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SUBMERGE

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ARTECHOUSE DC’S NEXT EXHIBITION
DIGITAL ART SHOWCASE

 

 

 

About the Exhibition

SUBMERGE PROJECT

ARTECHOUSE DC’s next exhibition features fourteen bold worlds and 18 interactive installations crafted with the tools of tomorrow.

What happens when today’s leading digital artists are given the runway to create at the speed of their imagination? Find out at  SUBMERGE   Project.

Anchored by Beyond the Render, this 45-minute show transforms ARTECHOUSE DC’s floor-to-ceiling canvas into a vivid, 280-degree, 18K digital world. Powered by Render Network’s distributed GPU infrastructure, 13 artist teams—including Emmy winners Emily Yang (pplpleasr) and Maciej Kuciara—bring studio-scale, spatial storytelling to independent digital art like never before.

New York-based studio Interactive Items invites visitors to shape AI-generated imagery through voice and gesture, convene AI-embodied philosophers in a living dialogue, and trace how language and meaning evolve over time. 

Elsewhere, a second set of installations reimagines Beyond the Render’s featured artists’ signature imagery as responsive, real-time environments — flamingos that react to visitor movement, a droid that trades places with whoever approaches it, a field of color that ripples with gesture, and an AI character that holds real-time conversation at the exhibition’s end screen.

Each edition of SUBMERGE  Project brings together distinct artistic approaches to examine how technology is changing the possibilities of contemporary art.



WHAT TO EXPECT

A 45-minute program of 14 short, back-to-back works, each at most approximately three minutes, from 17 visionary digital artists. Across the lineup, you’ll dive into underwater realms, discover immersive versions of Emmy Award–winning creations, and step into sleek, futuristic worlds. Unwind to a stained-glass music box that captivated Coachella audiences, and leave inspired by the future of digital art. 

18 auxiliary installations extend the exploration of authorship and perception from the immersive canvas into direct, physical exchange.

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About the artist

Featured Artists

Annibale Siconolfi
Blake Kathryn + Maalavidaa
David Ariew + Chelsea Evenstar
FVCKRENDER
Gavin Shapiro
Jess Wiseman
Josh Pierce
Maciej Kuciara + Emily Yang (pplpleasr)
MHX
Team WAI
William Selviz + Manuel Sainsily
Woosung Kang



About the artist

Render Network

The Render Network Foundation is the governance organization for the world’s leading decentralized compute network, the Render Network. The network connects node operators looking to monetize their idle GPU compute power with artists looking to scale intensive 3D rendering work and with machine learning developers looking to tackle AI workloads.

About the artist

Interactive Items

Interactive Items is a New York–based new media art collective working at the intersection of real-time generative systems, artificial intelligence, and spatial storytelling.

Artechouse DC

A pioneer in the field of innovative digital and experiential art, ARTECHOUSE expands the possibilities of art and how we experience it through innovative technology-driven exhibitions and experiences. ​​ARTECHOUSE connects progressive ideas, artists and audiences to stimulate innovation and creativity at the intersection of art, science and technology. From immersive art spaces to an extended reality (XR) mobile app, ARTECHOUSE is where curiosity-seekers of all ages go to experience creative innovation without limits. Founded in 2015, ARTECHOUSE has become the premier destination, both online and offline, for genre-pushing, technology-driven art.

ARTECHOUSE DC was the first ARTECHOUSE location to open and holds a place dear to our hearts. Just off the National Mall and nearby Smithsonian museums and the Wharf, ARTECHOUSE DC is bringing a new kind of art experience to the nation’s capital. The most unique art destination and things to do in Washington, DC.

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