Jongsma + O’Neill
Jongsma + O’Neill is the creative studio of artist duo Eline Jongsma & Kel O'Neill, who use XR storytelling to explore history’s impact on today’s society.
Their works include PBS/POV’s Emmy-nominated, Webby-honored 'Empire'—which uses interactive media to explore the intangible heritage of Dutch colonialism in ten different countries—and the Tim Hetherington Visionary Award-winning VR documentary 'The Ark'—which puts users eye-to-eye with the last remaining northern white rhinos in the world. They won the 2022 IDFA DocLab Award with their Instagram-based documentary and AR project 'His Name is My Name,' which engages with WWII-era perpetrator legacies. In 2024 they won the Körber-Stiftung's XR History Award for their exhibition 'Loot,' which was made in collaboration with The Mauritshuis in Den Haag and investigates how museums engage with the topic of looted art and restitution. They were Artists-in-Residence at The Sundance Institute, served as Senior Media Lab Fellow at The Economist, and were awarded an Eisenhower Fellowship. They work globally and live in Amsterdam.
