As part of Open Data Week, Pratt SAVI, CARTO and Enigma invited artists, designers, coders, technologists, engineers, architects, and citizens alike to submit a work of art based on a dataset from the NYC Open Data portal.

The theme of the exhibit is 8 Questions for the City and the artists’ work answers questions like:

• What does the urban jungle look like?
• What consequences do our choices about zoning have for the people traveling our streets?
• What do NYC civil servants do?
• How can we make sure we are interpreting our data in ways that help us truly understand what’s going on in our city?

Collectively, these works will reveal insights from a cumulative whole and what stories can emerge from data.

Artists: Mathura Govindarajan, Jill Hubley, So Yeon Jeong, Ye Eun Jeong, David Lockard, Jeremy Neiman, Seungmin Ellen Oh, James Proctor and Pitch Interactive, Juan Francisco Saldarriaga, Steven Sanchez, and TWO-N.

Read more about the works and the artists at http://datathroughdesign.com/

The exhibit is hosted at Made in NY Media Center March 3rd-10th: Weekends 10-6:00, Weekdays 9-7:00. The opening reception is Friday, March 2nd, 6:00-8:00 pm. Please note that NY Media Center will be closed on Sunday, March 4th.

The mission of Data through Design and Open Data Week, a city-wide endeavor by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics, is to encourage a wider knowledge of New York City’s open datasets and how these resources can enable better public understanding of what is happening in NYC’s neighborhoods, schools, streets, and parks.