The Tribeca Festival, Onassis ONX, and AGOG present “Tribeca Immersive: In Search of Us”

AI & Me: The Confessional and AI Ego, by mots (Daniela Nedovescu and Octavian Mot)

(Germany) - U.S. Premiere

Part of the AI & Me series, The Confessional and AI Ego dive into the provocative dynamics between humans and artificial intelligence. Sit down and see what AI thinks of you—funny, raw, and completely unapologetic.

Boreal Dreams, by Jakob Kudsk Steensen

(Denmark, United Kingdom, Belgium, United States) - North American Premiere

In this dynamic simulation, Boreal Dreams delves into the relationship between climate and consciousness, exploring how environmental shifts impact how we dream, think, and sleep. Traverse the Boreal zone in a fully realized virtual world based on fieldwork, data collection, and real time technology.

A Father’s Lullaby & Lullabies Through Time, by Rashin Fahandej

(United States) - New York Premiere. / Lullabies Through Time (United States) - World Premiere

A Father’s Lullaby is a poetic, community-based interactive installation centering on formerly incarcerated fathers as a locus for collective memory, care, and transformative change. The accompanying AR, Lullabies Through Time, is a site-responsive experience designed to bridge past, present, and future – tracing the enduring legacies of racialized systems of control and confinement, in order to reclaim public spaces as sites of healing, reconnection, and future-building.

The Founders Pillars & The Power Loom, by Lesiba Mabitsela, Meghna Singh, and Simon Wood

The Power Loom (South Africa) - World Premiere. / The Founder Pillars (South Africa) - New York Premiere

The Founders Pillars is a two-part installation: The Power Loom, a multimedia installation that digitally weaves African textiles, and a site-specific Augmented Reality (AR) experience that uses those very patterns and visualizations to transform the columns of the New York Stock Exchange into a memorial to enslaved peoples.

Fragile Home, by Ondřej Moravec and Victoria Lopukhina

(Czech Republic) - North American Premiere

Fragile Home is a mixed reality experience that transforms its surroundings into a Ukrainian home, populating the virtual domestic space with objects, voices, and melodies that tell a story of displacement, memory, and resilience.

In the Current of Being, by Cameron Kostopoulos

(United States, France) - New York Premiere

In the Current of Being is a haptic VR experience that shares the true story of Carolyn Mercer, a survivor of electroshock conversion therapy. Physically connect with Carolyn’s story through wearable haptic vests, sleeves and gloves that will allow the participant to share her experience through the profound sensation of touch.

The Innocence of Unknowing, by Ryat Yezbick and Milo Talwani

(United States) - World Premiere

The Innocence of Unknowing is an AI archival project, two-channel essay film, and live performance examining news media coverage of mass shootings in the U.S. since the 1960s. By studying footage of retreat over time, the work investigates the impact of public violence on contemporary culture, using AI as a collaborator.

New Maqam City, by MIPSTERZ

(United States) - New York Premiere

New Maqam City invites you to remix, manipulate, and vibe to music from across North Africa and the Middle East. Incorporating everything from Gnawa beats to synthpop, Macrou, and 808 drum patterns, this interactive installation catalyzes a transcendental state inspired by Sufi mysticism and communion through music.

Scent, by Alan Kwan

(United States) - World Premiere

Scent is a cinematic interactive experience in which, as a dog, the player roams a war-torn city, witnesses mass atrocities and carries out one quiet task—guiding human souls toward reincarnation.

There Goes Nikki, by Idris Brewster, Michele Stephenson and Joe Brewster

(United States) - World Premiere

There Goes Nikki is an AR ode to the late poet Nikki Giovanni in which Giovanni recites her poem “Quilting the Black-eyed Pea (We’re going to Mars)”. Set against a cosmic backdrop and guided by her voice, the experience leads viewers on a journey through black memory, imagination, and liberation. Poetry becomes a portal to the universe Giovanni imagined for herself, and for all of us.

Uncharted, by Kidus Hailesilassie

(United States, Ghana, Ethiopia) - World Premiere

Enter Uncharted, an immersive cosmic choreography where the body becomes a vessel for ancestral storytelling. Mapping 6,500 characters from African and diasporic writing systems, the piece fuses AI Data sculpture with one of the world’s oldest technologies - the human body. Through dance, this language archive comes alive in a new form of pan-African storytelling.

The Tribeca Festival, presented by OKX, brings artists and diverse audiences together to celebrate storytelling in all its forms, including film, TV, music, audio storytelling, games, and immersive. With strong roots in independent film, Tribeca is synonymous with creative expression and entertainment. Tribeca champions emerging and established voices, discovers award-winning talent, curates innovative experiences, and introduces new ideas through exclusive premieres, exhibitions, conversations, and live performances.

The Festival was founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff in 2001 to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of lower Manhattan following the attacks on the World Trade Center. The annual Tribeca Festival will celebrate its 24th year from June 4–15, 2025 in New York City.

In 2019, James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems bought a majority stake in Tribeca Enterprises, bringing together Rosenthal, De Niro, and Murdoch to grow the enterprise.

The 2025 Tribeca Festival is presented by OKX and with the support of our partners: AT&T, Audible, Bulleit Frontier Whiskey, Canva, CHANEL, City National Bank, DIRECTV, Don Julio Tequila, Fiji Water, Indeed, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, NBC4 and Telemundo 47, NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, National CineMedia, New York Magazine, Spring Studios New York, The Wall Street Journal, Variety, Vulture, and Whalar.

Onassis ONX is a global platform by Onassis Culture dedicated to the development of new media art and digital experiences. It empowers creators to craft digital worlds and immersive experiences of exceptional artistic quality, utilizing cutting-edge technologies while ensuring financial sustainability. With flagship locations in both New York and Athens, Onassis ONX offers artists capacity-building activities, incubation and acceleration services, seed funding, and more. As a field-building platform in the global new media art landscape, Onassis ONX collaborates with industry leaders, institutions, and international networks to foster the growth of XR/VR, AI, Spatial Computing, and Digital Art. To learn more, visit Onassis ONX | Onassis Foundation

Agog: The Immersive Media Institute is a philanthropic organization founded by Chip Giller and Wendy Schmidt that helps people use extended reality (XR) to create human connection, cultivate empathy, and inspire action toward a more just and sustainable future. Agog brings together nonprofit leaders, thinkers, and creators to harness the power of emerging media like virtual and augmented reality to develop new ways to communicate, learn, inspire, and collaborate. Agog’s initial areas of focus include social justice and equity; high-impact storytelling and world-building; policy and ethics; education and outreach; and research. To learn more, visit agog.org.

Water Street Projects is a roving interdisciplinary nonprofit platform amplifying creative voices. Our projects include performance art, fairs, festivals, music shows, culinary experiences, and visual arts which champion diversity and global points of view. WSA is a cultural ecosystem and hub of artists, producers, and creative businesses. Housed in an iconic Fox and Fowle 1980s skyscraper, WSA interweaves working, production, wellness, and social spaces. WSA takes an artist-first approach, and provides a new anchor and catalyst for cultural life within Lower Manhattan. The WSA ethos is indebted to entrepreneur Mark Wadhwa, whose cultural venue 180 Strand in London serves as a model.