Public Programs

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.

Shown 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.

Showing 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.

Showing 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. 

Showing 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.

BAM, 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

Showing 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.

Coded 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."

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.

A special performance of DENTAXUVIA at Onassis ONX with Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou and Huntrezz Janos at 6PM on Monday, October 28th!

Onassis 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. 

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.

Group 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.

The 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.

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.

The 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.

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.

NEW 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.

Onassis 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.

This 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.

NEW 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.

Join 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.

TRANSHUMANIST 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.

We 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.

A live motion capture theater piece for the video game addled psyche.

Rhizome 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.

REVERSE 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.

Media Art Xploration (MAX) presents MAXlive 2023: Where Is My Body?, a festival of world premiere and new performances grappling with some of the most pressing questions opened up by scientific and technological advancements, and how they’ve reshaped our relationship to our bodies and minds.

New Sculpt from LaTurbo Avedon is an exhibition that opened in July 2013 at TRANSFER. Ahead of its time in many ways, the installation spanned the brick-and-mortar gallery space and a virtual environment (via Second Life). The works were priced and sold in bitcoin. A decade later, TRANSFER is restaging this exhibition in partnership with Onassis ONX Studio, and discussing vital preventive conservation work in the open to demonstrate the care that is required to sustain experimental time-based media artwork.

As part of our new collaboration with the MoMI, ONX Member Eva Davidova will be exhibiting GLOBAL MODE > in the museum lobby on the Herbert S. Schlosser Media Wall. This large-scale interactive installation will be on view from October 20 to February 11, 2024. RSVP below for the opening on October 19, 6-8PM.

DiMoDa is proud to present the New York premiere of its 4th exhibition: Dis/Location at ONX. Curated by Christiane Paul, Dis/Location addresses the feeling of displacement from or disturbance of a proper, original, or usual place that has become a defining experience of our time.

DEMO2023 is NEW INC’s festival presenting the next generation of creative projects and enterprises through exhibitions, installations, performances, and talks by industry leaders and NEW INC members at the New Museum and partner venues across New York City. 

The Annual Games for Change Festival is the largest industry-facing event for social impact games globally. Projects shown in the Immersive Arcade highlight the current state of the industry while also interrogating the global future of games and XR in education, health and wellness, civic engagement, environmental sustainability, and more.

In celebration of all of our friends who are in town for the TriBeCa Film Festival, we’re holding a showcase of member work in the studio from June 9-11th. The program will include VR works, an immersive sound installation, two machine learning collaborations, and more. Come see a series of performance projects at the opening June 8th from 6-8pm, or Saturday afternoon June 10th from 1-3pm.

A Pop-Up Exhibition and NY-Book Release Party celebrating the Publication of Carla Gannis’ Wwwunderkammer and The Archive to Come.

“Through the Walls” includes two newly commissioned XR artworks that are directly inspired by, and use, Cavafy’s original poetry: “Walls” by Ali Santana; and “Ekphrasis” by Matthew Niederhauser & Marc Da Costa. This program is part of the Onassis Foundation's "Archive of Desire": A Festival Inspired by the Poet C. P. Cavafy, a multi-venue, multidisciplinary celebration of the internationally influential Greek poet, curated by composer Paola Prestini.

This month we are hosting a motion capture tech demo by LaJuné McMillian at ONX Studio. No prior experience needed! Please join us for networking, drinks, and snacks. ONX is interested in supporting women in tech and is excited to open its doors to the Lady Tech Guild!