Tea Hut Art:
Resonance by Jessica Reisch

June 8 - August 17, 2025

Tea Hut

Tea Hut Art: Resonance
by Jessica Reisch

Exhibition: June 8-August 17
Opening reception: June 8

Resonance is a site-specific audiovisual installation in the Tea Hut in the Hammond's Japanese Stroll Garden. The piece combines audio recordings that reveal the garden pond's underwater ecosystem with footage that grounds these sounds in place and time. The underwater soundscape is sonified through both traditionally-transmitted sound as well as vibrations, through use of transducer speakers. This way, someone standing, sitting, or laying down on the sound platform can experience the soundscape through their full bodies as much as through their ears. The intention of the installation is to reorient visitors' relationships and connections to their surrounding environment by exploring ways of listening, hearing, seeing, and feeling that often fall outside of human purview. After experiencing the installation, perhaps you will engage with the garden with a new and expanded awareness.

Jessica Reisch is a new media artist, designer, and educator with an MFA in Computer Arts from the School of Visual Arts and a BA in Education Studies from Brown University. She is currently teaching digital design and emerging technology courses at Pratt Institute, New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) and Hostos Community College (CUNY).

Emphasizing rhizomatic networked connections, her soundscapes and immersive installations draw on the use of highly sensitive microphones and microscopes in conjunction with transducer speakers and projections to engage with the surrounding environment with a deepness usually overlooked or under-engaged by humans in the Anthropocene.

Her installations and films have been shown internationally, including at Locust Projects in Miami, FL, The Engine Room International Sound Art Competition in London, UK, SIGGRAPH 2024 in Denver, CO, and the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA) 2024 in Meanjin (Brisbane), Australia.

Accompanying Program:

Listening to Nature – Jessica Reisch’s Resonance

Sunday, August 17, 3pm

Free with museum admission

Join new media artist, designer, and educator Jessica Reisch, creator of the site-specific and site-exploring audiovisual Resonance, in a community listening experience of the Hammond’s Japanese Stroll Garden in a way and with devices that will open you to a new world and insights.