Matthew Niederhauser

Look mom, we’re in the New York Times! 👀 Check out this excellent article about TECHNE @ BAM. Frank Rose @artofimmersion hung out with us last week to talk about AI as a creative tool, bringing immersive art to legacy cultural institutions like BAM, and our mission as a platform for art and advanced technologies. Excerpts above, but check it out the full article online today or in print on Tuesday. 🗞️ 🎟️ There are still spots to see The Vivid Unknown today until 10pm! Tickets and full program at the link in our bio. Be sure to collect them all. 🗓️ January 4–19, 2025 ➡️ “The Vivid Unknown” (Jan 4, 5 & 7): An AI-driven immersive installation by John Fitzgerald @johnafitzgerald & Godfrey Reggio ➡️ “The Golden Key” (Jan 8–11): A perpetual mythmaking machine learning installation by Marc Da Costa @marconline2000 & Matthew Niederhauser @dearspaceship ➡️ “Voices” (Jan 12, 14 & 15): A cinematic installation where Victorian mediums meet tech and empowerment by Margarita Athanasiou @a__m__i__t__a ➡️ “Secret Garden” (Jan 16–19): An immersive Installation exploring black women’s stories of resilience by Stephanie Dinkins @stephanie.dinkins @dinkins.studio 📍 BAM Fisher, Fishman Space, 321 Ashland Pl, Brooklyn, NY Explore the future of art and technology through this immersive experience. Details & tickets at utrfest.org and bam.org found through the bio link. TECHNE is presented by BAM @bam_brooklyn , Onassis @onassis.stegi and Under the Radar @utrfest and curated by Onassis ONX @onassis.onx #InteractiveArt #TECHNEExperience #BAM #nextwave #onassisonx #UTR25 #UnderTheRadar #UTR

So honored to have won the 2024 SXSW XR Experience Jury Award and to be able to work with the infinitely talented @dearspaceship @sisiigodly 🥳✨🌈 About The Golden Key: Imagining a future world that has suffered the worst ravages of climate change, THE GOLDEN KEY invites participants to try to reconstruct a lost mythic past by responding to prompts at computer terminals on the exhibition floor. As the installation unfolds, an open-ended progression of narrative, sight and sound is generated while the work embarks on a process of recombinant storytelling, incorporating the audience’s words with an AI that has been trained on tens of thousands of folk tales from around the world, a dataset of narrative fragments that echo our most basic stories and concerns.

Tulpamancer will see its North American Premiere at SXSW this weekend after a successful World Premiere at the Venice Film Festival last summer! Created by Marc Da Costa and Matthew Niederhauser, the machine learning VR experience explores how the intersection of generative AI and VR can shape new ways of encountering ourselves. Sitting down at a computer terminal, participants first encounter the tulpa through a series of questions about their lives. They are then invited to meet in a world prepared uniquely for them in VR by the tulpa, embarking on a journey through a series of uniquely generated scenes that evoke and question the memories of their past and potential fates. These worlds are then deleted at the end, left only to resonate in the minds of each participant. Creators: Marc Da Costa & Matthew Niederhauser Technical Director: Aaron Santiago Technical Advisor: Elie Zananiri Installation Designer: Michelle Oliver Gutierrez Powered by Onassis ONX Presented by Deloitte #onassisonx #sxsw #onassisfoundation #artistsnyc #interdisciplinaryart #xr #xrart #newmedia #newmediaartists #immersiveart #experiential #experientialart #digitalart #interactiveart #machinelearningart #aiart #ai #machinelearning #neuralart #generativeart #sxsw2024

