Guggenheim Project Features St. John’s
Professor
Tina Jupiter, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Assistant Chair,
Department of Communications Science and Disorders at St. John’s
University will be a key participant in the Guggenheim Museum’s
ongoing Exhibition Series stillspotting nyc.
Stillspotting nyc. is a two-year multidisciplinary project that
brings the Guggenheim Museum’s programming to various New York City
communities. For stillspotting nyc:Bronx, Dr. Jupiter,
along with Charlie Todd and Tyler Walker of Improv
Everywhere present Audiogram, a
sixty-five minute experiential and theatrical hearing test designed
for residents of the South Bronx. Audiogram will
be offered the weekend of October 13 and 14 and will begin from a
stillspotting nyc kiosk located in the lobby of the Bronx
Museum of the Arts. The stillspotting nyc project examines
how the effects of urban noise on our hearing can be measured more
creatively.
An audiogram, a test in which people are asked to raise their hand
or press a button when detecting a range of tones of specific
frequency and intensity is used to measure hearing. Dr. Jupiter,
along with Audiogram, Improv Everywhere, a New
York City- based prank collective that creates scenes in public
places, will unveil a unique interpretation of the conventional
audiogram through an experience that connects humor with the
element of surprise.
Dr. Jupiter, an acknowledged expert in the field, is enthusiastic
about this new and dramatic approach to hearing measurement and
sound awareness. “I believe this is a great opportunity to address
hearing issues in an imaginative, real world setting. I’m looking
forward to what my students and I will learn from this and how it
may positively impact the way I approach my professional research
and practice”, she said.