28-30 settembre 2007 - New York
Seconda Conferenza Internazionale "Art Beyond Sight: Multimodal Approaches to Learning, Creativity and Communication", organizzata da Art Education for the Blind (AEB) and The Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York
La conferenza è rivolta a educatori, artisti, professionisti museali e a tutti coloro che operano nel mondo della disabilità sensoriale, in particolare, e di altre forme di disabilità.
PROGRAMMA:
Friday, September 28, 2007
10:00–10:20
WELCOME
Emily Rafferty, President, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Waheed Khan, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information
10:20–11:00
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Stephen Kuusisto, Professor of Creative Writing and Disability Studies, The University of Iowa, author of Planet of the Blind
11:00–1:00
THE SENSES IN CONTEXT
Perspectives on the Senses from Art Education, Visual Culture, Psychology and Neuroscience
Chair: Linda Pring, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Visual culture and dis/ability. Nicholas Mirzoeff, New York University
Artistic development and the senses. Judith Burton, Teachers College, Columbia University
Creativity and the senses. Michael Hanson, Teachers College, Columbia University
Psychology and the senses. Charles Spence, Oxford University
Neuroscience and the Aesthetic Impulse. V.S. Ramachandran, University of California, San Diego
1:00–2:15
LUNCH BREAK
2:15–3:30
Concurrent Sessions
MULTIMODAL LEARNING IN DIVERSE SETTINGS
Strategies for Museums
Chair: Nina Levent, Art Education for the Blind
Panelists: Jane Samuels, British Museum, London; Waafa el-Saddik, the Egyptian Museum, Cairo; Sandra Eastwood, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Leena Hannula, Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Finland; and Caro Howell, Whitechapel Art Gallery, UK
Discussant: Linda Pring, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Strategies for Libraries
Chair: Carrie Banks, Brooklyn Public Library
Panelists: Jenny Nilsson, Swedish Library for Talking Books and Braille; William Reed, Cleveland Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped; and Oum Jeongsoon, Korean Association of Blind Artists
Cultural Heritage and the Senses
Chair: Helene-Marie Gosselin, Director, UNESCO/NYO
Panelists: Rochelle Roca-Hachem, Program Specialist for Culture, UNESCO/NYO; Joel Chadabe, UNESCO Digiarts Partner; Richard Donald Smith, African Music Scholar and Musician; and Kojiro Hirose, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan
Discussant: Clara Ines Rojas-Sebesta, Art Education for the Blind
3:30–4:00
BREAK
4:00–5:15
Concurrent Sessions INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO LEARNING AND ENVIRONMENTS
Public Spaces and Multisensory Design
Chair: Matthew Sapolin, NYC Commissioner, Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities
Panelists: Michael Graves, Michael Graves Associates; Valerie Fletcher, Institute for Human-Centered Design at Adaptive Environments; John Zeisel, Hearthstone Alzheimer Care; and Joan M. McGovern and Chinyere Oguekwe, JPMorgan Chase
Discussant: Carlos Mouräo Pereira, Architect
Case Studies in Multimodal Approaches to Arts Access
Chair: Francesca Rosenberg, Director of Community and Access Programs, Museum of Modern Art
Panelists: Pam Rogers, Pure Vision Arts/The Shield Institute; Fran Prezant, Abilities! (National Center for Disability Services); and Debra Cole, EdD student at Teachers College Columbia University
Soundscapes
Chair: Lou Giansante, Art Education for the Blind
Panelists: Edmund Mooney, Composer, Sound Artist and Acoustic Ecologist; Sofie Andersen, Antenna Audio; Jeff Tancil, Lower East Side Tenement Museum; and Martin Quinn, Design Rhythmics Sonification Research Lab
