"Anyplace, Anytime, Anywhere" by Yehwan Song features a multitude of digital icons bouncing like a pinball machine and eventually coalescing into one word at the center of each screen. The artwork takes inspiration from the MTA’s complex network of subway and train lines beneath the built environment and the frenetic paths that individuals move within it. Through collaboration with computational tools including artificial intelligence and coding, icons, emojis, and browser windows bump into one another, slide through portals, and rotate in a seemingly random configuration. Over the two-minute run time, order slowly emerges as the forms align to reveal a single word. Passing in either direction, a mysterious poem can be read that is open to interpretation: ANY PLACE TIME WHERE ANY. Along with Monika Bravo’s "Ouranos, Above Us Only Sky," these artworks that draw from the frenetic energy of the city are displayed for two minutes each at regular intervals across five monumental LED screens near the 47th Street entrance to Grand Central Madison.

The work is presented by MTA Arts & Design with technical support from ANC.

Yehwan Song is a Korean-born, New York-based web artist specializing in creating non-user-centric, unconventional, and diverse independent internet spaces. Her primary focus in her projects is on exploring the discomfort and insecurity experienced by marginalized users, which is often hidden beneath the facade of technological utopianism, marked by excessive comfort, speed, and ease of use. Song’s work is a visual method of navigating between online and physical spaces. She creates websites that foster new interactions between users and devices, including performances. Additionally, she crafts physical installations and sculptures that visualize online spaces and phenomena in diverse materials and contexts, as well as online spaces informed by physical inputs. Song has participated in residencies at Pioneer Works and New INC, and her work has been included in the Helsinki Biennale (2023), Istanbul Biennale (2022), the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2021), and museum exhibitions at the Heckscher Museum and Seoul Museum of Art, among others.