Enter 22.6

Video Enter: https://youtu.be/ia-8XRkOcjk

Photos: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mssy3skkkcg9viy/AAANOcL7LRrSJgFkZcYWm-2Ua?dl=0

Five big cities during the quarantine period; unending flourishing of nature; sunshine as a natural disinfectant; the promise of a reward; a diary that is constantly being written. Welcome to the world of ENTER. Visit onassis.org/enter.

New works by Kristin Lucas, Ari Melenciano, Zhenzhen Qi, Laurel Schwulst and Molly Soda

ENTER: Reflecting on the present day, this moment in time and the current situation, the Onassis Foundation continues to share and create without contact but with the same love for culture and its people, the artists and their audiences. During the last weeks, the Onassis Foundation has commissioned new, innovative works by artists from across the globe, created in 120 hours. Without having any access to theatre stages, rehearsal rooms or studios, the artists create everything on their own; their laptops are turned into a creative superpower. We press ENTER to view in our screens new artistic forms, new works, which aim to constitute a kind of artistic digital time-capsule; a ray of hope for the artistic world which has been hit hard, yet another proof that we are not alone.

The Onassis Foundation presents Week 8 of ENTER, their series of new works commissioned from artists in various parts of the world, drawing on experiences through the COVID-19 pandemic and its many transformations of life as we know it. For the series’ eighth week, Onassis USA has brought on NEW INC as organizer. Founded by the New Museum, NEW INC is the world's first museum-led incubator for art, technology, and design. They have invited artists and creative technologists including Kristin Lucas, Ari Melenciano, Zhenzhen Qi, Laurel Schwulst, and Molly Soda to contribute to Week 8. The resulting works engage various facets of technology as their mediums, reflecting quarantine’s acceleration of technology’s impact on our social, emotional, and professional selves. Week 8 works just went online (Monday, June 22), and can be viewed at onassis.org

In Eat me, artist Kristin Lucas enables us to “experience” the intense and extreme flourishing of nature during the quarantine. In Electrocology of Sound Travel, artist, designer, creative technologist, researcher, and educator Ari Melenciano creates an experience of virtual reality, illuminating five big cities during the quarantine period. Artist, researcher, and educator Zhenzhen Qi writes the web diary Quarantinediary.ai in an unexpected way, turning her gaze to our networked self. Artist, designer, and writer Laurel Schwulst designed an ambient website for her work Sunshine Piece, “exposing” us to the therapeutic properties of sunshine. Visual artist Molly Soda calls us to reexamine our virtual presence, initiating a digital “mischief” through the interactive web Reward.

Vallejo Gantner, Artistic and Executive Director of Onassis USA, says of NEW INC’s involvement in ENTER, “Our wonderful partnership with NEW INC has moved into another dimension—not only building the ONX Studio (Onassis, NEW INC eXtended Reality Studio) together, but now commissioning five remarkable works that push the boundaries of ‘live’ and truly explore the possibilities of digital art. Transcending video, playfully creating interactivity, and using different platforms, these works show the ingenuity, creativity and diversity of ideas and artists that is the hallmark of NEW INC.”

NEW INC Director Stephanie Pereira says, “We were delighted to be invited by Onassis to organize Week 8 of ENTER. Each interactive work created by this diverse group of NEW INC members is deceptively simple. Like our time at home, each one forces us to slow down and consider our environs in a new way, rewarding us with surprising discoveries and expanded perspectives.”

NEW INC, a program of the New Museum in New York City, was cofounded by Lisa Phillips and Karen Wong in 2013 and is the first museum led cultural incubator dedicated to supporting innovation, collaboration, and entrepreneurship across art, design, and technology. NEW INC’s Director is Stephanie Pereira.

