ONX Studio for Extended Reality opens in New York by Onassis USA and NEW INC

Onassis USA and the New Museum’s NEW INC are pleased to announce the launch of ONX Studio—the Onassis NEW INC eXtended Reality Studio—with two dozen artists and producers working in mixed reality, for a year-long term to develop significant works for the public realm.

ONX Studio distinguishes itself as a hybrid space where work is both created and presented. It functions as an accelerator, a subsidized production studio and workspace, and an exhibition gallery located in the Onassis Gallery of Olympic Tower in Midtown Manhattan. Each year the studio space will transform into a mixed reality gallery for a month-long showcase featuring ONX artists. The first showcase is planned for later in 2021. ONX is a two-year pilot program and steered by NEW INC’s Cofounder Karen Wong and Director Stephanie Pereira, and the Onassis Foundation’s Head of Digital and Innovation Prodromos Tsiavos.The ONX Studio will be in close dialogue with NEW INC (New York City) and Onassis Lab (Athens), the Onassis Foundation’s cross-disciplinary incubator that seeks to support innovation and disruption across disciplines. The three entities will support each other through curated conversations, skill sharing, and collaborative projects with a goal of creating an ecosystem that connects mixed reality artists in the US and Europe and beyond.

“At the heart of the Onassis Foundation, we are committed to artistic vision and how creators make us see things anew. More than ever, the way forward is through collaboration and ONX Studio is a manifestation of that belief”

- Afroditi Panagiotakou, Director of Culture, Onassis Foundation.

Extended Realities in Live Performance

ONX Studio’s first international event took place on December 18th, “Bodies in Space: Extended Realities in Live Performance,” in which three mixed reality artists—Sarah Rothberg, Theo Triantafyllidis, and Lu Yang—will be in conversation with Janet Wong, Associate Artistic Director at New York Live Arts.

In partnership with Onassis USA, the ONX Studio will be home to a new community of artists and producers whose practices range from the embodied Black experience to audio explorations to performative multiplayer climate change games.

“Onassis Foundation has been an incredible partner and together we are building an extended reality community that is international, talented, diverse and value-centric. As a space for wild, artistic experimentation supported by a global community of expert advisors and a purpose-built XR production studio, ONX isn’t like anything else out there.”

- Stephanie Pereira, NEW INC’s Director

The artists in the inaugural cohort of ONX Studio are Annie Saunders and Nicole McDonald; Ari Melenciano; Daniel Leithinger; Glenn Cantave, Idris Brewster, and Micah Milner; Gershon Dublon and Xin Liu; John Fitzgerald and Matthew Niederhauser; Kathryn Hamilton and Deniz Tortum; Kordae Jatafa Henry and Jeremy Kamal; Milica Zec, Shelley Hu, and Winslow Porter; Reese Donohue; Sadah Espii Proctor; Sarah Rothberg; Stephanie Dinkins; and Steven Schardt.

Three Greek artists have also been selected as the inaugural Onassis Fellows at ONX Studio. Loukia Alavanou, Manolis Manousakis, and Theo Triantafyllidis will be in dialogue with the studio community through virtual residencies and programs—resulting in future collaborations and participation in the annual showcase.

About ONX

The ONX Studio, a 3,000-square feet space, provides a hybrid studio-lab for this growing community of mixed reality artists where they will be able to develop, beta test, and demo their works in a presentation gallery for curators, producers, collectors, and agencies. The space was designed by the NYC-based architectural firm Leong Leong.The ONX Studio is fortunate to have an international advisory council whose members hail from US mixed-reality hotspots LA, NYC, SF, as well as Athens, London, Paris, Cape Town, and Melbourne. ONX Advisory Council is as follows: Chair Afroditi Panagiotakou, Director of Culture, Onassis Foundation; Antoine Cayrol, Co-founder, Atlas V; Daanish Masood Alavi, Innovation at the United Nations; Gaby Darbyshire, Founder & Principal, Framestore Ventures; Hunter Gray, Film Producer; Ingrid Kopp, Co-founder, Electric South; Irini Mirena Papadimitriou, Creative Director, FutureEverything; Jake Sally, Head of Development, RYOT; James George, CEO and Co-Founder, Scatter; Kamal Sinclair, Executive Director, Guild of Future Architects; Katrina Sedgwick, CEO Australian Centre for the Moving Image; Laurie Anderson, Writer, Director, Artist, Vocalist; Loren Hammonds, Senior Programmer of Film and Immersive, Tribeca Film Festival; Loretta Scott Todd, Creative Director, IM4 Lab Indigenous VR/AR/XR Lab; Dr. Maria Roussou, Professor, Interactive Systems, Athens University; Timoni West, Director of XR Tools, Unity; and Vallejo Gantner, Artistic Executive Director, Onassis USA.

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