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Electromagnetic fields become an audible performance system. Audience members hold hand-built emitting sculptures while movement artists wearing receiver pods translate proximity, interference, and contact into sound, turning the room into a composition shaped collectively by bodies and invisible forces.Learn more → EVENTField Body Sep 10SUPR OMEN Abandoned theaters acquire digital afterlives, ice becomes language, and sculptures repeatedly translate themselves into code. Across seven works, technology appears not as a neutral tool but as a material force that preserves, distorts, and reanimates the worlds it encounters.Learn more → EXHIBITIONWhat Remains Sep 25 – Oct 4Onassis ONX The website is treated as an exhibition space, cultural artifact, and preservation problem, not merely a container for information. The project traces how artists have used the browser itself as a medium while asking what it means to keep networked art publicly accessible.Learn more → EXHIBITIONWebsites Websites Websites! Sep 21–2739 Great Jones A planetary-scale video game unfolds across nine landscapes generated from three-dimensional geospatial models of Earth. Simulation becomes both medium and subject: a way to examine how ecological systems are modeled, abstracted, inhabited, and played.Learn more → ARTIFACTEarth Engine PlayableAlice Bucknell An evolving speculative ecosystem stages organic life and synthetic infrastructure as inseparable. Game engines, custom hardware, scent, sculpture, and live performance operate together, not as effects, but as active systems through which bodies and environments are continuously reconfigured.Learn more → ARTIFACTPassage OngoingKevin Peter He An experimental live cinema performance places improvised game-engine cinematography alongside electronic music. Rather than screening a fixed world, the artists perform its camera, atmosphere, and emotional turbulence in real time.Learn more → EVENTFlux Date TBCKevin Peter He + Jake Oleson Frost Fest at Knockdown Center Frost Children take over the full warehouse for a day-into-night, indoor-outdoor hyperpop blowout, with The Femcels, The Deep, Thrilliam Angels, and a hand-picked lineup of underground pop from across the globe.Learn more → EVENTFrost Fest Jul 25Knockdown Center OFFICE HOURS at the Queer Nightlife Community Center OFFICE HOURS throws a summer cookout at the Queer Nightlife Community Center, a “Big Business Queenout” staged as a corporate retreat, with Cotton, Niyah West, and Doula. The city’s first queer nightlife community center, doing exactly what it says.Learn more → EVENTOFFICE HOURS BBQ Date TBCQNCC LAN Party Summer School A month of webinars on video game art, taught by the people making it: history, modding, custom hardware, ecology, performance. Alice Bucknell, Chia Amisola, Janne Schimmel and more, run with Gray Area and Metalabel. Tickets on Metalabel.Learn more → PROGRAMLAN Party Summer School Jul 10–31Online Gabriel Orozco, Public Nature Ten photographs of city life bolted into bus shelters across New York, Chicago, and Boston. No ticket, no lobby. The show happens while you wait for the M15, to an audience that did not plan on seeing art that day.Learn more → EXHIBITIONGabriel Orozco: Public Nature Jul 8 – Sep 6Five boroughs SUBMERGE: Beyond the Render at ARTECHOUSE Work by digital artists, rendered on a borrowed network of strangers’ graphics cards and thrown across the largest edge-to-edge projection any American museum runs. The old boiler room under Chelsea Market, put to work as a render farm you can stand inside.Learn more → EXHIBITIONSUBMERGE: Beyond the Render On viewARTECHOUSE Pioneer Works A studio in Red Hook and $2,500 for visual artists; a month in the recording room and $1,000 for musicians. Alumni get a shot at a new Onassis ONX fellowship, $5,000 and an engineer’s hands to build something in new media.Learn more → RESIDENCY2027 Visual Arts & Music Residency Due Jul 13Pioneer Works Short residencies for work that will not sit still in one medium: sound, performance, code, curation, objects. Deadlines come around quarterly, so a miss is only a quarter long.Learn more → RESIDENCYProduction & Exploration micro-Residencies Due Jul 31Rolling Harvestworks Built for the stubborn media: multichannel sound, interactive rigs, machine learning, AR and VR, ending in a public showing Harvestworks puts on. The kind of process that usually evaporates, which is exactly what the Index is for.Learn more → RESIDENCY2026 Artists-in-Residence OpenHarvestworks LACMA Art + Technology Lab Up to $50,000 over two years for artist fees and materials on work made with new technology. The terms rarely move between rounds, which makes the next call worth marking now.Learn more → GRANTArt + Technology Lab Grant Between roundsLACMA Eyebeam Six months and a $20,000 stipend, half the cohort pulled from outside New York. Set a reminder for next spring if your work needs a machine to run.Learn more → RESIDENCYEyebeam Residency 2026 call closedEyebeam