Data Through Design: Echo{logies} Opening Reception

Join us for the opening reception for the 2026 Data Through Design (DxD) exhibition, Echo{logies}. Data Through Design is an independent collective who organize an annual art exhibition featuring works that creatively analyze, interpret, and interrogate data made available on NYC Open Data. RSVP here

About the Exhibition

The 2026 Echo{logies} exhibition, which runs through April 5, contains ten data-driven, interdisciplinary art projects presented in partnership with BRIC. The projects in DxD 2026 work with the bodies of knowledge, or “-logies”, that reverberate through New York City’s data. They explore ecosystems and cycles of life expressed in data; the rhythms of growth, decay, renewal, and transformation as they “echo” through data, and the interplay between human and non-human worlds. This year’s theme engages with questions such as: How can the city, and data itself, be understood as ecological and cyclical? How might data be materialized, embodied, or inscribed by natural processes? What accumulates, erodes, regenerates, lingers as traces, or resonates as echoes?

The work in this exhibition makes data felt, witnessed, or transformed—through physicalization, interaction, or by exposing how nature itself records and inscribes change. The art works engage with living systems, natural or urban ecologies, or information ecosystems, and examine materiality and craft, murmurations and flows, entropy and genesis, and the sublime scale of ecological change.

DxD 2026 Artists + Projects

Trpti Sanghvi, Turnstile Murmurations
HaoChe Hung + Tianxing (Vincent) Zhu, Waste Rhythms: Living Records of NYC Communities
Becca Ellsworth + Becca Odell, Desire Paths
Charlotte Gartenberg + Ivan Himanen, Linger Loiter
Karissa Whiting + Elizabeth Costa, The Oracle of Gotham
Craig Fahner + al haley, Wild Lots
Mark Heller + Mariel Collard Arias, Landscape Workshop
Jingrong Zhang, Metropolitan Cuneiform
Ian Callender + Karla Rothstein, HartLine
Elina Oikonomaki + Lukas Lesina Debiasi, Urban Data Orchestra: Composing the Hidden Rhythms of the City

Echo{logies} is organized and curated by the 2026 Data Through Design team: Julia Bloom, Tereza Chanaki, Rachel Daniell, Jack Darcey, Sara Eichner, Justin Roberts, and Can Sucuoğlu.