Works by important artists from all over the world, belonging to different generations and artistic fields, are already available online. Since its launch on April 24, each week, the project has released new groupings of commissions, and in the coming weeks Onassis Foundation will continue to collaborate with exciting partners. Week 7 of ENTER featured artists including Katerina Andreou, Maria Diakopanagiotou, Ioannis Mandafounis, and Eun-Me Ahn. Week 6 included works by Yorgos Zois, Simos Kakalas, Eric Baudelaire, Tim Etchells - Jim Fletcher - Chris Thorpe, ITCHY-O, Ethan Lipton & his Orchestra, Daniel Wetzel. Week 5 was curated by The Chocolate Factory Theater with the following artists: Madeline Best & Brian Rogers, Tei Blow, keyon gaskin, Dynasty Handbag, Annie-B Parson. Week 4 of ENTER was curated by the Queens Museum, who engaged artists including Xin Liu, Samita Sinha, Frisly Soberanis, QUEENSBOUND, and Alina Tenser & Gabo Camnitzer; Greek artists who contributed to Week 4 included Lena Kitsopoulou, Maria Papadimitriou, and RootlessRoot. Week 3 included: acclaimed Independent Spirit Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated actress and writer Isabella Rossellini and Flying Karamazov Brothers member Paul Magid; Ziad Antar; Evi Kalogiropoulou; Kareem Kalokoh; Risa Puno and Avi Dobkin; RootlessRoot; Kostis Stafylakis, Theo Triantafyllidis, and Alexis Fidetzis; and Akira Takayama. Elias Adam, Simos Kakalas, Vasilis Kekatos, Andonis Foniadakis, Emily Johnson, Kathryn Hamilton (Sister Sylvester), RootlessRoot, and Stefanos Tsivopoulos were featured in Week 2; and the series launched in Week 1 with works from Dimitris Karantzas, Efthimis Filippou, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, Maria Antelman, Kimberly Bartosik, Annie Dorsen, and Radiohole.

Also uploaded soon will be new, innovative works by Isabella Rossellini & Paul Magid, Effie Birba and Aris Servetalis, Kat Válastur, Christos Sarris, as well as many more international artists and organizations, such as NEW INC. Press ΕΝΤΕR to view over 50 new artistic works, free of charge and time limit, and explore works that reflect on and give voice to the current situation.

In Brief

Kristin Lucas, Eat me

generative animation WebXR

Eat Me—an “in-your-face” confounding retort laced with innuendo and sarcasm—gains currency during the COVID-19 pandemic as we are stuck at home, frustratedly figuring out how to eat, what to eat, and who to eat. Meanwhile outdoors, animal species are happily thriving and eating in formerly people-occupied spaces. Eat Me indulges in nature’s insatiable appetites as a generative 360 WebXR animation punctuated by sounds of the artist eating. Designed to play on desktop, tablet and phone browsers.

Kristin Lucas intervenes in systems and paradigms to experiment with new ways of being in a technologized world. Her circuitous works resonate with humor, play and philosophical ponderings. Lucas has been featured in Art in America, Engadget, and Hyperallergic. She has presented her work nationally and internationally at venues including Artists Space, FACT Liverpool, Haus der Kunst, HeK Basel, ICA Philadelphia, MoMA, Nam June Paik Art Center, OK Center for Contemporary Art, New Museum, Pioneer Works, Whitney Museum of American Art, and ZKM; and at events and festivals including BAM Teknopolis, Cinekid, EarthXR, Engadget Alternate Realities, ISEA, Print Screen, TIFF, Transmediale, and WSJ Future of Everything.

Concept, creative direction, character design, motion design, sound composition, 2nd developer: Kristin Lucas

lead p5.js developer: Joe McKay

https://www.onassis.org/enter/eat-me-kristin-lucas

Ari Melenciano, Electrocology of Sound Travel

WebVR, soundscapes from modular synthesizer, programming, 3D rendering, images from Google Earth

In Electrocology of Sound Travel, Ari creates a relationship between planetary topographies, ecology, and abstract soundscapes as she designs algorithms that convert current quarantined-earth climate data into amplified electronic voltages. This is an audio-visual piece experienced through endless portals in a webVR environment.

Ari Melenciano is an artist, designer, creative technologist, researcher, and educator who is passionate about exploring the relationships between various forms of design and the human experience.

