New York Talk Exchange (NYTE)

On Wednesday the New York Talk Exchange (NYTE) project will debut as part of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) exhibition, “Design and the Elastic Mind.” Based on the data of telecommunications traffic (voice traffic + IP traffic) flowing to and from New York City, the project aims at visualizing and exploring the connection that the city neighborhoods entertain with the rest of the World. It should reveal how the heart of New York pulsates, how it changes over the space and time, and how the city’s neighborhoods differ from each other by maintaining special and distinct relationships with particular cities and countries.

World Within New York shows how different neighborhoods reach out to the rest of the world via the AT&T telephone network. The city is divided into a grid of 2-kilometer square pixels where each pixel is colored according to the regions of the world wherein the top connecting cities are located. The widths of the color bars represent the proportion of world regions in contact with each neighborhood.
See the Press Release.