Peter Burr's Responsive Eye

RESPONSIVE EYE, a collection of Burr’s recent mixed reality artwork, will be exhibited at ONX STUDIO in New York from May 12 - 15. The opening reception on Thursday, May 12, 6 – 9 PM will celebrate the launch of the RESPONSIVE EYE exhibition catalog alongside the work’s New York premiere.

Peter Burr’s solo show, Responsive Eye, takes its title from an exhibition of Minimalism and Op-Art, which debuted at MoMA in 1965. The works in his show of animation, augmented reality, video game, and computer-generated art draw heavily from the color fields and austere geometries of these 20th-Century artistic movements, but invest their formal perceptual experiments with narrative and conceptual content. He creates candy-colored abstractions of digital culture as a means of exploring the dissonant contradictions, ecstatic visceral enjoyments, and annihilating self-destruction of our contemporary life on the grid. This body of work premiered at the height of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic at Telematic Media Arts in San Francisco. This New York exhibition features 4 works from this inaugural show, presented on the occasion of the launch of the Responsive Eye exhibition catalog designed by Eric Timothy Carlson.

The opening reception on May 12 will also feature an hour-long screening of Burr’s recent films. Seating is limited.

Exhibition Dates: May 12, 2022 - May 15, 2022

Open Hours: Friday - Sunday, 12 – 6 PM

About the Artist

Peter Burr (b. 1980) is an artist from Brooklyn, NY. His practice often engages with tools of the video game industry in the form of immersive cinematic artworks. These pieces have been presented internationally by various institutions including Documenta 14, Athens; MoMA PS1, New York; and The Barbican Centre, London.

Previously Burr worked under the alias Hooliganship and founded the video label Cartune Xprez through which he produced hundreds of live multimedia exhibitions and touring programs showcasing a multi-generational group of artists at the forefront of experimental animation. His practice has been recognized through grants and awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital Grant, and a Sundance New Frontier Fellowship.

About ONX Studio

ONX Studio is an accelerator, a subsidized workspace and presentation gallery located in the Onassis Gallery of Olympic Tower, the Midtown Manhattan headquarters of Onassis USA. It houses a dozen artists and producers, including NEW INC alumni and others working in extended reality, for a year-long term to develop significant works for the public realm. Designed by the NYC-based architectural firm Leong Leong, the ONX Studio, a 4,000-square-feet space, provides an accelerator for this growing community of extended reality artists where they are able to develop, beta test, and demo their works in a presentation gallery for curators, producers, collectors, and agencies. Members host open houses and salons where the community can share best practices and foster a network and support system. ONX’s vision will be steered by NEW INC’s Director Salome Asega, its cofounder Karen Wong, ONX Director Vallejo Gantner, and the Onassis Foundation’s Head of Digital and Innovation Prodromos Tsiavos.

About Telematic Media Arts

Telematic Media Arts is a San Francisco art gallery and production company, under the direction of Clark Buckner, which exhibits and supports time-based arts with particular attention to screen culture and art’s intersection with telecommunications technologies.

LOCATION AND COVID PROTOCOLS

ONX Studio is located in the Atrium of the Olympic Tower building in midtown Manhattan, at 645 Fifth Avenue, with entrances on 51st and 52nd Streets, between Madison and Fifth Avenues.

Proof of Covid-19 Vaccination Required. Our top priority is the health and safety of our audiences, artists, and staff.

Proof of full vaccination is required, and masks must be worn at all times when not eating or drinking. We will continue to update our policies in adherence with the most up-to-date health and safety guidelines and protocols.

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