Tag: Art and Media

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Come meet the artists and hear an engaging discussion about data, art, and the idea of Aftermath.

Participating artists: 

Parcel ATM: Raphael Laude
Rat Revolution: Danny Yang
Pockets of Information: Community Care in a Speculative New York: Gabriella Evergreen
NYC Clock: Saralee Sittigaroon
Plants: Informational Entities Over Time: Sonia Sobrino Ralston
Rezoning at what Cost?: Tatiana Kalainoff

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, the Black Lives Matter Street Mural Census, has been featured at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.

Please register for the event at datathroughdesign.com.

Data Through Design (DxD) is an independent, volunteer-run collective which organizes an annual art exhibition featuring works that creatively analyze, interpret, and interrogate data made available on NYC Open Data—a valuable civic resource aimed at increasing information access and transparency.

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Presenters ⭐️

Kiley Matschke (Post-Baccalaureate Fellow at Barnard College’s CSC),

Marko Krkeljas (Senior Software & Applications Developer and CSC Technical Manager at Barnard College)

Event details 📊

Join us in celebrating NYC Open Data Week at Barnard College’s Vagelos Computational Science Center (CSC)! This two-part workshop and data jam will explore data analysis and visualization utilizing NYC environmental data. In the first half of this workshop, participants will explore ChatGPT’s data capabilities and contrast them with their own analyses via Google Co-lab. In the second half, participants will work in small groups to ideate and produce creative, accessible projects that showcase their data findings (i.e., in the form of collages, songs, stories, etc.). This workshop will explore the importance of data presentations and their impact on viewer perceptions. Those from all backgrounds and coding levels are welcome, beginner-friendly. Register here!

Location 📍

This will be a hybrid event!

Important note: Attendees who are not affiliated with Barnard College or Columbia University are strongly encouraged to attend this event via Zoom. This is due to increasingly strict/fluctuating policies surrounding campus access for the general public.

In-person location: Barnard College, Milstein Center Room 516 (5th Floor); 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027

Online location: Zoom (Register here to receive the link, which will be emailed in advance of the event)

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Data Through Design (DxD) invites you to join us for the 2024 opening reception on Friday, March 15th at BRIC in Brooklyn starting at 6:30 pm. RSVP here

When: March 15, 2024, 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Where: BRIC, 647 Fulton Street (at Rockwell Place), Brooklyn, NY 11217

Exhibiting artists and 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
More about this year’s theme:

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 invite 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?

Some questions we are 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 a 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?

RSVP here

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DxD is pleased to announce the Aftermath artists featured at this year’s exhibition:

  • 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

Visiting the Exhibition

The exhibition is open to the public daily from 12pm to 7 pm during Open Data Week. On March 15, we will host an opening event that requires RSVP.

When: March 16 – 24, 2024, 12:00pm – 7:00pm

Where: BRIC, 647 Fulton Street (at Rockwell Place), Brooklyn, NY 11217

Opening Event: March 15, 2024, 6:30 – 8:30 pm; Please visit datathroughdesign.com to RSVP.

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 invite 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?

Some questions we are 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 a 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?
Yellow event graphic with the words: The Power of Transparency: Towards An Open Data Agenda For Culture & Arts

Join us to imagine innovative ways open data practices can serve the Cultural & Arts sector and take the first step towards creating an Open Data Agenda for NYC Culture and Arts. 

Organized by the Culture & Arts Policy Institute, during this event we will explore how open data can bolster systemic change within NYC’s arts and culture sectors. After a short presentation on the principles of Open Data and Open Government, a panel of culture workers, data analysts, and artists will discuss the potential of open data to strengthen New York’s cultural ecosystem and the challenges and opportunities they present for artists, cultural workers, and culture organizations.

The event marks the beginning of a broader research and collaborative process to create an Open Data Agenda for NYC Culture and Arts tailored to the needs of cultural workers, arts organizations, and the communities they serve and work with, encouraging dialogue and collaboration within and across sectors.

Arrive early to visit Data Through Design, the annual data art exhibition featuring works that creatively analyze, interpret, and interrogate data made available on NYC Open Data.

Co-presented with BRIC, this program is part of NYC Open Data Week, an annual festival of community-driven events that brings New Yorkers together to share and learn about publicly available data.

Registration Information

Please RSVP for this event at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-power-of-transparency-towards-an-open-data-agenda-for-culture-arts-tickets-837027691357