Black Wall Street Journey

Black Wall Street Journey: The Ticker, by Rick Lowe

With the Ticker, Lowe reimagines the stock ticker as a public sculpture comprised of LED displays—a visualization of quantitative information in animated form. The Ticker transforms an instrument of economic exclusion into one of public understanding and collective agency. Drawing on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the Anti-Black Index (ABI), research initiatives developed by faculty and researchers at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research, the Ticker continuously visualizes indicators of Black well-being, making complex social and economic patterns accessible to a broad public.

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Artists’ introduction to the Ticker (18min)

Project Timeline

  1. Black Wall Street Journey begins

  2. Toward Common Cause Exhibition

  3. Team first visits Michigan

  4. UMMA exhibition

Collaborators

To everyone who has been involved in this project over the years, whether named here or not, thank you for your time, ideas, care and involvement.