Onassis ONX

An outward field-building platform

Onassis ONX actively participates in the global new media art landscape by forming solid institutional partnerships, collaborating with industry leaders, and engaging in production and distribution networks worldwide. Onassis ONX partners with organizations such as NEW INC, Rhizome, Pioneer Works, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and Games 4 Change in New York and with IDFA, CPH:DOX, DiMoDA, and PHI Centre globally.

Extending the future

Onassis ONX, previously known as ONX Studio, began as an artistic accelerator and hybrid production/exhibition space in Midtown Manhattan, jointly founded in 2020 by the Onassis Foundation and New Museum’s NEW INC. Today, it has evolved into a comprehensive global new media art program supporting creators through all the stages of their work, from development to distribution, standing out in the international artistic ecosystem as a prominent hub. With physical locations in Athens (artistic incubator) and New York (artistic accelerator), Onassis ONX bridges these two dynamic cities and fosters and expands local and international new media art scenes.

West to East, South to North

Onassis ONX fellows can be found from New York to Athens, from Los Angeles to Austin, Louisville, and Pittsburgh, and from London to Istanbul and Lisbon. They have developed and presented works around the world by participating in renowned festivals and exhibitions, including South by Southwest, Venice International Film Festival, Ars Electronica Festival, Plásmata exhibitions in Athens and Ioannina, Tribeca Festival, Mutek, and BAM’s Next Wave Festival.

TECHNE is an experiential program presented jointly by the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), the Onassis Foundation, and the Under the Radar festival, comprising four large-scale digital artworks curated by Onassis ONX. Created with generative AI, real-time interactive displays, and immersive sound, this program transports viewers into four distinctive realms, brought to life by visionary creators.

“The Vivid Unknown” (4, 5, & 7 January 2025), by John Fitzgerald and Godfrey Reggio, is a collective experience that uses AI and computer vision to reimagine Reggio’s iconic 1982 film, “Koyaanisqatsi”. As part of this presentation, “Koyaanisqatsi” will be screened at BAM Rose Cinemas on 7 January 2025.

“The Golden Key” (8–11 January 2025), by Marc Da Costa and Matthew Niederhauser, 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.

In “Voices” (12, 14, & 15 January 2025), artist Margarita Athanasiou dives into the hidden histories of Victorian era mediums and contemporary spiritualists, including her own grandmother. What emerges is a story about female empowerment, capitalism, and the unexpected relationship between information technology and the spirit world.

In “Secret Garden” (16-19 January 2025), 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.

Group Hug is a landmark exhibition of large-scale, site-specific video game installations by renowned international artists Theo Triantafyllidis, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, and Tale of Tales (Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn). Visitors are invited to play together and lose themselves in the sensorial worlds of each game through sight, sound, and touch, as they must learn to communicate and cooperate in order to survive.

The title Group Hug is inspired by the idea of radical collaboration, with each work elevating group play over traditional individualistic game logic.

The exhibition will be on view from September 26 to October 20, 2024, at WSA in New York, presented by Onassis ONX with Water Street Projects and in collaboration with curator Julia Kaganskiy, Serpentine Arts Technologies, and Rhizome.

“Blur”, an extended reality theatrical production, unfolds as a dreamscape, taking participants on a journey of reflection on grief and eternality. Written and directed by Craig Quintero and Phoebe Greenberg, the mixed reality experience is a new myth for the modern age, where science has changed how we think about life and death. Co-produced by PHI Studio (Canada), Riverbed Theatre Ltd. (Taiwan), and Onassis Culture, this poetic fusion of live performance and extended reality immerses you in a world where the boundaries between real and virtual, natural and artificial, collapse.

Premiering in March 2025 in Taiwan, “Blur” shatters conventional storytelling and takes the audience through a transformative narrative that challenges their perceptions and evokes a deeper connection to human existence.