Onassis ONX and Onassis AiR invite art lovers to a four-day series of events, talks and meetings with creators, producers and companies in order to explore the relationships between humans and machines, to question their limits and to search for the familiar and the unfamiliar within them.

Through presentations of works -complete or in development-, discussions with participating artists, performances and masterclasses with invited international speakers, we trigger questions about post-digital art, i.e. art as it is shaped in an era where the digital is taken for granted, as an artificial nature that defies any distinction between the human and the non-human. The four-day event begins on Thursday, December 12, with the exhibition “Radical Intimacy,” as part of the European Media Art Platform (EMAP) residency program, showcasing works that explore the body―planetary, human, and nonhuman―emerging forms of labor, urban touristification, interspecies communication, and the limits of artificial intelligence.
“Radical Intimacy” shines a spotlight on not just the digital artist but also the producers, technologies, and teams that make these projects a reality—raising critical questions about cost, sustainability, and the future of such endeavors. The exhibition brings together emerging new media artists from across Europe to explore the concept of radical intimacy in the post-digital world. Featured works include: “My Want of You Partakes of Me” by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner, a visceral journey through space and the body, reframing them as entities rather than exploitable resources; “How to Make an Ocean” by Kasia Molga, a meditation on climate change and the life-giving potential of tears; “V-Real” by SOAP, an extended reality (XR) dive into the commodified intimacy of our homes and the Airbnb ‘oceans’; “Meditative Cohabitation” by Studio Above&Below and Yau Fan, an audiovisual exploration of interspecies communication; “Hardly Working” by Total Refusal, a celebration of the silent background characters in video games; “Cascade” by Marc Vilanova, a sound-and-light installation that challenges perceptions of time and space; and “Tripods One” by Moritz Simon Geist, a live techno-robotic performance where each sound is produced by robotic musical instruments, exploring the relationship between human creativity and mechanical precision. The exhibition also showcases projects developed as part of the Onassis ONX Immersive Proof-of-Concept (PoC). Teams of creators, developers, and producers experimented with cutting-edge technologies to craft immersive worlds and storytelling techniques. Participants include ESTO Association with “Side Hustle”; Artemis Sartzetakis and Babak Ahteshamipour with “Fruits of the Web”; Stratos Bichakis with “A Sense of Time”; and Collective Continuum with “SolastalgiaXR.” These projects explore different aspects of radical intimacy, from the online body and digital labor to the expressive limits of light or the environmental grief in the face of extreme weather conditions such as floods.The exhibition is realized in the framework of the European Media Art Platform (EMAP) residency program, co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union.The Onassis ONX Immersive Proof-of-Concept projects, talks, and masterclasses are implemented in the framework of the Smart Attica European Digital Innovation Hub actions, co-funded by the European Union.

During the exhibition, ONX/AiR Open Days also hosts a series of talks and masterclasses tailored to professionals and businesses active in the creative and cultural industries. From Friday to Sunday, digital pioneers and leaders in immersive technologies will share insights on the intersection of art, technology, and innovation, the latest trends in the field of Arts x Advanced Technologies, as well as business models for developing, producing and distributing interdisciplinary immersive experiences physically and online. Participants will have the opportunity to work alongside Michael Mondria (Ars Electronica Solutions), Julie Tremblay and Coline Delbaere (PHI Studio), Arnaud Colinart (Altas V), Theo Triantafyllidis, and Steve Vranakis, among others.