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| 99 cents & Up & Up | 99 cents store, dollar store, discount store, bargain store, variety store, dollar tree. These places have many names and represent a ubiquitous but oftentimes invisible part of New York City's landscape. In many neighborhoods, particularly in low-income and Black and brown communities, where major chains or supermarkets choose not to locate, 99 cents stores fill in the gap and can serve as places for purchasing low-cost food, home goods, school supplies, beauty products, and clothing. Even though the demand of these stores is the result of exclusion, they have also become resources for creativity and homemaking, allowing people to DIY projects, and make improvements to their homes while spending a relatively small amount of money. No two 99 cents stores are the same: some are chain stores that made a calculated decision to locate in low-income neighborhoods, but many are mom-and-pop shops that provide immigrant communities the opportunity for business ownership. |
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project_description | text | The description of the project, as it was displayed during the exhibition | 0% | Emissions of a Real Fant…Data is an act of imagin…Benches are essential pu… |
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| Gloria Lau,Daphne Lundi |
| Ground Truth, IRL |
| 2022 |
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| A Matter of Air | We are all impacted by the air we breathe. Air pollution in New York has contributed to approximately 3,000 deaths and 2,000 emergency department visits and hospitalizations annually. However, the quality of this air, the particles we find in it, and how vulnerable we are to it drastically depend on which neighborhood we live in. This installation gives you a live experience of the New York Community Air Survey (NYCASS) and its findings. Since 2009 the survey monitors street-level air pollution and attributable health events for the 42 UHF (United Hospital Fund) neighborhoods of NYC. The monitoring has led to regulations that have improved air quality all over the city. However, these improvements are not felt equally. While pollution hotspots have decreased, some neighborhoods are still feeling the impacts. Are the communities with the highest air pollution experiencing the worst health impacts, or are there other factors at play? | Katrin Bichler,Aurelie Barbier,Aron Cohen,Julie McEldoon | Hidden in Plain Sight | 2023 | Air Quality [https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/c3uy-2p5r] | New York Community Air Survey (NYCASS) (https://a816-dohbesp.nyc.gov/IndicatorPublic/key-topics/airquality/) |
| Aging Out of Place | Inspired by mahjong— a game of social connection in Chinese culture but also a symbol of the growing gambling addiction due to social isolation in Chinatown— this piece recreates a portrait of NYC Chinatown using laser-etched mahjong tiles of landmarks and elderly residents. This piece centers the struggles of elderly in New York City's Chinatown to age in place, focusing on themes of immigration, isolation, and challenges of aging in a city amid gentrification and poverty. Elderly communities, especially those in ethnic enclaves, are often “aged out” of data narratives due to digital and language divides. The piece transforms abstract statistics into tangible, lived experiences, underscoring the intersection of data and human stories. Through this, I invite deeper reflection on how we treat — or ignore— the elders in our own lives. | Michelle Hui | Corpus: Bodies of Data | 2025 | NYCHA Facilities and Service Centers [https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/d4iy-9uh7], Directory Of Homeless Drop- In Centers [https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/bmxf-3rd4], Financial Empowerment Centers [https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/dt2z-amuf], Department for the Aging (NYC Aging) - Senior Center Local Law 140 Client Data - FY 2020 [https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/hm83-bdp7], Intimate Partner Elder Abuse in New York City [https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/s67q-ee5u] | — |
| Almost Everywhere | Have you ever wondered how much of New York City is geographically referenced by its own public data? By bombarding the features of the NYC Planimetrics database – the foundation upon which all other New York geospatial data rests – with more than 400 million geographic points from NYC Open Data, voids are revealed that materialize the differences between two distinct digital definitions of the City. | Abe Rubenstein,Cameron Yick | Digital Twin | 2020 | — | NYC Planimetric Database (https://data.cityofnewyork.us/browse?Data-Collection_Data-Collection=NYC+Planimetric+Database&sortBy=relevance&page=1&pageSize=20) |
| Below, just a point | Below, just a point is a light installation which highlights the cause and effect relationship between property transaction – often happening unbeknownst to and to the detriment of inhabitants – and the amount of sunlight that these inhabitants are exposed to. On a very physical level, property transfer results directly in the construction of ever-higher rises, following a logic of most value extraction from the land, which in turn manifests itself through a net disappearance of sunlight for current tenants and neighbors upon completion fo the construction work. It is the very experience of seeing the light disappear that prevents readers and audience members to truly experience what it meant, not to live in shadows, but to see the light disappear. And yet, as the buildings rise, they obfuscate the original act of their creation – the financial exchange of mortgages – as they get buried deeper and deeper into the ACRIS database, supposedly upon, yet hardly searchable, hardly findable, only remnants of deeds. | Pierre Depaz,Nicolas Grefenstette | NaN - Not a Number | 2019 | — | ACRIS [https://www.nyc.gov/site/finance/property/acris.page], PLUTO + MapPLUTO [https://www.nyc.gov/content/planning/pages/resources/datasets/mappluto-pluto-change], NYC DOB Building Information System [https://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/bispi00.jsp], NYC DCP Environmental Impact Statements [https://www.nyc.gov/content/planning/pages/planning/environmental-review] |
