{"data":{"id":"15832","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":15832,"topgoose_id":2196,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":15832,"title":"World Trade Center Recordings: Winds After Hurricane Floyd","display_artist_text":"Stephen Vitiello","display_date":"1999/2002","accession_number":"2003.89","dimensions":"Sheet: 60 × 43 in. (152.4 × 109.2 cm)\r\nImage: 60 × 43 in. (152.4 × 109.2 cm)\r\nMount (plexiglass, aluminum): 60 × 43 × 3/16 in. (152.4 × 109.2 × 0.5 cm)","medium":"Sound installation, 8:20 min., with DVD surround sound mix and chromogenic print face mounted to plexiglass and mounted on aluminum","department":"collection","classification":"Installations","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":"1/3, 2 AP","publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eStephen Vitiello, \u003cem\u003eWorld Trade Center Recordings: Winds After Hurricane Floyd\u003c/em\u003e, 1999/2002. Sound installation, 8:20 min., with DVD surround sound mix and chromogenic print face mounted to plexiglass and mounted on aluminum, sheet: 60 × 43 in. (152.4 × 109.2 cm)\r\nImage: 60 × 43 in. (152.4 × 109.2 cm)\r\nMount (plexiglass, aluminum): 60 × 43 × 3/16 in. (152.4 × 109.2 × 0.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee 2003.89. © 1999/2002 Stephen Vitiello\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eWhile participating in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s artist-in-residence program, Stephen Vitiello began recording sounds from his studio on the ninety-first floor of Tower One of the World Trade Center. Vitiello became fascinated with the disparity between the dynamism and vitality of the cityscape below and the unreal silence generated by the building’s thick, sealed windows. He brought the resonances from outside into his studio space by affixing two contact microphones to the windows and adjusting their reception until he could discern sounds from the other side of the glass. Based on a recording Vitiello made the day after Hurricane Floyd struck New York, this work reveals the cracking noises of the swaying building stressed by the fierce winds. A towering structure of glass and steel, the World Trade Center here suggests a creaking, old wooden ship, buffeted by elemental forces. Shown at the 2002 \u003ci\u003eWhitney Biennial\u003c/i\u003e in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001, the piece further assumed the status of an unwitting memorial to a lost site.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Two tall window panes overlooking a city skyline with dangling suction-cup cords attached to the glass.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T15:38:23.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T11:59:29.279-05:00","images":[{"id":104090,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/15832/2003_89_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"7883","type":"artist"}]}}}}