Parallels (Linz) from Onassis ONX members Marc Da Costa @marconline2000 and Matthew Niederhauser @dearspaceship can now be seen on the Hauptplatz in downtown Linz for Ars Electronica. 🌅 First commissioned through Onassis Stegi for Plásmata II, Parallels is a site-specific, responsive machine learning installation that transforms an LED wall into a portal for viewers to encounter the world and themselves through the lens of a neural network. Each moment, a camera behind the wall pulls an image of the ambient environment, which is then reinterpreted and presented on the screen through a set of visual styles reflecting the cultural and historical context of its environment. As an interactive sculpture, Parallels (Linz) seeks to embed emerging machine vision technologies directly within the landscape and built environment, questioning how new forms of artificial knowledge can be placed within a longue durée of human sense-making practices. The installation thus draws the sphere of machine vision into conversation with the surrounding architecture and the historical embeddedness of the viewer, providing an occasion to meditate on a moment when ways of seeing are being reconfigured. #arselectronica25 #onassisonx

🔑 The Golden Key opens tomorrow in Milan at the MEET Digital Culture Center! Created by Onassis ONX member Marc Da Costa and Onassis ONX Technical Director Matthew Niederhauser, the work brings audiences into contact with the mythological dreams of an AI as it writes and visualizes a never-ending story. 🌊 The installation imagines a future world that has suffered the worst ravages of climate change, while also inviting audiences to try to reconstruct a lost mythic past by responding to prompts at computer terminals on the exhibition floor. As the stories unfold, The Golden Key incorporates the audience’s words into motifs from tens of thousands of folk tales from around the world, a dataset of narrative fragments that echo our most basic stories and concerns. 📍 MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan Italy 🗓 June 19 - August 31, 2025 🎟️ See link in bio Find out more about The Golden Key at the MEET Digital Culture Center @meet.digitalculturecenter through the link in the bio. Created by Marc Da Costa @marconline2000 and Matthew Niederhauser @dearspaceship Technical Director by Aaron Santiago #MEET #MEETDigitalCultureCenter #TheGoldenKey #MarcDaCosta #MatthewNiederhauser #ArteDigitale #Myths #artificialintelligence

Last weekend to visit "Coded Dreams" at the Phi Center @phicentre which is presenting Tulpamancer and The Golden Key. Closes January 12th.

🔑 “The Golden Key” opens tonight at BAM Fisher! 🔑 Step into a mythical future shaped by AI in “The Golden Key” by Marc Da Costa and Matthew Niederhauser—an interactive installation that weaves ancient folklore with modern machine learning to create an ever-evolving story. Explore a time capsule from a world on the brink—where AI reimagines lost myths and audiences shape new ones. This visionary installation is part of TECHNE, a multi-part program blending generative AI with interactive visuals that push the boundaries of digital art. Be sure to explore all four works as they establish a space to experience wonder and introspection—challenging our understanding of humanity as it blurs with the very technologies we create. 🎟️Tickets via link in bio 🗓️ Wednesday, Jan 8 at 7PM & 8:30PM 🗓️ Thursday, Jan 9 at 7PM & 8:30PM 🗓️ Friday, Jan 10 at 7PM & 8:30P 🗓️ Saturday, Jan 11 at 2PM & 3:30PM & 7PM & 8:30PM 📍BAM Fisher TECHNE is curated by Onassis ONX @onassis.onx and presented in partnership with Under the Radar as part of BAM’s Next Wave. #TECHNEExperience #InteractiveArt #AIArt #GenerativeAI #MythMaking #NextWave #BAM #OnassisONX #UTR25 #undertheradarmichigan

🗝️ Enter the world of The Golden Key, a mesmerizing, AI-powered time capsule that invites you to reconstruct a lost mythological history. Your interactions shape the narrative, combining ancient folktales with cutting-edge technology to create an ever-evolving story. 🌿 Be part of TECHNE, where four unique installations challenge the boundaries of storytelling and digital art. Secure your tickets to explore this interactive machine learning installation where the work becomes a communal act of creation—celebrating the enduring power of myths to connect past, present, and future. 🗓️ Jan 8—11 📍BAM Fisher 🎟️Tickets via link in bio TECHNE is curated by Onassis ONX @onassis.onx and presented in partnership with Under the Radar @utrfest as part of BAM’s Next Wave. #AIArt #StorytellingRedefined #TECHNEatBAM #OnassisONX

