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Onassis ONX and MIT Open DocLab Announce New Fellowship Collaboration

October 2024 to June 2025 in New York

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Onassis ONX is excited to inaugurate a new fellowship with the MIT Open Documentary Lab. Initiated as an exchange, one artist from the Onassis ONX community and one from the MIT Open Doclab community will be given the opportunity to join both programs for an academic year. This partnership hinges on both MIT and Onassis’s shared commitment to innovative nonfiction storytelling at the intersections of art and technology.

“Be Longing XR” courtesy of Yara Feghali and Viviane El Kmati

For the academic year Fall 2024 - Spring 2025, Onassis ONX member Yara Feghali has been selected to fully integrate into MIT OpenDoc Lab’s academic and creative network, gaining opportunities for hands-on research and project development. In exchange, MIT OpenDoc Lab fellow Ryat Yezbick has joined the Onassis ONX community, gaining full access to the Onassis ONX studio in NYC, as well as travel support and consultation with the Onassis ONX staff. This exchange is designed to deepen collaborative efforts, fostering groundbreaking projects that challenge the boundaries of both storytelling and media.

The MIT Open Documentary Lab serves as a leading hub for innovation in documentary form. With a mission grounded in research and experimentation, the Lab brings together artists, technologists, and scholars to collaborate on new methods of representing the world through documentary. Its focus on immersive, interactive, and collaborative storytelling has pushed the medium to new frontiers, offering fresh perspectives on reality-based narratives.

This partnership not only strengthens the connection between these two leading cultural and academic institutions but also provides a powerful platform for expanding the possibilities of immersive storytelling. The fellowship represents a significant step towards shaping the future of documentary media, enabling both Onassis ONX and MIT OpenDoc Lab to continue their shared legacy of nurturing cutting-edge creative practices and pushing the limits of documentary storytelling.

This years Onassis ONX - MIT Open Doc Lab Fellows:

Yara Feghali (ONX Member)

Ryat Yezbick (ONX Member through MIT for the year)

About MIT Open Doc Lab:

The MIT Open Documentary Lab, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), bridges innovation and accessible information, bringing storytellers, technologists, and scholars together to advance the new arts of documentary. The Lab understands Documentary as a project rather than as a genre bound to a particular medium: documentary offers ways of exploring, representing, and critically engaging the world. It explores the potential of emerging technologies and techniques to enhance the documentary project by including new voices, telling new stories and reaching new audiences. A center for documentary research, the Lab offers courses, workshops, a fellows program, public lectures, and conferences; it incubates experimental projects; and it develops tools, resources, reports, and critical discourse. These activities, and the partnerships with artists, journalists, technologists, and media makers that they have enabled, aim to push documentary’s boundaries and deepen the impact and reach of innovative reality-based storytelling.

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