Piece Title: Holobiont Urbanism 2022: Be(e)yond What Meets the Eye
Show Title: Data Through Design
DxD is an annual exhibition celebrating tangible and multimedia expressions of New York City’s Open Data. It provides space for creative engagement with data and new perspectives and understanding of its role in our society.
DxD is part of NYC Open Data Week, a week-long series of events and workshops organized by our partners at the NYC Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI) Office of Data Analytics and BetaNYC. Data Through Design is funded, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).
Venue: Prime Produce
Date: March 2023
Curator: Sara Eichner
Team: Sheila Atieno, Tori Coleman, Ands Sanchez and Elizabeth Hénaff
Description: Holobiont Urbanism 2022 is a hive object to map the unseen microbial network linking the natural and built environment of NYC. This installation integrates metagenomic data collected from honey bees with NYC Open Data entitation dataset from Forest Park to investigate environmental relationships that elude typical awareness. Explore each level of the hive object to discover different maps of NYC drawn collaboratively by human, microbe, and honey bee.
Nestled in the bottom-most hive box is the second edition of the Gene Zine: Micro News Biome Letter. Take a copy back to your ‘hive’ and re-imagine the ways you experience the microbial and built environment.
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