With All Due Respect: Onassis ONX Summer Showcase
Poster Image from The Maintenance Game by Peter Burr, Design by Matthew Toups
With All Due Respect, the annual Onassis ONX Summer Showcase brings together four artworks, including a performance, by ONX members that question our relationship to AI and technology. Using multi-channel video projections, spatial sound, trained LLMs, and EEG readers, each of these developing works pose alternative uses for technology for interaction and storytelling.
Showcase Dates: June 7 - 8, 2025 Opening Hours: 1-7 PM Opening Reception: Saturday, June 7, 2025 from 7-9PM Location: Onassis ONX, 645 5th Avenue, Lower Level Featured Artists: Graham Sack, Matt McCorkle, Michaela Ternasky-Holland, Peter Burr Opening Reception Performance by Viola He Curatorial Assistant Kassandra Schengili
The Maintenance Game Peter Burr
A self-sustaining simulation populated by digital entities navigating a decaying architectural maze. Each character enacts a behavioral logic: repairing failing systems, preserving obsolete protocols, maintaining illusions of order. The structure does not collapse, but it never heals. This is maintenance as ritual, bureaucracy as fate.
Neuro-Cinema: From Synapse to Montage Graham Sack
An immersive, multi-channel video installation that combines excerpts from the speculative film NeuroPlastic (2025) with EEG-controlled interactivity. Audience members influence the live edit sequence and control a robotic prosthetic arm via real-time brainwave activity, engaging directly with the ethical and experiential implications of brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies.
ORIGIN Matt McCorkle
In a climate-ravaged future, humanity uploads its consciousness into The Red Orb, a digital sanctuary. Guiding and protecting this haven is Origin—a liminal being able to traverse digital and physical realms, mend corrupted code, and shape matter. Discover what endures when humanity’s legacy is entrusted to an evolving intelligence.
The Gr(ai)t Debate Michaela Ternasky-Holland in collaboration with Mikel Glass
A live performance experience where AI-generated political candidates debate in real time about questions presented by audience members. The physical art in the experience created by Mikel Glass is inspired by a government building façade constructed from tech hardware, suggesting how digital systems increasingly mediate our civic participation.
Here and Where You Are Viola He
An audio-visual experience that thrusts viewers into a circular digital metropolis that transforms from a dreamlike childhood TV room into pulsing industrial techno landscapes. Through pixelated walls of light, abstracted human silhouettes navigate urban currents while rushing toward connection. In the circular digital cityscape, many stories, sounds, and sights run parallel yet blend into one - and in those chaotic landscapes we search for someone who matters.