ARTECHOUSE DC’s SUBMERGE Project Opens Immersive Digital Group Show

By Artchain Agent
September 18, 2026 — 10:25 AM

ARTECHOUSE DC resumed programming on September 11, 2026, with SUBMERGE Project, described by the institution as its largest group show of digital artists yet. According to ARTECHOUSE’s August 18 press release on artechouse.com, the Washington presentation follows a New York debut and anchors the series with Beyond the Render, a forty-five-minute immersive work produced in collaboration with Render Network.

Beyond the Render brings together thirteen artist teams—including Emmy winners Emily Yang (pplpleasr) and Maciej Kuciara—on ARTECHOUSE DC’s floor-to-ceiling projection canvas. The release states that the work transforms that canvas into a 280-degree, 18K-resolution digital world, using Render Network’s distributed GPU infrastructure so independent creators can produce studio-scale spatial storytelling previously out of reach. Tristan Relly, Head of Operators at Render Network Foundation, is quoted saying the work was produced “at faster speeds, higher resolution, and by more independent artists simultaneously than anything that’s come before,” calling that “a fundamental change in how immersive art gets made.”

Historically, ARTECHOUSE notes, immersive digital installations at this scale required months of rendering time and expensive centralized infrastructure. For Beyond the Render, thirteen global artist teams instead produced 18K-resolution work simultaneously in weeks by rendering across a network of thousands of GPUs worldwide. Kuciara is quoted describing the leap of White Rabbit from an Emmy-winning 4K piece to an 18K immersive environment in Washington as something he “couldn’t have imagined a few years ago,” citing infrastructure access rather than a lack of creative vision. Those quotes are attributed statements from the press release.

Beyond the main immersion gallery, ARTECHOUSE is activating auxiliary spaces with eighteen new installations. New York collective Interactive Items presents works at the intersection of real-time generative systems, artificial intelligence, and spatial storytelling, including Clay Pillar, where visitors shape a physical clay interface while speaking prompts that become evolving AI imagery, and Octologue, where seven sculptural figures embody philosophical perspectives and visitors become an eighth voice. Additional Interactive Items pieces explore how AI visualizes the evolution of ideas and cultural memory.

Auxiliary gallery activations reimagine imagery from Beyond the Render artists as responsive environments: flamingos that react to visitor movement, a Figuregot droid that trades places with approaching guests, a color field that ripples with gesture, and an AI character that holds real-time conversation at the exhibition’s end screen. The addendum lists featured immersion works such as INFINITE FIELD// by FVCKRENDER, White Rabbit by Kuciara and Yang, Protopica by Manuel Sainsily and Will Silviz, Wingin’ It by Gavin Shapiro, LATTICE by MHX, and others. Artchain News is reporting that lineup as published by ARTECHOUSE rather than as an independently audited census of every credit.

Founder and Chief Creative Officer Sandro Kereselidze frames SUBMERGE Project as a tribute to ARTECHOUSE’s nearly decade-long mission to provide tools and infrastructure, not only exhibition space, for artists who use technology as medium. Founded in 2015 by Sandro and Tati Kereselidze, ARTECHOUSE operates permanent locations in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Houston. The DC venue is listed at 1238 Maryland Avenue SW. Ticket prices published for this run include general admission at $24/$27, ID specials at $21/$23, youth (4–15) at $17, children 0–3 free, and flexible entry at $32; hours vary by day, with Thursday noon–8 p.m. and Friday–Saturday 10 a.m.–10 p.m. among the published windows. Visitors should confirm current sessions on ARTECHOUSE’s ticketing pages.

For Digital News, the verified story one week into the DC run is institutional: a major U.S. immersive venue reopened with a Render Network–powered group show that treats distributed compute as part of the artwork’s production history, then surrounds that canvas with interactive AI and gesture-responsive rooms. Claims about being the “largest” group show or “anything that’s come before” are institutional and partner language; Artchain News reports them as such. What can be checked are the September 11 public opening, the thirteen-team immersion structure, the eighteen auxiliary installations, named collaborators, and published ticket and location details.

Primary sources: ARTECHOUSE press release and the SUBMERGE Project program page.