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Commuters 2026. Video sculpture.
Same train.
Different breakdowns.

#sculpture #train #art #gabrielbarciacolombo

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The first Dumbo Projection Walk was a total vibe. What a way to kick off the cultural season here in Dumbo. ✨

📸 Photos
—Slides 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 12 & 13 @betweenthebridges
—Slide 10 @ Kay Hickman

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ONASSIS ONX DEEP SPACE 8K SHOWCASE RECAP 🛰️

Thanks so much to @arselectronica for letting us showcase four amazing works from the ONX Community last weekend, on their 16x18 meter Deep Space 8K screen!

Spanning video, game engine renderings and textile-based digital landscapes, the Onassis ONX Showcase at Ars Electronica reflects on community, ecology, the residue of procedural worlds and other systems shaping contemporary life.

🔹 Explorers — Gabriel Barcia-Colombo (@gabebc)
🔹 Forager: Spore to Forest Floor — Winslow Porter (@winslowturnerporteriii) + Elie Zananiri (@prisonerjohn) @foragergram  🔹 Wahoo Blast — Eirini Linardaki (@linardakiandco)
🔹 INTERSTITIAL MAINTENANCE — Peter Burr (@peterburr)

Photos courtesy of Tom Mesic and Ars Electronica, Videos by Anastasia Mavrogianni @hav.anas

#ArsElectronica2026 #NegotiatingHumanity #DeepSpace8K #OnassisONX

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ONASSIS ONX DEEP SPACE 8K SHOWCASE 🛰️

Onassis ONX lands at @arselectronica Festival 2026 — Negotiating Humanity — with a selection of four moving image works from the ONX Community screening on the 16x18 meter Deep Space 8K.

Spanning video, game engine renderings and textile-based digital landscapes, the program reflects on community, ecology, the residue of procedural worlds and other systems shaping contemporary life.
 🔹 INTERSTITIAL MAINTENANCE — Peter Burr (@peterburr)
🔹 Explorers — Gabriel Barcia-Colombo (@gabebc) 🔹 Wahoo Blast — Eirini Linardaki (@linardakiandco) 🔹 Forager: Spore to Forest Floor — Winslow Porter (@winslowturnerporteriii) + Elie Zananiri (@prisonerjohn)

📅 Thu Sep 10, 16:30 · Sun Sep 13, 16:00 🔻 Ars Electronica Center, Level 0, Deep Space 8K // DANUBE TRIANGLE in Linz, Austria 🎟️ Festival pass or Center ticket · registration required

Registration is open now via the link in bio!

#ArsElectronica2026 #NegotiatingHumanity #DeepSpace8K #OnassisONX

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“Escalate is a small video sculpture of an escalator with a never ending stream of people traveling somewhere unknown. I wanted to create an artwork that represents motion without progress, ritualized movement, migration and escape.”

Artist: @gabebc …this is amazing.

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It started with Agog.

Last year, I was introduced to immersive storytelling at the inaugural Agog XR Creators Lab at ASU. Five months later, I was in the Dominican Republic experimenting with Gaussian splatting and capturing what would eventually become my first headset-free immersive installation, El Colmado del Futuro.

This summer, El Colmado del Futuro came to life as a full-scale Caribbean corner store, piloting for eight weeks at Cherry Street Pier in Philadelphia. And honestly, it has been nonstop from there.

I have fallen completely in love with immersive storytelling, with these tools, with their possibilities, and especially with the idea that we can go beyond the screen and transform physical space itself into a place where stories can live.

And now, somehow, the journey is taking me to Venice.

I’m incredibly honored to share that I’m heading to Venice Immersive, the immersive section of the Venice International Film Festival, this September as a fellow with Agog: The Immersive Media Institute.

This feels like such a beautiful full-circle moment. The community that first opened the door to immersive storytelling for me is now helping me walk through another one.

Venice, here I come. 🇮🇹✨

#VeniceImmersive #XRforGood #ImmersiveStorytelling #ImmersiveMedia

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In ‘ESCALATE’, Gabriel Barcia-Colombo (@gabebc) turns the familiar rhythm of an escalator into a piece on routine, automation, and the uncertainty of where we’re headed.

The work invites us to consider what it means to keep moving in a world where the destination feels increasingly unclear.

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The work captures what the artist calls 'motion without progress.' In an era defined by system collapse, algorithmic prophecy, and technology serving as an emotional prosthetic, these figures represent us all.

