
Ground Truth
A device that attaches to any Citi Bike and adjusts the bike's pedal resistance based on hyperlocal affordability data.
RBNXPLRNG (Urban Exploring) is a photographic walk where you share your city perspective in five photographs.
In this era of Google Maps, where every route is pre-planned, the idea of purposeless wandering sounds almost revolutionary. Yet there's something timeless about the dérive. The desire to experience the city in a new way, to break free from our daily patterns, is perhaps more relevant now than ever. This explains why there are now even apps that help you wander randomly through a city: they give us an excuse to get truly lost. The beauty of the dérive is that it requires no special skills. You don't need to be an artist or philosopher to try it. All you need is some time, curiosity, and the willingness to let go of your habits. Who knows what hidden places, unexpected encounters, and new insights you might discover when you stop seeing the city as a collection of routes from A to B, and start seeing it as a playground full of possibilities.


A device that attaches to any Citi Bike and adjusts the bike's pedal resistance based on hyperlocal affordability data.

At the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination we call what we do 'experiments', because it allows us to truly test things out, and fall flat on our faces sometimes.

Founded in 2002 by Marcela Okretič and Janez Fakin Janša, Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana is a private, non-profit cultural organisation that produces, presents and disseminates art projects as well as exhibition, discursive and educational programmes with the aim of critically understanding the structures of contemporary society and the role that new technologies play in shaping the way we perceive it.

As part of the MTA’s Vacant Unit Activation Program, the Data Vandals created a data-art kiosk and conversation space on the downtown 6-train platform at 51st & Lexington.