Data Through Design 2021

2020 marked DxD’s fourth exhibition and featured ten works under the theme Ground Truth. The planning, development, and all events took place during the COVID 19 pandemic which posed numerous challenges and opportunities. The exhibition took place, and still lives on line: www.dxd2021.com. Because the pandemic prevented us from hosting a live exhibition, we will include the work from 2021 with the 2022 exhibition.

Ground Truth Virtual Opening

While we couldn’t repeat the live crowds of 2020, but we did gather a huge crowd virtually that was able to move around a digital gallery, view presentations, talk with artists in front of their projects, and even bump into old friends.

NYC Open Streets!
NYC Alive! and Shadow Tag

The NYC Open Streets Program on Ave B became a site specific venue for NYC Alive!, an outdoor performance and celebration of the city by Jen Ray and Jason Forrest and an interactive project encouraging play with physical data visualizations about children and the area called Shadow Tag by Cindy Stockton Moore and team.

Ground Truth Panel Discussion

Much of our information consumption occurs alone in front of a screen. Before the advent of the printing press, however, knowledge was commonly generated (and regenerated) orally. Data Dialogues combines the age-old power of group discussion with the unprecedented expository power of modern data systems, data visualizations, and data art. The result is a collaborative conversation that humanizes the data representations in question and fosters a deeper understanding of our relationship with data and with each other. While discussion is carefully-facilitated, it is ultimately guided by the myriad perspectives, identities, and histories of its participants. The 2021 Data Dialogues was held through zoom and included performance and discussion.