Interactive Designer and Google Creative Lab’s own Alexander Chen reinvented the subway map of New York City into an interactive, real-time instrument at mta.me. By utilizing the MTA’s actual subway schedule, each departing train is graphically represented — beginning its journey independently and assuming a place in the symphony at large. The piece extracts data from the MTA’s public API and visualizes every motion of the New York City transit system, while steadily continuing in…