Discussant: Richard Donald Smith, Musician, Educator and Scholar
Sensualizations: Embodied Sensory Imagination. An
Experiential Workshop
Dana Salisbury, Multi-disciplinary Artist; Creator/Director, Dark Dining Projects
5:30 – 6:00
CLOSING REMARKS
Valerie Fletcher, Adaptive Environments
Saturday, September 29, 2007
10:00–11:00
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Alvaro Pascual Leone, Harvard Medical Center, Neuroscience Lab
11:00–1:00
THE SCIENCE OF THE SENSES: PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE
Chair: Lotfi Merabet, Harvard Medical Center
Experience shapes human brain development and function. Helen Neville, University of Oregon
Brain plasticity, sensory substitution and integration, and the work of Paul Bach-y-Rita. Yuri Danilov, University of Wisconsin
Vision meets touch in the human brain. Krish Sathian, Emory University
Metaphoric pictures devised by an early-blind adult on her own initiative. John Kennedy, University of Toronto
1:00–3:30
LUNCH BREAK
POSTER SESSIONS featuring the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the J. Paul Getty Museum; the Chicago History Museum; EDU Art from Italy; and innovative artists and educators from the U.S., Japan and Australia
3:30–4:45
Concurrent Sessions
Technology and the Senses
Chair: Mandayam A. Srinivasan, MIT Touch Lab
Panelists: Aimee Arnoldussen, Wicab BrainPort; John Gardner, ViewPlus Technology; Steven Landau, Touch Graphics, Inc.; and Carlos Mouräo Periera, Architect
Discussant: Krish Sathian, Emory University
Art and the Five Senses
Chair: Lisa Yayla, Huseby Kompetansesenter, Oslo, Norway; Founder, Accessible Image discussion group, Norway
Panelists: Roz Driscoll, Elizabeth Goldring, Nitza Horner, and Michael A. Naranjo Discussant: Sheri Khayami, BlindArt, UK
The Science of Creativity: Psychology and Neuroscience for Educators
Chair: tbd
Panelists: Lotfi Merabet, Harvard Medical Center; Linda Pring, Goldsmiths College, University of London; and Charles Spence, Oxford University
5:15–6:00
CLOSING REMARKS
Sunday, September 30, 2007
10:00–11:15
Concurrent Sessions
Strategies for Museums II
Chair: Nina Levent, Art Education for the Blind
Panelists: Maribeth Flynn, Brooklyn Museum of Art; Monica Suris, ComAccess, Barcelona; Elizabeth Sweeney, National Gallery of Canada; Hollie Ecker, Roberto Wirth Fund ONLUS (Italy); and other museums
Discussant: Rebecca McGinnis, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Technology and the Senses II
Chair: Helen Petrie, University of Yok (UK)
Panelists: Caro Howell, Whitechapel Art Gallery (UK); Jaime Sánchez, University of Chile; Josh Miele, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
Responding to Art Through Dance and Movement Workshop
Susan Norwood and Suzette Neptune, The Project Volume
11:45–1:00
Concurrent Sessions
ROUNDTABLES
Tactile Graphics
Moderator: Helen Petrie, University of York
Participants: Teresa Kardoulias, Art Education for the Blind; Lisa Yayla, Accessible Image (Norway); Ileana Sanchez (Puerto Rico); Jenny Nilsson, Swedish Library for Talking Books and Braille; Steve Landau, Touch Graphics; Bernat Franquesa, Touch Graphics; and Caro Howell, Whitechapel Art Gallery, UK
Artists
Moderator: Joan Muyskens Pursley, Art Education for the Blind
Participants: Oum Jeongsoon, Ann Cunningham, Anne Walton, Barry Kleider, and Michael Schneider
TOURS AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (registration required)
1:20–1:45
CLOSING REMARKS
Elisabeth Axel, Art Education for the Blind
3:00–5:00
TOUCH AND VERBAL DESCRIPTION TOURS AT NYC MUSEUMS
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Details and directions TBA.
INFO:
http://www.artbeyondsight.org/change/aw-conference.shtml
