StillSpotting NYC

In a "city that never sleeps," how can and do New Yorkers escape, find respite, and make alternate use of their spaces? SIDL joins the Guggenheim Museum's team for StillspottingNYC, a quiet and poetic project that takes the Guggenheim out of the Museum and into New York's urban landscape to highlight unusual sources of silence in a space inhabited by more than 8.3 million residents. An interdisciplinary group of graduate students working with Laura Kurgan and Sarah Williams at SIDL, will investigate the concept of "stillness" in a fast-moving city this semester by exploring ways to visualize data about stillness and silence -- and their corollaries, noise and commotion. This workshop/seminar class will be a testing ground for this investigation, and the results of the research workshop will be included on the Guggenheim's "StillspottingNYC" website.