Inter(mediate) Spaces: Talk & Demo Presentation (NYC)
EVENT & DEMO DETAILS: 🗓 Artist Talk on Thu, Dec 11th at 6:00 pm ᯅ Immersive experience - 45-minute appointments, by RSVP from Dec 11 to 12th. 📍 Onassis ONX, 645 5th Avenue, Lower Level, New York, NY 10022
Shared spaces are disappearing in today’s fast-paced and urbanizing, algorithmic world. People live close together yet often feel disconnected. How might new technologies, like AI and XR, be used to create spaces where connection can be more meaningfully cultivated?
Please join us for an introduction and demo to Inter(mediate) Spaces. The evening will begin with a talk with Berlin-based artist Chloé Lee and creative technologist Lucas Martinic, and will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Jazia Hammoudi. There will be drinks and snacks after, along with the opportunity to try the experience!
Inter(mediate) Spaces brings two people together in an experience that blends virtual and physical spaces to explore technology’s promise of connection. In this social experiment, two people don virtual reality headsets and begin at opposite ends of the room, gradually moving through layered digital audiovisual memory landscapes created in community labs held in Berlin, New York, and Montreal. As the two people arrive at a shared meeting point, they see their interactions and words shape an imagined world around them. This moment of convergence becomes a poetic and physical expression of connection across evolving spaces and distance, leaving us to reflect on our agency to collectively shape our shared future.
“Community might be the most potent counter to a fractured society [and] it can be something found while shaping a collective vision that holds multiple possibilities.”
The New York environments were co-created during a public lab in 2024. This prototype phase invites everyday passersby to try the experience and contribute feedback that will shape the final version.
This presentation is co-presented by Onassis ONX and Present Futures, and is funded by
Medienboard Berlin‑Brandenburg and Agog.
Email info@presentfutures.de for further questions.
About the Artist:
Chloé Lee is a Chinese-American artist and producer based in Berlin. She works with sound, video, haptics, and XR to create interactive, place-based works that explore personal and collective memory, reality, and futures. As a 2021–2022 Germany Fulbright Research Scholar, she created the virtual-reality exhibition Temporal World, a poetic and personal memory project. The work premiered internationally at SXSW in 2023 and has shown at festivals and exhibitions around the world, including the Art VR Festival at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art (Prague) and the 2023 European XR Awards (Brussels), where it was nominated for Best XR Experience. In 2025, her open-world documentary Reflections of Little Red Dot—exploring the lived experiences of people in Singapore’s rapidly changing urban landscape—earned the SXSW Jury Prize, GIFF Reflect d’Or for Best Immersive Experience, and the independent film critics’ Bisato d’Oro Award for Best Immersive at the Venice International Film Festival.
She is the co-founder and Creative Director of Present Futures, a Berlin-based immersive media and software studio, which she co-leads with developer Lucas Martinic.
Lucas Martinic is an XR developer and creative with deep XR engineering, AI, and rapid prototyping expertise, creating globally recognized experiences that push interactive design and mixed-reality boundaries aiming to inspire and make XR more accessible. He mentors and teaches students from around the globe through the Beyond Inclusion program at XR Bootcamp, where underrepresented aspiring developers receive top-quality XR education. His latest work has been at the intersection of XR and AI, and it has been awarded at events across Europe and the USA, such as XRHack London, MIT Reality Hack Boston, and XRCC Berlin.