| Best Places to (ALMOST) Die | Best Places to (ALMOST) Die is an art installation that visualizes the travel times for EMS vehicles to transport cardiac arrest victims to emergency rooms across New York City on laser etched acrylic panels. The installation emulates the ambiance of an indie game, one where the characters lose ‘hearts’ when they die. The EMS vehicle’s journey from a response scene to the ER is a complex combination of a multitude of factors which is the reason, simulacra on a digital twin have the potential to help improve response times and suggest optimizations. One of the more common ways in which digital twins have been put to use is in transit management - for example, since the EMS notifies the ER about its arrival, we could temporarily adjust the traffic lights and their sequence to allow for a smoother flow without holding up traffic along other routes. Simulations could also pinpoint locations in the city that require the most attention and could benefit the most from structural and policy changes. | Devang Thakkar | Digital Twin | 2020 | 911 End-to-End Data [https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/t7p9-n9dy] | — |
| Big Apple Recipes | Living in New York City can be as exhilarating as it is annoying. Inspired by Fluxus happenings and cook books, Big Apple Recipes devises three “recipes” using common household objects to recreate the data landscape of NYC living. Through “music,” “tea,” and “prints,” this project explores the collective lives of New York City through sound, taste, and touch. Since the pandemic prevents a conventional gallery format, Big Apple Recipes situates abstract datasets in objects available in most households to grant visitors an intuitive way to understand the data at hand. Each section contains a snippet of the data, a detailed recipe for making the data experiential, and an example video of someone using the recipe. The artist invites improvisation and participation from home with #bigapplerecipes. This project is inspired by Snoweria’s visit to the National Gallery East Wing in Washington D.C. I.M. Pei’s impressively thin wall has drawn many visitors’ touch, and a small section of the Tennessee marble adopted a sheen as a result. The cumulative handprints roughly resembled the shape of a normal curve flipped on its side. Knowing that human height is normally distributed, the artist reasoned that the shape of the sheen is caused by everyone touching the wall at a level intuitive for their height. This seemed like a simple connection, but Snoweria loved the physicalization and grounding of what is otherwise abstract data. This is what Big Apple Recipes aims to do. | Snoweria Zhang | Ground Truth | 2021 | 311 Service Requests from 2020 to Present [https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/erm2-nwe9], Air Quality [https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/c3uy-2p5r] | — |
| Blue Lines + Future Coral | In the broadest sense, this project is meant to render sensible the growing socio-environmental problems involving water, New York, and the climatic future. Like all problems tethered to climate change, these problems are both material and political. First, there is the increased material threat of flooding that will no doubt continue to rise as global temperatures grow and meteorological systems become less stable. But second, there is the financial threat of bluelining, or the insurance company practice of incorporating flood models into profit calculations and thus in some neighborhoods discontinuing flood insurance, or further, no longer offering 30-year mortgages. Blue Lines + Future Coral uses US Census data, neighborhood-level demographic data, and flood data from the 2020 and 2050 models to visualize waves of displacements within neighborhoods in New York, first due to the inaccessibility of credit and second due to inevitable flooding. | Jeff Fossett,Evan Finkle,Jesse Bryant | Ground Truth, IRL | 2022 | Sea Level Rise Maps (2050s 100-year Floodplain) [https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/hbw8-2bah], Sea Level Rise Maps (2020s 500-year Floodplain) [https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/ajyu-7sgg] | — |
| Body of Waste | ‘Body of Waste’ is a sculptural installation that invites viewers to witness the autopsy of New York City’s residential waste ecosystem, resurrecting the tangible body behind the data from DSNY’s waste categorization study. Using this dataset, we create a living organism out of liquified silicone and upcycled materials, indexing the collective habits, necessities, and excesses of the city. The recycling and refuse streams serve as its circulation, while the waste categories form components that cluster into organs and flow like cells through its bloodstream. | Alison Long,Cass Yao,Keyarow Mosley | Corpus: Bodies of Data | 2025 | DSNY Waste Characterization 2023 - Subsort Results [https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/pum2-pec2], DSNY Waste Characterization 2023 - Main Sort Results [https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/bpea-2i5q] | — |
| Breath Atlas | Using both data and creative expression, this work explores New Yorkers’ ability to breathe in their neighborhoods. Ten ceramic amphoras represent neighborhoods in New York City where constraints on breath have been particularly acute. Although the amphoras are consistent in size, their differing textures, glazes and distortions represent data about air pollution, asthma, poverty and incarceration rates, as well as the ratio of open and green spaces to space for industry, utilities, manufacturing and highways in each neighborhood. | HK Dunston,Jill Sigman,Abigail Regner,Mariya Chekmarova | Corpus: Bodies of Data | 2025 | — | New York City Community Air Survey (NYCCAS) [https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/data/data-sets/air-quality-nyc-community-air-survey.page], New York City Community Health Profiles [https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/data/data-publications/profiles.page], New York City Community District Profiles [https://communityprofiles.planning.nyc.gov/] |
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festival_year | categorical | The year this project was featured in a Data Through Design exhibition | 0% | 202220262021of 9 |
nyc_open_data_dataset | text | The titles and links of the NYC Open Data datasets used in this project | 15% | 2015 Street Tree Census …DSNY Monthly Tonnage Dat…311 Service Requests fro… |
other_dataset | text | The titles and links of any datasets used in this project from sources other than NYC Open Data | 72% | Emergency Food Assistanc…Trip Record Data (https…Bulk Cargo Imports and E… |