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Isla Hansen
Isla Hansen is an artist making objects and systems for play. She makes tools, toys, puppets, costumes, movies, bricks / blocks, and invents stories, sporting events, and camera rigs. She combines soft and hard materials, digital fabrication processes, interactive and real time media, and techniques from online DIY culture to blur consumer-producer boundaries and challenge the way in which industrial forms of production displace visible forms of human labor. Isla teaches sculpture at a big university in a small city and runs a kids summer camp at the Folly Tree Arboretum.
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Past Events
Tori Lawrence + Co.
Tori Lawrence + Co. is a collaborative group of artists and educators working with dance, sound, architecture, and film in nontraditional and immersive site-specific processes. They create cinematic live performances that become shaped by the audience's associative relationships with their surrounding environment - exploring how spectator intervention/immersion into a performative world can positively affect the emotional connection between spectator, site, and performer. They recode, skew, and upcycle outmoded environments as a means to branch into fantastical worlds of possibility - to move beyond the assumed properties of place and inscribed movement pathways. Their talk will explore how they develop and utilize scores of movement, sound, and design for site-based making and teaching.
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Onassis ONX Panel Event
Craig Fahner and Elizabeth Henaff from NYU IDM in conversation with Onassis ONX members Idris Brewster, Matt McCorkle and Modesto Jimenez. The artists will each briefly introduce their work, followed by a moderated discussion on how their practice intersects with the Extra-Ordinary. Open discussion and Q&A with the audience to follow.
Idris Brewster is the founder and executive director at Kinfolk Tech, based in Brooklyn, New York. He is an artist, creative technologist, and educator.
Matt McCorkle is an emmy nominated artist working at the intersection of sound, art technology, the natural world and mental health.
Modesto Jimenez is a Dominican-born, Bushwick-raised poet, playwright, educator, actor, producer, and director. His work exists in and explores the intersections of identity, language, mediums, cultures, and communities found in his personal life and beyond.
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Steve Gurysh
Steve Gurysh is an artist and educator working in sculpture, computational craft, and art in the public realm. Recognized by a fluid approach to process and material, his work compresses place-based inquiries into potent artifacts containing digital to physical translations, speculative relationships to time, and generative social contracts. His talk will explore the dimensions of a place-based practice developed in correspondence with scientists, municipal workers, other artists, communities, and non-human participants.
RSVPIDM Grads: Register for a studio visit with Steve!
Shannon Mattern
After roughly 25 years in the academy, I’ve recently resituated my work within a networked urban commons. This talk explores two new projects: first, the Cross-Reference Coalition, an experimental school bridging New York City’s knowledge and cultural institutions, and framing public pedagogy as creative practice; and second, the Library Field, an ecological library that serves as an open-air laboratory for interdisciplinary design practice and creative research. I’ll examine how this work responds to the institutional transformations and the political, social, technological, ethical, and epistemological challenges of our age.
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Series Kickoff with Elizabeth Hénaff and Craig Fahner
Kicking off the Spring 2026 ONX Speaker Series, IDM Faculty Elizabeth Hénaff and Craig Fahner present a talk and workshop that introduces the series’ extraordinary theme. Focusing on practices that engage with uncommon processes, spaces and audiences, the presenters will lead a workshop activity that encourages participants to imagine expanded and unexpected avenues for their works in progress. Hénaff and Fahner will present their own work in relation to these themes, and will provide an overview of the work of the upcoming 2026 speaker series presenters.
No RSVP required! For non-NYU access, please contact craig.fahner@nyu.edu
Creating Multisensory and Accessible Museum Exhibits
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Cheryl Fogle-Hatch
Kicking off this year's speaker series, we invite Dr. Cheryl Fogle-Hatch who helps museums develop multi-sensory exhibits for everyone. Creating exhibit content with tactile and audio components engages people with history, the arts, and sciences through an integrated experience, regardless of their visual acuity.
