present Audience as Virus, a performance dependent on audience participation as it examines the current limitations of AI’s predictive abilities. Both artists’ works raise awareness of technology’s growing homogeneity—its effects on humanity and creative attempts to break free.
Read MoreJoin us on February 8th at 5 PM at Onassis ONX Studio for a one-night-only installation of "Reclaiming: 00:08:46 of Juju" by Michael Sawyer. Alongside the installation, Michael Sawyer will engage in a public discussion in the studio’s main space with Flores Forbes, a writer and law professor from Columbia University. The scholars will discuss the artwork, the process of creating art about police violence, and related subjects.
Read MoreTRANSHUMANIST CEPHALOPOD EVOLUTION is a psycho-physical training regimen for human enhancement, with the cephalopod as our role model species. We study cephalopod sensitivities and capacities, and attempt to understand their way of being in the world through embodied exercises. This event will be held alongside a closing reception for the Onassis ONX Winter Exhibition on February 3rd from 5pm to 8pm.
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce the inaugural Winter Exhibition, All Will be Considered. Drawing from the vast talents of the Onassis ONX membership, the exhibition comprises new media works on themes including science fiction, identity/otherness, nonhuman subjectivities, and Anthropocene ecologies.
Read MoreA live motion capture theater piece for the video game addled psyche.
Read MoreRhizome is pleased to announce a new workshop, "Signal Representation Theory for Artists," taught by Max Ardito. Implicit in generative AI, computer software, programming languages, hardware, and data itself, lies an unspoken ideology to which we consent as both artists and consumers: that of signal representation. Signal representation theory is a field that is concerned with the representation of real-world phenomena—language, image, sound—through ideas and structures in pure mathematics. Signal representations are depictions of the world, no different than paintings, poetry, or sheet music.
Read MoreREVERSE TAR PIT is a group exhibition that launches alongside 103 internet art exhibitions as part of The Wrong Biennale, five of which are hosted at New Art City. Join us at Onassis ONX Studio in New York City for a reception, installation, and artist talks on November 30th from 6-8pm. This exhibition is the first in a series of experiments led by New Art City exploring new forms of hybrid exhibition modalities, as the virtual-first gallery expands into physical spaces.
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