Coded Dreams is open at the PHI Centre @phicentre in #Montreal until January 12, 2025! ✨🔮✨ This innovative #AI exhibition, from @Onassis.ONX members Marc Da Costa @marconline2000 and Matthew Niederhauser @dearspaceship , encourages audiences to explore the frontiers of artificial intelligence and unlock the doors of their imagination through two unique and captivating experiences: Tulpamancer and The Golden Key. Coded Dreams creates a universe where technology and art meet to weave mesmerizing narratives, where complex data is transformed into dreamlike participatory experiences.  Tulpamancer is a revolutionary #VR work that offers a unique exploration of yourself. By sharing your memories and visions of the future, you become the architect of an intimate and fascinating encounter with your tulpa, an AI that explores and reflects upon your personal stories. The exhibition then continues with The Golden Key, an immersive work that brings audiences into contact with the mythological dreams of an AI as it writes and visualizes a never-ending story, where every choice you make influences the course of the narrative. These installations were part of the official selection of the South by Southwest (SXSW) 2024 festival, the Venice Biennale 2023, the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) 2023 and the 28th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan). Coded Dreams is presented by the PHI Centre and powered by @onassis.onx . Created by Marc Da Costa & Matthew Niederhauser Technical Director: Aaron Santiago @sisiigodly Technical Advisor: Elie Zananiri @prisonerjohn Co-Produced by Onassis ONX Photos courtesy of PHI Centre

This weekend only! Experience Parallels: An AI Installation on display at Josie Robertson Plaza. This large LED wall becomes a portal for visitors to be transported to another world. A video camera mounted behind the LED wall captures its subjects and surrounding environment before reimagining a new visual world through the use of generative AI. No tickets needed – just show up! ➡️ Learn more at the link in our bio! Parallels was first commissioned through @onassis.onx for Plásmata II: Ioannina, and created by @marconline2000 & @dearspaceship . #ai #aiart #lincolncenter

Super excited to announce that my work with Marc Da Costa @marconline2000 won a Lumen Prize this week! “Parallels” is a responsive machine learning installation that acts as a portal into a world mediated by neural networks, discerning environments through a live digital decoding of a changing landscape. Extremely honored to receive this award championing the innovative possibilities of technology-driven creativity, especially amongst so many other amazing finalists. “Parallels” will also be up at in Lincoln Center Plaza this October 26 and 27. Must thank again Onassis ONX @onassis.onx @onassis.stegi for the original commission for Plásmata II: Ioannina.

✨🔮✨ Coded Dreams opens at the PHI Centre @phicentre in Montreal this week! ✨🔮✨ Up through January, this innovative exhibition from ONX members Marc Da Costa @marconline2000 and Matthew Niederhauser @dearspaceship encourages audiences to explore the frontiers of artificial intelligence and unlock the doors of their imagination through two unique and captivating experiences, Tulpamancer and The Golden Key. Coded Dreams creates a universe where technology and art meet to weave mesmerizing narratives, where complex data is transformed into dreamlike participatory experiences. There will also be a special conversation with the artists this Wednesday, October 9 @ 6:30PM about their work and the future role of artificial intelligence in creative practices. See links in bio for more details! 👀  Tulpamancer is a revolutionary VR work that offers a unique exploration of yourself. By sharing your memories and visions of the future, you become the architect of an intimate and fascinating encounter with your tulpa, an artificial intelligence that explores and reflects upon your personal stories. The exhibition then continues with The Golden Key, an immersive work that brings audiences into contact with the mythological dreams of an AI as it writes and visualizes a never-ending story, where every choice you make influences the course of the narrative. These installations were part of the official selection of the South by Southwest (SXSW) 2024 festival, the Venice Biennale 2023, the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) 2023 and the 28th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan). Coded Dreams is presented by the PHI Centre and powered by Onassis ONX @onassis.onx . Created by Marc Da Costa & Matthew Niederhauser Technical Director: Aaron Santiago @sisiigodly Technical Advisor: Elie Zananiri @prisonerjohn