Currently, her research lies at the intersections of human-computer interactive technologies, social impacts of technology, counterculture, sound, multisensory experiential design, experimental pedagogy and speculative design. Melenciano is the founder of Afrotectopia, a social institution fostering interdisciplinary innovation at the intersections of art, design, technology, Black culture and activism.

https://www.onassis.org/enter/electrocology-sound-travel-ari-melenciano

Zhenzhen Qi, Quarantinediary.ai

Custom software

Quarantinediary.ai is a web diary co-authored by the artist and a Neural Network model trained by selected online articles published during COVID-19 self-isolation. Each new visit of the site triggers part of the diary to be rewritten dynamically. Quarantinediary.ai depicts how the Networked Self is inevitably felt upon and reciprocated during this challenging moment. We have always shaped and will keep shaping each other's presence, consciously or otherwise. One can only feel cared for, when we all do.

Zhenzhen Qi is an artist, researcher and educator. She is a member of NEW INC, the art and technology incubator at New Museum, a technology resident at Pioneer Works, lecturer and doctoral candidate at Columbia University. Together with Yang Wang, she co-founded ZZYW, an art and research collective producing software application, installation, and text as instruments to examine the cultural, political and educational imprints of computation.

https://www.onassis.org/enter/quarantinediaryai-zhenzhen-qi

Laurel Schwulst, Sunshine Piece

Website

Sunshine is a natural disinfectant. Sunshine Piece is an ambient website that explores what sunlight feels like in the dark—presenting a set of written instructions that sometimes change depending on time of day.

Laurel Schwulst (born 1988 in Normal, IL, USA) is an artist, designer, and writer interested in ambiance and the internet. Last year, she released Flight Simulator, "an ode to airplane mode," a novel travel app for iOS and Android and also celebrated the launch of artistsspace.org, the website for the New York based institution Artists Space which presents its rich archive through multiple entrances. Previously, she was creative director of Kickstarter's The Creative Independent and designer at studio Linked by Air. She has taught courses at Yale, Princeton, Rutgers, and California College of the Arts.

https://www.onassis.org/el/enter/sunshine-piece-laurel-schwulst

Molly Soda, Reward

Interactive website

Reward is a non-linear, interactive web-based work that pulls from spam emails, predatory advertisements, and digital clutter. The structure of the game encourages users to move away from scrolling (up and down) and towards a more expansive approach, clicking and opening tabs and different pages, often from external websites which will continue to change as the game ages and may look different for each player. The promise of a reward, whether implied (social media) or stated (spam, advertisements) keeps us engaged.

Molly Soda is a visual artist working in video, installation, interactive art, performance and print media. Her work is often hosted online, specifically on social media platforms, allowing the work to evolve and interact with the platforms themselves. Soda engages with questions of revisiting one’s own virtual legacy, how we present ourselves and perform for imagined others online and how the ever shifting nature of our digital space affects our memories and self-concept.

https://www.onassis.org/enter/reward-molly-soda

New entries from June 22, 2020

Kristin Lucas, Eat me | NEW INC

generative animation WebXR

Ari Melenciano, Electrocology of Sound Travel | NEW INC

WebVR

Zhenzhen Qi, Quarantinediary.ai | NEW INC

Custom software

Laurel Schwulst, Sunshine Piece | NEW INC

Website
Molly Soda, Reward | NEW INC

interactive website

Already available

Elias Adam, HAMLET, a desktop performance

Video | Duration: 34΄11´´

Eun-Me Ahn, Body & Seoul

Video | Duration: 15΄34΄΄

Katerina Andreou Feat.JULIE

Video | Duration: 16’

Ziad Antar, The Little Boat [Il Était un...]

