ECHOES OF TIME
Synopsis
Over the course of a year and a half, this project was developed in complete silence. No announcement was made, no advance notice given; not even the artist’s family or closest friends were aware of its development, planning, or unveiling. On the day of its execution, there was no publicity or press campaign—only those present in the moment bore witness.
This work represents the largest public art intervention produced by the artist to date. Spanning over seventy digital billboards and panels strategically selected across Newark, Jersey City, and New York City, the project meticulously traced the artist’s path on the morning of September 11, 2001, on a Newark Penn Station PATH train bound for to the World Trade Center. Along this route, on September 11, 2025, the steady pulse of commercial advertising was interrupted.
From 8:00 am to 10:00 am, in randomized fifteen-second intervals, the work appeared on screens in transit stations, on trains, and throughout city streets. This ephemeral disruption sought to puncture the endless cycle of media and consumer messaging, replacing it with a fleeting but intentional pause. It was designed to evoke stillness, memory, and presence—reminders of what it means to inhabit a space, to witness, and to be witnessed.
An overview film has been created to document this intervention and serve as a permanent record of its occurrence. The project was made possible through the support of CAASie media placement, GTHB guests, and with special thanks to Michael Surabian, whose generous contribution of footage from within One World Trade Center helped contextualize the work’s time and place.
Echoes of Time
NY/NJ Locations
World Trade Center • Church Street • Vesey Street • WTC Track 4 East Plat • 699 Sixth Avenue • Newark Penn Station North Plat • 711 Sixth Avenue • WTC Track 3 East Plat • 692 Sixth Avenue • WTC Track 5 East Plat • WTC Track 2 East Plat • 712 Sixth Avenue • Newark Penn Station Plat Mid West
World Trade Center Track 3 Mid Plat • WTC 4 Mid Plat • WTC Track 4 West Plat • WTC Track 4 East Plat • WTC Track 5 West Plat • 692 Sixth Avenue • Newark Penn Station TRKA Entrance • Newark Penn Station South End Plat • Grove St Mezzanine • Newark Track 1 Plat
One World Trade Center Memorial • 55 Church Street • 73 Church Street • 79 Church Street • Vesey Street • 185 Greenwich Street • 180 Greenwich Street • 710 Sixth Avenue • 703 Sixth Avenue • 338 Market Street Newark • 1 Raymond Plaza West Newark • 686 Sixth Avenue
About Margo Neely
Margo Neely is an internationally recognized polymath creator-inventor whose work pioneers new technologies, media forms, and cultural systems through practice, experimentation, and execution rather than trend-following pipelines. Working at the intersection of art, philosophy, technology, and human behavior, Neely conceives, designs, engineers, and launches original intellectual property that operates simultaneously as artwork, tool, and lived system.
Neely is best known as the inventor of the Neely Air Freestyle • Neely 33 Sound Shoe, a wearable drum-machine technology that fused music production, movement, and design into a category-defining object, achieving more than six billion in global reach organically. She is also the creator and director of Ladies Revenge Club, an award-winning television series named “Best of the Festival” and “Best Series” at New York Comic Con and New York Super Week’s Geekfest for its innovative narrative and production model.
Neely’s interdisciplinary practice spans art, writing, and invention, producing precedent-setting work studied, built upon, and activated across artistic, academic, and technological contexts, shaping models for how original ideas become durable cultural infrastructure.
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