DiMoDA 4.0: Dis/Location  @ ONX

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ONX presents DiMoDA 4.0:  A VR art exhibit that explores Dis/Location through 3 unique projects.

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<h2>DiMoDA 4.0: Dis/Location Opening Reception</h2><h3><strong>DiMoDA 4.0: Dis/Location</strong></h3><h3><strong>Exhibition Opening and Tour</strong></h3><h3><strong>Thursday, September 21, 6-8PM</strong></h3><h3></h3><h3></h3><h2>DiMoDA 4.0: Dis/Location Public Hours</h2><h3><strong>September 22-24, 28-30, 12-6PM</strong></h3><h3></h3><h3><strong>Participants: Alfredo Salazar-Caro, Christiane Paul, Ayman Tawfeeq, Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga</strong></h3><h3>Join us for the opening of DiMoDA 4.0, a VR museum created by Alfredo Salazar-Caro and William Robertson, dedicated to commissioning and exhibiting cutting edge VR artworks. The 4th edition of DiMoDA, curated by Christiane Paul with architecture by Ayman Tawfeeq, comprises three artworks — by artists Banz &amp; Bowinkel, Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, and Tamiko Thiel — addressing the theme of Dis/Location, the feeling of displacement from or disturbance of a proper, original, or usual place. </h3><h3>The event will include a brief tour of the environment led by Alfredo Salazar-Caro, Christiane Paul, Ayman Tawfeeq, Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga.</h3><h3></h3><h3><strong>About  DiMoDA 4.0: Dis/Location</strong></h3><h3>ONX presents the 4th edition of DiMoDA, conceived in 2013 by Alfredo Salazar-Caro and William Robertson as a pioneering virtual institution, dedicated to commissioning and exhibiting cutting edge VR artworks. DiMoDA 4.0, curated by Christiane Paul, comprises three artworks — by artists Banz &amp; Bowinkel, Ricardo Miranda Zuniga, and Tamiko Thiel — addressing the theme of Dis/Location, the feeling of displacement from or disturbance of a proper, original, or usual place that has become a defining experience of our time. The projects explore issues from gentrification and evolution to perceptions of space afforded by technologies. Users explore displacement from neighborhoods; the shifts occurring in the evolution of the earth from its creation to the Anthropocene; as well as our communication with the binary operations of computers.</h3><h3></h3><h3><strong>About the curator:</strong></h3><h3><strong>Christiane Paul </strong>is Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Professor Emerita, School of Media Studies, The New School. At the Whitney Museum she curated exhibitions including Refigured (2023), Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art 1965 - 2018 (2018/19),  Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools (2011) and Profiling (2007), and is responsible for artport, the museum’s portal to Internet art. Other curatorial work includes Chain Reaction (feralfile.com, 2023), DiMoDA 4.0 Dis/Location (traveling show, 2021- ), The Question of Intelligence (Kellen Gallery, The New School, NYC, 2020), and What Lies Beneath (Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, 2015). She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation's 2016 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, and her books Digital Art (Thames and Hudson, 2003, 2008, 2015, 2023); are A Companion to Digital Art (Blackwell-Wiley, May 2016); Context Providers – Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts(Intellect, 2011; Chinese edition, 2012); and New Media in the White Cube and Beyond (UC Press, 2008). </h3><h3></h3><h3><strong>About the architectural designer:</strong></h3><h3><strong>Ayman Tawfeeq</strong> is an architectural designer at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates focused on developing complex master plans internationally in south East Asia and China. Ayman designs with a sensible, contextual and socially driven approach. He communicates ideas and architecture strategies through technology including animation, illustration, and virtual reality experiences. He collaborated with DiMoDA to create a VR museum which investigates social issues around immigration and dislocation, while also reflecting on his own displacement story as an immigrant moving from Iraq to USA during the war. Ayman graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture degree and received a Design Excellence Award from Pennsylvania State University. He is the first place winner of the Piranese Prix De Rome 2014 and second place winner of the Rifat Chadirji Prize 2020.</h3><h3></h3><h3><strong>About the artists:</strong></h3><h3><strong>Giulia Bowinkel &amp; Friedemann Banz</strong> generate scenarios of the juxtaposition of nature, texture, body and space, mass, form and substance. The artist duo generates reflective moments that shift between moving images, virtual sculptures and snapshots. Technological tools that have become an integral part of contemporary society serve as source and material – the computer becomes a tool and the interactions with it the subject of their work. The human being free in his choice and with his computer technological possibilities (as a subject and as an avatar) form again and again a reference point when generating forms in the visual (re)-construction of diversity and the digital image of what presents itself as {real}.</h3><h3></h3><h3><strong>​​Tamiko Thiel </strong>received the 2018 SAT Montreal Visionary Pioneer Award for (now) over 35 years of media artworks exploring place, space, the body and cultural identity in political and socially critical artworks. Her visual design of Danny Hillis' Connection Machine CM1/CM2 (1986/1987) expressed the inner mysteries of this first AI supercomputer, now in the collection of MoMA NY. Her VR artwork Beyond Manzanar (2000, with Zara Houshmand) immersed users in the experiences of Japanese Americans and Iranian Americans as "the face of the enemy," and was acquired by the San Jose Museum of Art in 2002. Her AR work Unexpected Growth (2018, with /p) planted a virtual plastic garbage coral reef on the 6th floor terrace of the Whitney Museum of American Art and is in the museum's collection, and her AR installation ReWildAR (2021, with /p) creates a wildflower meadow complete with symbiotic pollinating insects for the Smithsonian Institution’s 175th anniversary.</h3><h3></h3><h3><strong>Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga</strong> approaches art as a social practice that seeks to establish dialogue in public spaces. Having been born of immigrant parents and grown up between Nicaragua and San Francisco, an awareness of inequality and discrimination was established at an early age. The ways that inequality and power manifest themselves in our lives are consistent threads in Ricardo's work. Themes such as immigration, discrimination, gentrification and the effects of monetization extend from highly subjective experiences and observations into works that tactically engage others through popular metaphors while maintaining critical perspectives.</h3><h3></h3><h3><strong>_﻿_________________________________________________________________________</strong></h3><h3><strong>About ONX Studio:</strong></h3><h3>ONX Studio is a hybrid production and exhibition space with a global community of members who create interactive and immersive XR works. Located in the Onassis Gallery in Midtown Manhattan, it was founded in partnership by the Onassis Foundation and New Museum’s NEW INC.</h3>

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