MoMA, Refik Anadol, and OMA/AMO Probe Data Design's Paradox of Clarity

Key facts

• MoMA opens "Full Disclosure: The Edge of Information Design" on September 27th, curated by Paola Antonelli with Jules Bernstein and Forrest Pelsue.
• Refik Anadol unveiled Dataland, an AI museum in Los Angeles, in June.
• OMA/AMO's "Diagrams" closed an expanded run in Shanghai after debuting at Fondazione Prada in Venice during the Architecture Biennale.
• Paola Antonelli states that abundance of information can produce distraction, opacity, and a false sense of understanding.
• Giulio Margheri argues that precision must not be mistaken for truth and that OMA/AMO chose "diagram" over "infographic" because a diagram processes knowledge.
• Cesare Lombroso's 19th-century iris charts were presented as scientific evidence of criminal traits but later proven worthless and used to justify racial biases.
• Dataland trains open-source AI on transparent, permission-based datasets and translates live biometric and environmental data into multi-sensory environments.
• Margheri predicts a cultural counter-reaction to immersive data spectacles, similar to architecture's shift from 3D super-renders to collage and hand drawing.