Aftermath
DxD 2024: artists + projects
Saralee Sittigaroon + Ziyu Zhang, NYC Clock
Raphaël Laude, Parcel ATM
Helmuth Rosales, Emissions of a Real Fantasy: The Aftermath of Fresh Kills
Sophie Westen Chien, Soil on the Move
Tatiana Kalainoff, Rezoning: At What Cost?
Zongze Chen, Sharell Bryant, Angel Mai + Yitong Chen, Chaosphere
Claudia Berger + Gabriella Evergreen, Pockets of Information: Community Care in a Speculative New York
Pia Bocanegra, Lesley Huang, Danny Yang + Linda Yang, Rat Revolution
Sonia Sobrino Ralston, Plants: Informational Entities Over Time
Exhibition dates: March 16 - 24, 2024, 12:00 - 7:00 pm daily
Artist Panel: March 24, 2024, 1:00 - 3:00 pm - RSVP here
Discussion with the Artists, moderated by Stephen Larrick
Participating artists:
Raphael Laude, Danny Yang, Gabriella Evergreen, Saralee Sittigaroon, Sonia Sobrino Ralston, Tatiana Kalainoff, one Chaosphere collaborator
The discussion moderator, Stephen Larrick is an urban planner and open gov advocate who has spent his career working to democratize the way cities are experienced and made. He currently leads the digital services team at MAPC, greater Boston's regional planning agency, overseeing the development of data products and implementation of digital equity work. Prior to joining MAPC, Stephen was a Technology and Public Purpose Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center; led city success at the venture-backed govtech startup Stae; founded and directed the Open Cities Team at the Sunlight Foundation; and served as Director of Planning and Economic Development for the City of Central Falls, Rhode Island. Stephen received his Bachelor’s of Arts in Urban Studies and Political Philosophy from Brown University, and lives in downtown Salem, MA with his wife Sarah. In his spare time, Stephen is also an artist/designer and sometimes comedian. His racial-equity focused data work, theBlack Lives Matter Street Mural Census, has been featured at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.
Presented by BRIC:
647 Fulton Street (at Rockwell Place), Brooklyn, NY 11217
DxD is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC)
Aftermath
We live in a perpetual state of aftermath. The data we collect today represent reverberations of past events; edited, interpreted, and distilled to tell a story of history. Data drives our narratives and shapes not only the future but also our vision of the future — a narrative of us and where we expect to be. Who is telling that story, and how does the aftermath of events shape how it’s told?
This year, we invited artists to explore how data reflects (and does not reflect) these lived aftermaths and to interpret the idea of aftermath through data. How does data define and organize time and space in our articulations about the world? How has the past molded our present and how will we sustain our future? Will we drown in a flood of information or make meaning from the mess…?
Questions the DxD team is thinking about:
What aftermaths are we living with today? What footprints are we leaving behind?
Does data have an expiration date? When does it become leftovers, or residue of the past?How does the time at which we tell the story shape it? When does the aftermath begin? Is it too early or too late to begin projecting a narrative of our future?
How does the aftermath provide unique space to reimagine histories? Or to create speculative visions of the future? How can that space be used or misused?
Can new understandings of the past or visions for the future be used to rework existing data? What might the data of current aftermaths look like in the future?
How are we learning lessons, mourning losses, and preparing for our new future? Can we harness the aftermath to provoke collective action and real-world change?
Read more about the DxD 2024 artists.
Data Through Design
DxD is an annual exhibition celebrating tangible and multimedia expressions of New York City’s Open Data. It provides space for creative engagement with data and new perspectives and understanding of its role in our society.
DxD is part of NYC Open Data Week, a week-long series of events and workshops organized by our partners at the NYC Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI) Office of Data Analytics and BetaNYC. Data Through Design is funded, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). Data Through Design 2024 is also presented by BRIC. The 2024 DxD Artists Panel is supported by Pratt School of Information.
Data Through Design is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization via The Fund for the City of New York's partner project program.