ONX Futures: AI & Mixed Reality in Moving Image

This year’s theme, which inaugurates the ONX Futures program, focuses on Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Realities through the lens of Virtual Production.

Through a three-month intensive skills development program, it invites directors, filmmakers, producers, advertisers, photographers and videographers, visual effects artists, and musicians to rethink the grammar of the moving image and reexamine the ethical and legal questions that arise in the age of algorithms and AI-assisted co-creation.

Talks, open discussions, and masterclasses with international speakers and collaborators make up a program that explores the many ways new technologies are transforming contemporary storytelling and the production process of audiovisual works, from script development and writing to post-production and distribution. Among the speakers are acclaimed artists and professionals such as Cyril Foiter of Maison Meta, Athens Surreal (Tina Marinaki), Navid Khonsar, Aaron Santiago, Matthew Rader, Andrea Gatopoulos, Yolanda Markopoulou, Sam Pressman, and Michaela Ternasky-Holland.

At the same time, the program opens up a discussion around the ethical issues that arise in the age of co-creation with artificial intelligence tools and guides creators as well as production companies through legal matters to ensure the proper use of new media. Participants include the World Intellectual Property Organization and guest speakers from the field.

ONX Futures invites production companies, professionals, creators in the audiovisual field, and digital agencies to explore all the elements that make up a film, a commercial clip, a reel, or any audiovisual work.

Selected projects developed within the program will receive seed funding to advance the creation of a prototype work.

An intensive in-person bootcamp and online masterclasses are structured around three thematic modules: Generative AI in Moving Image, Virtual and XR Production, and Intellectual Property Rights Management Strategies.

ONX Futures 2025 is implemented in collaboration with the Onassis Stegi Cinema team.

The program begins with an intensive three-day introductory session from November 21 to 23 at the new Onassis ONX space, Onassis Ready. Its goal is to present new digital tools and their limits, but also delve into creative practices and explore ways to protect human creativity and knowledge where Artificial Intelligence prevails.

ONX Futures is aimed at companies and professionals in the audiovisual field who wish to integrate new technologies into their production process and develop competitive, innovative projects. It is implemented within the framework of the Smart Attica European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH).

Participation is individual and/or corporate and free of charge (funded by the European Union), with pre-registration and submission of the required documents.

Read more in the Program’s Terms and Conditions.

Participants may join the program at any stage.

Participants may also register for one or more modules and attend as many masterclasses as they wish. Participation in the full program is optional.

Onassis ONX is the Onassis Foundation’s global platform dedicated to elevating innovative creators in the development, presentation, and distribution of new media artworks and immersive experiences. It provides artists and teams with capacity-building programs, incubation and applied research initiatives, acceleration services, seed funding, exhibition opportunities, fellowships, and partnership-driven collaborations through its hubs in Athens and New York City. This holistic engagement throughout the creative process enables artists to build worlds at the frontiers of AI, immersive, spatial computing, gaming, and other emergent time-based media. Onassis ONX provides a stage for creatives to imagine new futures by questioning the systems through which culture is produced, circulated, and remembered, actively fostering new forms of creative expression to meaningfully engage with audiences around the world.

ONX Futures is implemented within the framework of the Smart Attica European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH), co-funded by the European Union.

With a focus on the digital upgrade of SMEs and public organizations, Smart Attica EDIH, as the first European digital innovation hub for Artificial Intelligence in Greece, aims to enhance their digital maturity and facilitate the adoption of innovative digital services. As a partner of the Hub, the Onassis Foundation seeks through its initiatives to promote the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and organizations in the creative and cultural industries, providing access to new technologies, opportunities to network with experts, and solutions that can elevate their work.