DxD 2021: Ground Truth Virtual Opening

Date/Time: Friday, March 5th, 6:00-8:30 pm
Location: Arium virtual 3D platform
Registration link
Open Data Week Listing

Join us for the opening of Ground Truth, the Data Through Design 2021 exhibition. Explore the work, mingle with other participants, and meet the artists.

New York Alive! (Live Performances)

Date/Time: Saturday March 6th, 1 & 4 pm (about 15 - 20 minutes for each performance)
Location: Ave. B between 7th and 8th Streets by Tompkins Sq. Park

Join artist Jen Ray and data designer Jason Forrest as they present a not-entirely-serious exploration of the urges, needs, and desires of New York City residents - both officially in the data, as well as through informal survey results. Inspired by historic influences such as Otto & Marie Neurath Isotype designs and the Triadic Ballet of the Bauhaus, this performance will be a celebration of the city, echoing the interests that make our shared culture so unique. By incorporating movement, props, pictorial statistics, music, megaphones, and good humor we guarantee you've never seen data presented data in this way before!
No registration required.

Shadow Tag (Interactive charts and street drawing)

Date/Time: Saturday March 6th, 1:30 - 3:30pm
Location: Ave. B between 7th and 8th Streets by Tompkins Sq. Park

Join artist Cindy Stockton Moore, Hoang Pham, and Rachel Blake in an interactive, participatory experience with tangible graphs and sidewalk chalk to explore local data. The project aims to reveal the unseen in the OpenCity data — data which impacts children specifically, who are underrepresented in the metrics but always present. This event is child-friendly — please bring your kids!
No registration required.

The Subway Above Ground - Listening Session  

Date/Time: This will be available to download and listen to any time! but we recommend you download a track that corresponds to your subway line and listen while you travel to join us on Ave B on Saturday, March 6th for the two events listed above.
Location: En route to & from Ave. B between 7th and 8th Streets by Tompkins Sq. Park

Listen to Brian Foo’s data sonification piece en route to Shadow Tag and New York Alive! This project generates music based on income data from the census blocks one travels beneath while riding the subway. Inspired by the work of minimalist composer and New York City native Steve Reich, 46 data-driven songs that correspond to 46 MTA subway lines will be available to download and play while you ride underground. The dramatic contrasts embedded in each song provide space to meditate on the dramatic differences in income throughout the city
No registration required.

Data Dialogues

Featuring an Opera Performance and in Partnership with The US Census Bureau
Date/Time: Sunday, March 7, 5:00-7:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Registration link
Open Data Week Listing

Art critique? Philosophy meetup? Games night? Data discovery? Empathy workshop? Opera performance? Census celebration? All of the above!
Join us for a collaborative exploration of the artwork in DxD’s 2021 exhibition and how it intersects with our diverse personal histories, perceptions, values, and identities. This year, Data Dialogues is partnering with the US Census Bureau’s The Opportunity Project (TOP). We will start by discussing DxD artist Brian Foo’s audio-visual renditions of income inequality data gathered by the Census. Ideas generated during the dialogue will inform TOP’s Data Jam the following day. In addition, Soprano Rose Hegele will perform an aria rendition of Hear, one of DxD artist Snoweria Zhang’s Fluxus-inspired “recipes.” Through facilitated games, deep listening, and compassionate dialogue, we will surface connections between the themes in DxD 2021 artwork and our own lives, the communities we’re a part of, and our increasingly data-mediated society.

Artist Panel Discussion

Date/Time: Sunday, March, 14th, 4:30-6:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Registration link
Open Data Week Listing

Description: Statistics and datasets form representations that are shaped by the unique point of view and methods of their creation and are never truly objective. This year’s Ground Truth theme invited artists to step out into their world to examine the relationship between public data and the lived experience. We encouraged artists to ask questions such as: How do our observations align, or misalign, with what is presented through abstracted data? Do missing information and gaps in context affect our understanding of reality?  Join some of our 2021 DxD artists in conversation with former DxD organizer Stephen Larrick as they discuss their inspiration, process, and inevitable challenges in revealing the human stories behind the data.

Participating artists
Snoweria Zhang - Big Apple Recipes
Cindy Stockton Moore, Rachel Wetzel - Shadow Tag
Rachel LaBine, Aishwarya Keshav - Lost Wax
Ivan Himanen - Broadway Boogie Woogie
Jason Forrest - NEW YORK ALIVE!
Jennifer Dalton - Feel My City Breaking & Everybody Shaking
Renée Crowley - Wasted Potential
Julia Bloom, Michael Hsu - Compositions
Alec Barrett - Every Row is a Garden