Artist: @gabebc

#installationart #mixmediaart

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기억은 어디에 남는가
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뉴욕 기반 미디어 아티스트 가브리엘 바르시아 콜롬보는 사람이 남긴 사진과 영상, 데이터가 미래에는 어떤 존재가 될 수 있는지를 탐구한다. 그는 브라운관 TV와 시계, 병, 달걀, 블렌더 같은 익숙한 사물 속에 실제 사람의 영상을 담아내며, 기술과 인간의 기억을 하나의 조각으로 재구성한다.

그의 작업은 단순한 디지털 아트가 아니다. 뉴욕대학교 티시 예술대학의 교수이자 인터랙티브 미디어 교육자인 그는 비디오 조각, 대형 공공 설치, 퍼포먼스를 통해 디지털 시대의 죽음과 기록, 집단 기억을 질문해왔다. 오늘날 우리는 매일 수천 장의 사진과 영상을 남긴다. 바르시아 콜롬보는 그 기록을 데이터가 아닌 ‘또 다른 자아’로 바라본다. 빠르게 소비되는 콘텐츠의 시대에, 그는 ‘무엇을 기록할 것인가’보다 ‘기억은 어떻게 존재하는가’라는 더 근본적인 질문을 던지는 아티스트다.

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New York-based media artist Gabriel Barcia-Colombo explores what photographs, videos, and data left behind by people may become in the future. Embedding moving portraits inside familiar objects such as vintage televisions, clocks, bottles, eggs, and blenders, he transforms technology and human memory into sculptural forms.

His practice extends far beyond digital art. An Associate Arts Professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and an educator in interactive media, Barcia-Colombo examines death, documentation, and collective memory in the digital age through video sculpture, large-scale public installations, and performance. As we generate thousands of photos and videos every day, he sees these records not simply as data, but as extensions of ourselves. In an era of endlessly consumed content, his work shifts the conversation from what we choose to record to the more fundamental question of how memory itself continues to exist.

📸 @gabebc

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“Escalate” 🌀created by @gabebc
An escalator with a never ending stream of people traveling somewhere unknown. This show was part of @c24gallery

Photographed by @before10am

Created with the support of @fineacts

#factmag #videosculpture #videoart

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This is the last weekend to experience the pilot version of El Colmado del Futuro at Cherry Street Pier.

Over the past two months, thousands of people have stepped inside this Caribbean corner store from the future. Seeing people laugh, reflect, share memories, and recognize pieces of themselves in this space has been one of the most meaningful experiences of my life.

This project was never just about building an immersive installation.

It was about documenting cultural nuance. Preserving the spaces that shape us. Imagining what our communities might become while recognizing that we already have the tools to document our own stories, histories, and cultural identities before they become memory.

Tomorrow, I’ll be joined by filmmaker, photographer, and author Héctor Tapia Aguilar for a conversation about storytelling, community, and why preserving our histories matters now more than ever.

We’ll talk about our different journeys as artists, what inspired Nítido and El Colmado del Futuro, and how photography, film, and immersive storytelling can become living archives for future generations.

📍 Saturday, July 25
🕔 5:00–6:00 PM
📍 Cherry Street Pier | Philadelphia

Can’t make it to Philadelphia? We’ll be streaming the conversation live, and I’d love for you to join us from wherever you are.

Thank you to everyone who has visited, shared, volunteered, collaborated, and believed in this project. This pilot is just the beginning, and I’m excited to keep building what comes next.

#ElColmadoDelFuturo #Nitido #CherryStreetPier #humanos #XR

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如果世界早就改變了，我們會發現嗎？

畫面中的五十個人散落在一片沙漠中。

有人不停挖著一個沒有出口的洞，有人賭博，有人做瑜伽，每個人都忙著自己的事情。

文明失去了方向，大家重複著熟悉的行為，讓這片沙漠更像是一個心理空間，而不是一個真實的地點。

@gabebc 將作品命名為《Afterparty》。

這場派對早就結束了，
只是沒有人離開。

最後，所有人物突然停止手上的動作，一起轉身看向鏡頭。

@gabebc 說，他們像是在邀請觀眾加入這場 Afterparty；又或者，只是在提醒我們：

其實，我們一直都是其中的一員。

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What if the world had already changed? Would we even notice?

Fifty people are scattered across a vast desert.

One keeps digging a hole that leads nowhere. Another gambles. Someone practices yoga. Everyone is busy with their own routine.

Instead, the desert feels more like a state of mind.

A place where people have lost their sense of direction, repeating the same familiar routines over and over.

@gabebc titled the work Afterparty.

The party is already over.

No one ever left.

At the end, everyone suddenly stops what they’re doing and turns to face the camera.

@gabebc says it’s either an invitation to join the Afterparty—or a reminder that we’ve been part of it all along.

Maybe we were never just watching.

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Gabriel Barcia-Colombo, Afterparty, 2026

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via @gabebc

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