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$IGNAL$ 035: GIVE US SOMETHING TO PLAY
Splice, Stylophone and Jason Moran make creative intervention legible. Show the decision someone can make, then show its consequence.
$IGNAL$ 034: THE ORIGINAL IS STILL WORKING
Gozu at MoMA PS1, Etro’s archive and Brooklyn garment reuse reveal what an earlier version can still do.
$IGNAL$ 033: CHANGE THE DISTANCE
Viewing distance belongs in the creative brief. The Rockettes, COLLECTIBLE and Fou Gallery reveal what a change of position makes visible.
A computer, a new fiber and a Brooklyn creative-technology program ask what a demonstration should actually prove.
$IGNAL$ 031: WHO KEEPS IT ALIVE?
An internet-art archive, a returning printing block and XR glasses ask who keeps creative work useful after launch.
$IGNAL$ 030: DESIGN THE REVEAL
A masquerade, information design and a changing city ask what audiences need to know, and what they should discover.
$IGNAL$ 029: HOW FAR FROM THE ORIGINAL?
A new synthesizer, Kim Gordon’s Jazzmaster and JR’s New York exhibition ask what survives when a reference changes form.
$IGNAL$ 028: WHAT THE IMAGE MISSES
Scent, live painting and infrared materials reveal what communication loses when the format cannot carry the work’s defining quality.
$IGNAL$ 027: THE SMALL PRINT IS THE PRODUCT.
Music credits, reconstructed memories and autonomous systems reveal how contribution, context and responsibility shape creative work.
$IGNAL$ 026: WHAT DOES IT DO ALL DAY?
A home robot, a SoHo flagship and an Atlanta arts venue reveal the everyday work behind a creative identity.
Photographs you can take home, stone with a previous life, and AI beyond the demo screen. Three things worth stepping out for, from Queens to White Plains.
$IGNAL$ 024: WHO GETS TO CHANGE IT?
Creative control leaves evidence. Clothing, music tools and computational art reveal what collaborators actually get to change.
A chair, a swamp and a castle each start with a form we recognize. What holds attention is what happens when we get closer.
$IGNAL$ 022: GHOSTS, MICROBES AND GLUE.
A new opera in New York, a book designed to decay, and a surgical adhesive put experimentation into familiar forms.
$IGNAL$ 021: THE MACHINE HAS A ROLE.
An interactive museum elevator, an AI collaborator in the orchestra, and six robots scrolling real phones put machines in visible roles.
$IGNAL$ 020: THE FUTURE HAS HARDWARE.
A Roadster prototype jumps, an electric concept car catches tire dust, a wearable senses satellites, and brain models reach orbit.
$IGNAL$ 019: WHAT FASHION IS MADE FROM.
Apple’s role in a Cappadocia show, a New York meeting of fashion and hospitality, and a West Harlem test of seaweed-derived yarn.
$IGNAL$ 018: WHO GETS TO SHAPE IT?
A crowd becomes part of an artwork, people steer their feeds, and three independent games receive room to grow.
$IGNAL$ 017: A STORE, A SCREEN, A STUDIO.
Three New York projects show what a transit screen, a beauty counter, and a Brooklyn studio can do when the site shapes the experience.
$IGNAL$ 016: WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE VIEW.
Vertical dramas reach theaters, Spotify plans a superfans gathering, and music leaders ask what artists can build after discovery.
$IGNAL$ 015: THE CITY BECOMES THE SET.
Law & Order, Dexter and Winnie the Pooh turn familiar New York spaces into story worlds.
$IGNAL$ 014: THE SPACE DOES THE WORK.
Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Bronx Museum and Grand Central turn physical space into a production network, a working laboratory and a live exchange.
$IGNAL$ 013: THE WORKROOM IS OPEN.
Huge, Shopify, Van Alen and Arts Gowanus are making the creative process visible.
$IGNAL$ 012: THE AUDIENCE HAS A ROLE.
Best Buy, Printemps New York, DC and the New Museum are designing experiences around what visitors do next.
$IGNAL$ 011: FOUR THINGS MOVING INTO VIEW.
OpenAI advertising, three architecture exhibitions, four Riverside Park sculptures and a SoHo retail event.
$IGNAL$ 010: WHO GETS TO BUILD THE MYTH?
Tom Sachs, Patek Philippe and The New York Historical reveal how cultural mythology moves between control, reinterpretation and preservation.
$IGNAL$ 009: NEW YORK OPENS UP.
Open House New York, Pratt Institute and Neue Galerie are turning access into the event.
$IGNAL$ 008: THE INTERFACE HAS SENSES.
Smell, touch and voice are becoming interface materials.
$IGNAL$ 007: PUT THE IDEA IN THE ROOM.
An AI company, two impossible cars and deep-ocean research show what happens when abstract ideas take up space.
$IGNAL$ 006: THE CAMPAIGN KEEPS TALKING.
OpenAI, TikTok and YouTube are turning campaigns into systems that can answer, recur, sell and learn.
$IGNAL$ 005: THE ROOM IS NOT NEUTRAL.
Times Square screens, former CBS offices and a new Inwood theatre reveal how architecture changes the meaning of cultural work.
A fitting room, everyday materials and public bathrooms reveal why the systems behind an experience are becoming the experience.
$IGNAL$ 003: THE ART IS LEAVING THE SCREEN.
Anthony McCall, LIZN’BOW and the New Museum pull art into physical space in New York.
$IGNAL$ 002: THREE THINGS WORTH SEEING IN NEW YORK RIGHT NOW.
BEAUTYSPACE, Aperture and Onassis ONX give small products, photography books and digital art new physical lives in New York.
$IGNAL$ 001: THE INTERNET CAN WAIT.
Phone-free fashion, a computer with a death wish and battery-consuming bacteria.
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