“A journalist finds himself in the woods.” Marc Da Costa, a digital artist with a Ph.D. in anthropology [from UC Irvine], was speaking from the controls of an artificial intelligence-driven video installation at the Onassis Foundation’s ONX Studio, a high-tech media lab in the Olympic Tower in Midtown Manhattan. He was talking to the computer that runs this installation. … Da Costa was demonstrating “The Golden Key,” one of four digital video installations on view in a black box theater at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Fisher building. Collectively known as Techne, the installations are closing out the latest edition of BAM’s Next Wave Festival with the kind of innovative offerings the organization thought it needed after reducing its programming and laying off 13 percent of its staff in 2023.

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