"Every time a New Yorker steps onto the subway, it's not just a ride from point A to point B. It's also a data point. And it's also a story. A transfixing new art installation by designer Giorgia Lupi now tells those stories on 52 digital screens playing at the top of each hour inside Lower Manhattan's Fulton Transit Center. Rendered in black and white, the animation called A Data Love Letter to the Subway illustrates the visual poetry of the infrastructure that keeps the city moving."
"I wanted to turn the trains we ride every day into living characters, revealing the hidden choreography and small connections we share underground," she tells Time Out. "It's a reminder that even the most familiar system can hold wonder if you look at it differently; it's about seeing the subway, and our daily journeys, with a bit more poetry and wonder."
An installation titled A Data Love Letter to the Subway plays on 52 digital screens at Lower Manhattan's Fulton Transit Center, animating subway data in black-and-white. The animation maps train lines as black lines with colorful dots indicating individual trains, distinguishing time underground versus in sunlight and tracing shared routes like the A and C lines before divergence. The artwork anthropomorphizes trains and shows passenger interactions and missed connections, framing everyday transit as choreography and shared journeys. The installation draws on MTA data including each line's age, length, and path, and runs at the top of each hour to reveal the city's interconnected stories.
Read at Time Out New York
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