Onassis ONX

Since 2020, members of Onassis ONX have showcased their work at major festivals worldwide, including SXSW, Sundance, Ars Electronica, Cannes, Performa, IDFA, and the Venice International Film Festival.

Digital art and technology from New York to Athens. After five years of partnership with our New York studio, Onassis ONX opens its doors in Athens, at the Onassis Ready building. ONX aims to establish itself as a destination where one can encounter what is to come as well as what is already here. ONX is a dynamic, open space for gathering and experimentation for artists, makers, technologists, creative entrepreneurs, researchers, and collectives working at the intersection of art and innovation.

Your journey into the art of tomorrow begins in the heart of Athens and reaches all the way to New York. Onassis ONX presents works from the ONX Seeds and Onassis AiR Fellows in a showcase at the Onassis Ready building. Through various modes of storytelling and immersive experiences, the exhibition focuses on themes of identity, desire, interaction, and transformation.

In May 2026, Onassis Ready hosts the ONX Showcase, a celebration of creativity, technological innovation, and new forms of artistic expression. The ONX Showcase marks the launch of Onassis ONX in Greece, presenting a four-day program of selected works and events from ONX’s residency, acceleration, and artist development initiatives in Athens and New York. Through the Onassis AiR residency, the ONX Seeds program, the ONX Futures skill-building initiative (which focuses on artificial intelligence and audiovisual production), and the creative community in New York, Onassis Ready becomes a space for vibrant dialogue between artistic practice and technological research.

What is the future of cinematic storytelling? ONX Futures is a hybrid three-month development program designed to empower the creative community by enhancing participants’ skills in emerging technologies.

This year’s theme, which also launches the ONX Futures program, is focused on Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Realities, inviting participants to reconsider the ‘grammar’ of the moving image in a new era of storytelling. An intensive in-person bootcamp and online masterclasses lead to mentorship across three modules: Generative AI in Moving Image, Virtual and XR Production, and Intellectual Property Rights Management. The program is designed for audio visual professionals and production companies. Selected projects developed during the program will receive initial funding to support the creation of a prototype or early-stage work.

The program is part of the Smart Attica EDIH initiative and is co-funded by the European Union.

Can a story change the world around us? ONX Seeds is a six-month artistic development program focused on the creation of early-stage works (Proof of Concept) at the intersection of art and technology.

Emerging creators, recent graduates, teams, and artistic communities will experiment with concepts of innovation and worldbuilding. By constructing imagined worlds, participants move beyond material objects to craft immersive experiences that extend around and beyond them.

Projects selected through an Open Call process receive support, personalized mentorship, and access to an international network of professionals. These pieces will be presented at the ONX Showcase in Athens in May 2026.

Summer School: Innovation, Tech, & Culture returns for a third consecutive year, aiming to bridge the worlds of culture and digital arts with technology, artificial intelligence, and entrepreneurship.

Summer School: Innovation, Tech, & Culture is an intensive, two-week studio/lab-style program designed for professionals, focusing on skill development at the intersection of art, technology, and creative entrepreneurship. Co-organized by Onassis ONX, ACEin of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), and NYU Tandon School of Engineering, the program features talks by leading experts in its three core areas and invites participants to develop creative ideas and projects that lie at the crossroads of art and commercial products, combining high aesthetic value, functionality, and entrepreneurial maturity.

A new artistic season. New opportunities for the international creative community. A new space in the heart of New York City. The Onassis Foundation’s global platform for new media and digital culture, Onassis ONX, moves even closer to its vision of progressive creation through programs and initiatives across America, Europe, and Asia.

As a dynamic platform shaping art and advanced technologies, Onassis ONX collaborates with a global network of artists and partners to produce, present, and distribute pioneering works. In New York, Onassis ONX is moving into a new, state-of-the-art production space downtown, set to relaunch in Fall 2025 with an equally bold program. In November 2025, Onassis ONX will co-produce artist Ayoung Kim’s first live performance in the Performa Biennale. In January 2026, the second edition of TECHNE will inaugurate the new studio in New York with a series of dynamic large-scale artworks that bridge the gap between installation and performance through AI, interactivity and live simulations. At the same time, Onassis ONX returns to the Under the Radar Festival with a lineup of immersive performances, including Graham Sack’s Neuro-Theater Experience "sol_AI_rs", developed with the support of Johns Hopkins University.

Beyond New York, Onassis ONX is supporting the distribution of Theo Triantafyllidis’ video-game installation "Feral Metaverse". First exhibited in "Group Hug", curated by Onassis ONX in New York in Fall 2024, the work will now tour the world, beginning in Poland in October 2025. The platform’s commitment to festivals continues with two projects from the Venice Film Festival, both by members of the Onassis ONX Studio in New York: Sarah Silverblatt -Buser’s "Collective Body" and Sister Sylvester & Nadah El Shazly’s "Constantinopoliad". These works will travel to the Lincoln Center and National Sawdust respectively, before touring internationally.

An outward field-building platform

Onassis ONX actively participates in the global new media art landscape by forming solid institutional partnerships, collaborating with industry leaders, and engaging in production and distribution networks worldwide. Onassis ONX partners with organizations such as NEW INC, Rhizome, Pioneer Works, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and Games 4 Change in New York and with IDFA, CPH:DOX, DiMoDA, and PHI Centre globally.

Extending the future

Onassis ONX, previously known as ONX Studio, began as an artistic accelerator and hybrid production/exhibition space in Midtown Manhattan, jointly founded in 2020 by the Onassis Foundation and New Museum’s NEW INC. Today, it has evolved into a comprehensive global new media art program supporting creators through all the stages of their work, from development to distribution, standing out in the international artistic ecosystem as a prominent hub. With physical locations in Athens (artistic incubator) and New York (artistic accelerator), Onassis ONX bridges these two dynamic cities and fosters and expands local and international new media art scenes.

West to East, South to North

Onassis ONX fellows can be found from New York to Athens, from Los Angeles to Austin, Louisville, and Pittsburgh, and from London to Istanbul and Lisbon. They have developed and presented works around the world by participating in renowned festivals and exhibitions, including South by Southwest, Venice International Film Festival, Ars Electronica Festival, Plásmata exhibitions in Athens and Ioannina, Tribeca Festival, Mutek, and BAM’s Next Wave Festival.