The exhibition's second edition at the NYCxDesign Festival presents 60 works by artists and designers from across Asia and North America, organized by VSDesign in partnership with RAC Studio and Asia Design Week

NEW YORK, NY, May 20, 2026 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Fractured Horizons: Imaging After Images, the second edition of VSDesign's international exhibition series at the NYCxDesign Festival, concluded its weeklong run in New York. Officially selected as an International Spotlight Program of the NYCxDesign Festival for the second consecutive year, the exhibition extends as a stage on which the vanguard creative voices of Asia engage a global audience. Organized by VSDesign in partnership with RAC Studio and Asia Design Week, the 2026 edition built on the foundation laid by 2025 inaugural exhibition on post-industrial and post-human futures, and turned its attention to a sharper question: what happens when images no longer simply describe space, but actively produce, operate, and regulate it.

Shifting focus from representation to production, Fractured Horizons: Imaging After Images gathered 60 works spanning architecture, urbanism, product design, visual communication, and interactive media - disciplines in which image systems have become foundational to spatial logic. Interfaces, parameters, resolutions, and predictive models no longer serve as auxiliary tools, but as the conditions under which space is now imagined and built. From AI-generated environments and computational visualizations to drawings, models, simulations, moving images, and mixed media, the participating works treat the image as a spatial mechanism rather than a neutral surface.

"Images today no longer simply depict space - they construct it, regulate it, and quietly decide what is possible within it," said the curatorial team. "Fractured Horizons: Imaging After Images gathers the artists and designers willing to treat the image not as a window onto the world, but as the very mechanism through which the world is now built."

The exhibition was presented as part of the NYCxDesign Festival 2026, one of the most influential global platforms for contemporary design, and convened a transnational community of designers, artists, and researchers from across Asia and North America.

The 2026 edition reflects VSDesign's continued commitment to surfacing emerging cross-cultural voices at the points where design, technology, and culture intersect.

The 2026 edition featured works by:

Jinrong Li - The Apocalypse Variations
Yiwei Lin - Correlscape
Lingxi Ge - Between Ground and Sky
Manming Luo - Lumina Echo
Fenghan Gao - Dialect Trek
Linyun Jiang - In Silence
Siya Xu - AuraSana
Henry Yinghao Liu - Hieroglyphic Mandala: Reimagining the Wesekh Collar
Shiyu Ma - Path as Form
Manni Chen - The power to clothes
Jingqi Sun - Community Centre for Tongji New Village
Zihan Lu - Kham Plateau Retreat
Zhengqi Ye - Resonance Tectonics
Hongming Zhang - The Castle
Xiaohang Liu - Echoes of Ages
Danyang Mu - Rhythm in Form
Ren Wei - Re-anchoring Perception
Zhe Tang - The Floating Gallery
Daiwei Wu - Renovation of Liyuan Community
Tiantian Ma - Floating Garden House
Fanyu Xu - Terrain-PV Synergy
Yue Cui - The Nanmen Bay Assemblage
Jiabao Zhou - Infinite Tianjin Eye
Hui Miao - Abbey Gardens
Jiaye Yao - The Three Corpses: A Daoist Reckoning
Ming Chen - Lucid Gathering
Eric Ma - Imaging Persists
Xi He - The Gateway Building
Shaowen Wang - Media and Art Museum
Ziyi Liu - The Garden in Gardens
Kaixin Su - Synthetic City
Yinuo Xu - Modular Habitat
Peiyi Wang - Lightness & Daylight
Xinyi Cai - BioMod Grip
Qiuyue Chen - Pingliang Civic Spine
Jiawei He - The Home for Dancers
Quanling Tan - Workers' Village Industrial Heritage Museum
Fanyi Li - Marine Oasis
Yifei Zhou - Unfinished Ground
Jiayi Wang - Parallax Hostel
Yifei Wang - Tidal House
Kaiyuan Chen / Xiaoyun Chen - AERISO: Modular Ultrasonic Cleaning System
Lifei Wang - Digital Strata: Disappearing Interactions
Peng Zheng / Yohe Wang - Design Podcasts
Renjia Wang - Interplay
Wenjuan Zhou / Weiwei Xiang - Artix: Infinite Canvas Node-Based AI Image Generation Workflow
Yujia Ke - Familiar Strange: A Speculative Interface for Tasting the Unfamiliar
Yumei Feng - Easymed - AI Drug Interaction Checker
Zhiyong Wang - Apocalypse
Ziwei Deng - Attune: AI-Guided Adaptive Meditation
Jingyi Wang - Historiq
Wei Kang - AskDogWise
Yi Luo - Becoming
Yuchuan Yu - Serix

Artwork Recommended by Asia Design Week:

Rongrong Chao - Macao Design Week 2022
Ofen Hu - Carlsberg × Fengzimu Art Collaboration
Pink Blue Black & Orange Co., Ltd. - DEmark 2025 Design Up+Rising: Bangkok Design Week 2025
Eric Widjaja / Ira Carella / Ritter Willy Putra / Miko Awangyudha - Mangkunegaran
gemasemesta.co - Indonesia Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Indonesia, Indonesian Graphic Designers Association (ADGI)

About VSDesign

VSDesign is a cross-cultural innovation center specializing in AI-powered UX and global brand strategy. Known for curating cutting-edge exhibitions and strategic design projects, VSDesign has partnered with institutions including the Penn Museum and NetEase to champion emerging creatives at the intersection of art and technology. For more information about VSDesign and its programs, visit https://vsdsgn.com.

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