Video | Duration: 3΄

Maria Antelman, AntiBody

Video | Duration: 1´12´´

Kimberly Bartosik, The Game

Video | Duration: 5´19´´

Eric Baudelaire, The Glove

Video | Duration: 8’

Madeline Best & Brian Rogers, 4 Fixations | The Chocolate Factory Theater

Video / audio: 9΄35΄΄

Tei Blow, Essay in Idleness | The Chocolate Factory Theater

Video | Duration: 8’

Maria Diakopanagiotou, perspective

Video | Duration: 17΄46’’

Annie Dorsen, Training Text, Step 2250

Video | Duration: 6´16´´

Dynasty Handbag, Untitled Emergency | The Chocolate Factory Theater

Video| Duration: 2΄21΄΄

600 HIGHWAYMEN, Fighting World

Video | Duration: 10´57´´

ITCHY-O, Milk Moon Rite

Video | Duration: 13΄35’’

Tim Etchells - Jim Fletcher - Chris Thorpe, We are the King of Ventilators

Video | Duration: 9’

Alexis Fidetzis, Kostis Stafylakis, Theo Triantafyllidis, Notes to Readiness: Step 1

Role-play Game, Video in live-streaming on YouTube

Efthimis Filippou, Video 2: Body Parts, Fabrics and Sports

Video | Duration: 15΄37΄΄

Andonis Foniadakis, st Dominique bd Arago

Video | Duration: 4΄01΄΄

keyon gaskin, How to Get Away With Westworld | The Chocolate Factory Theater

Video| Duration: 2΄43΄΄

Kathryn Hamilton (Sister Sylvester), Every Hologenome For Themselves

Video | Duration: 8΄49΄΄

Emily Johnson, inbetween Kwimiak, blue

Video | Duration: 22΄47΄΄

Simos Kakalas, Tarantino

Video Series |1st | Duration: 3΄04΄΄

Simos Kakalas, Destination Acropolis

Video Series | 2nd| Duration: 3’55’’

Evi Kalogiropoulou, Tiles

Video | Duration: 10´28´´

Kareem Kalokoh, Swim

Video | Duration: 3΄30΄΄

Dimitris Karantzas, Houseplants

Video | Duration: 4΄03´´

Vasilis Kekatos, As you sleep the world empties

Video | Duration: 12΄33΄΄

Lena Kitsopoulou, Lalka

Video | Duration: 13´21´´

Xin Liu, Sleepwalk | Queens Museum

Videogame

Ethan Lipton & his Orchestra, Sleep Train

song | Duration: 6΄30’’

Ioannis Mandafounis, Can I take you to the bridge beyond the scene

Video | Duration: 7΄35΄΄

Maria Papadimitriou, Alter Ego

Video | Duration: 2´41´´

Annie-B Parson, 6΄ | The Chocolate Factory Theater

Re-purposed video of live performance | Duration: 3΄10΄΄

Risa Puno & Avi Dobkin, The Quiet: Part 1

Game

QUEENSBOUND 2020 (Nadia Q. Ahmad, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Pichchenda Bao, Nana Brew-Hammond, Jared Harel, Abeer Y. Hoque, Joseph O. Legaspi, Robert Ostrom, KC Trommer), In the Here and Now | Queens Museum

Video | Duration: 4´46´´

Radiohole, Happy Hours

Video | Duration: 10´29´´

Isabella Rossellini & Paul Magid, Darwin, What?

Video | Duration: 8´22´´

RootlessRoot, Untitled, Part 1

Video Series | 1st video duration: 2΄56΄΄

RootlessRoot, Take your Time

Video series | 2nd video duration: 2’46’’

RootlessRoot, Our Feet

Video series | 3rd video duration: 1´27´´

Samita Sinha, Into the day | Queens Museum

Video | Duration: 3´00´´

Frisly Soberanis, Forces of a City #1 | Queens Museum

Video | Duration: 3´43´´

Akira Takayama, Heterotopia Garden

Instructions on how to make your own “garden” at home

Alina Tenser & Gabo Camnitzer, A Compass for the House Door | Queens Museum

Video | Duration: 11´06´´

Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Untitled (Junkopia Redux)

Video | Duration: 4΄17΄΄

Daniel Wetzel (Rimini Protokoll), Safety Cards 2.0

Video | Duration:12’37’’

Yorgos Zois, Touch me

Video | Duration: 8’30’’

For more information, visit: onassis.org/enter