Public Programs

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.

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.

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!

A falling or a shooting star quickly crosses the sky. What kinds of wishes do we want to make for our ever changing environment? As a licensed Star Catcher, you’re invited to grab a net and reach up to catch stars in a simulated night sky. Star Catcher is an immersive participatory installation created with projections and magical objects, where the audience is performer and player.

The exhibition features two artworks: the VR experience “Atmospheric Forest” (2020) and the immersive visualization “Deep Sensing. RT-32 Revisited” (2002 / 2022).

Through Motion Capture, member artists engage in notions of ancestral memory, Afrofuturist resources, the nature of corporeal presence, the history of body image, human and extra-human movement, all aiming to develop new forms of narrative, character and interactivity.

Producer and AR expert Adaora Udoji will moderate a conversation between cognitive psychologist Dr. Nicola Clayton and artist Modesto Flako Jimenez on what we can learn from studying the structures of cognition in animals. How might this research help us understand the nature of memory in humans, and what are the implications for developing creative and community-centered approaches to addressing diseases such as Alzheimer's?

Artist Dakota Gearhart moderates a conversation between biologist and author Dr. David Haskell and composer Dr. Paula Matthusen about what it means to explore and create through sound rather than light. What can we learn about how these capacities evolved over time and what does it mean to compose music for human audiences that brings us closer to understanding the world and our environment from a non-human and sonic point of view?

A NASA Webb VR experience with new VR and physical work inspired by Webb’s first images in coordination with the James Webb Space Telescope team.

At the advent of the endemic, the artists have chosen to present two artworks that, each in a different way, explore how technology makes us and lay the ground for our human umwelt: how it connects and disconnects us from each other and other life-forms and processes.

ONX Artist Series is an artist-led conversation series. The series intends to expand the definition of extended reality and focus on the thinking, feeling, and methods involved in creating new works.

A four-day showcase of artworks and performances featuring members of NEW INC's Extended Realities Track at ONX Studio.

An artist talk and XR performance featuring experimental, avant-garde artist Lamb in conversation with writer and artist Dani Brito.