With All Due Respect: Onassis ONX Summer Showcase
Showcase Dates: June 7 - 8, 2025
Opening Hours: 1-7 PM
Location: Onassis ONX, 645 5th Avenue, Lower Level
Featured Artists: Graham Sack ⚬ Matt McCorkle ⚬ Michaela Ternasky-Holland ⚬ Peter Burr
Opening Reception Performance by Viola He
With All Due Respect, our annual Onassis ONX Summer Showcase, brings together four artworks, including a special performance, by ONX members that especially question our relationship to AI and technology. Using multi-channel video projections, spatial sound, trained LLMs, and EEG readers, each of these developing works pose alternative uses for technology for interaction and storytelling:
The Maintenance Game by Peter Burr
A self-sustaining simulation populated by digital entities navigating a decaying architectural maze. Each character enacts a behavioral logic: repairing failing systems, preserving obsolete protocols, maintaining illusions of order. The structure does not collapse, but it never heals. This is maintenance as ritual, bureaucracy as fate.
Neuro-Cinema: From Synapse to Montage by Graham Sack
An immersive, multi-channel video installation that combines excerpts from the speculative film NeuroPlastic (2025) with EEG-controlled interactivity. Audience members influence the live edit sequence and control a robotic prosthetic arm via real-time brainwave activity, engaging directly with the ethical and experiential implications of brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies.
ORIGIN by Matt McCorkle
In a climate-ravaged future, humanity uploads its consciousness into The Red Orb, a digital sanctuary. Guiding and protecting this haven is Origin—a liminal being able to traverse digital and physical realms, mend corrupted code, and shape matter. Discover what endures when humanity’s legacy is entrusted to an evolving intelligence.
The Gr(ai)t Debate by Michaela Ternasky-Holland in collaboration with Mikel Glass
A live performance experience where AI-generated political candidates debate in real time about questions presented by audience members. The physical art in the experience created by Mikel Glass is inspired by a government building façade constructed from tech hardware, suggesting how digital systems increasingly mediate our civic participation.
Here and Where You Are by Viola He
An audio-visual experience that thrusts viewers into a circular digital metropolis that transforms from a dreamlike childhood TV room into pulsing industrial techno landscapes. Through pixelated walls of light, abstracted human silhouettes navigate urban currents while rushing toward connection. In the circular digital cityscape, many stories, sounds, and sights run parallel yet blend into one - and in those chaotic landscapes we search for someone who matters.
See the Onassis ONX website and Instagram for more information.
About Onassis ONX:
Onassis ONX is an Onassis Culture platform dedicated to new media art and digital experiences. It empowers creators with cutting-edge technologies, artistic excellence, and financial sustainability. The program offers capacity-building, incubation, seed funding, and showcase opportunities for artists worldwide. Founded in 2020 as ONX Studio, Onassis ONX is a field-building platform with strategic partnerships in the international new media art.
