Fractured Horizons: Imaging After Images, the second edition of VSDesign's international exhibition series, returned to the NYCxDesign Festival in 2026, running for a week in New York. Organized by VSDesign in partnership with RAC Studio and Asia Design Week, the exhibition featured 60 works by artists and designers from across Asia and North America, spanning architecture, urbanism, product design, visual communication, and interactive media. The show explored how images no longer simply depict space but actively produce, operate, and regulate it, treating the image as a spatial mechanism rather than a neutral surface.
The exhibition matters because it was officially selected as an International Spotlight Program of NYCxDesign for the second consecutive year, underscoring the growing global recognition of Asian vanguard creative voices in design and technology. By shifting focus from representation to production, Fractured Horizons highlights a critical contemporary discourse on how image systems—from AI-generated environments to computational visualizations—are foundational to spatial logic in the built world. This edition reinforces VSDesign's commitment to surfacing emerging cross-cultural talent at the intersection of design, technology, and culture.