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Hi,
The Art Beyond Sight: Multimodal Approaches to Learning, Creativity and Communication Conference will be held 28-30 September. Perliminary program and link follow.
Regards,
Lisa


http://www.artbeyondsight.org/change/aw-conference.shtml
Art Beyond Sight: Multimodal Approaches to Learning, Creativity and Communication

September 28-30, 2007

Organized by
Art Education for the Blind & The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

REGISTRATION FORM BELOW

Following the sold-out 2005 conference on multimodal approaches to learning, Art Education for the Blind (AEB) and The Metropolitan Museum of Art are organizing a second international conference to further address the challenges faced by educators, artists, museum professionals, architects and designers to create multimodal learning opportunities and environments that better serve all audiences. This conference will address multiple modalities in the following disciplines: cognitive psychology and neuroscience; universal/human-centered design, products and environments in the 21st century; art history, contemporary art and new media; and education for people with sensory and other disabilities. The conference brings together educators, museum curators, psychologists, neuroscientists, architects, designers, anthropologists, scientists, and others concerned with multimodal learning, disability, art and education.

Teachers College, Columbia University provides a continuing education credit for this conference. See registration form for details.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

Friday, September 28, 2007

10:00–10:20  
 WELCOME
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Art Education for the Blind
Wahid Khan, UNESCO Assistant Director General, Information and Communication
 
 
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

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
Visual cultural and dis/ability. Nicholas Mirzoeff, New York University
  
 
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 Gallery, UK
Discussant: Linda Pring, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Strategies for Libraries
Chair: Marcus Weisen, Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, UK
Panelists: Jenny Nilsson, Swedish Library for Talking Books and Braille; William Reed, Cleveland Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped; and Oum Jeong Soon, Korean Association of Blind Artists
Multisensory Approaches to Peace Building and Sustainable Development:
Panelists: Joel Chadabe, UNESCO Digiarts Partner, and others from UNESCO’S Sectors of Culture, Education and Communication
  
 
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, Adaptive Environments; John Zeisel, Hearthstone Alzheimer Care; and Joan M. McGovern and Chinyere Oguekwe, JPMorgan Chase
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; and Fran Prezant, Abilities! (National Center for Disability Services)
Soundscapes
Panelists: Edmund Mooney, Composer, Sound Artist and Acoustic Ecologist; Sofie Andersen, Antenna Audio; and Lou Giansante, Art Education for the Blind.
Discussant: Richard Donald Smith, Musician, Educator and Scholar
Sensualizations: Embodied Sensory Imagination. An
Experiential Workshop
Dana Salisbury
  
 
5:30 – 6:00
 CLOSING REMARKS

 

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
Discussant: Jaime Sánchez, University of Chile
  
 
1:00–3:30
 LUNCH BREAK
POSTER SESSIONS featuring the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the J. Paul Getty Museum; the Chicago History Museum; and innovative educators from the U.S., Japan and Italy
 
 
3:30–4:45
Concurrent Sessions
 Technology and the Senses
Chair: Mandayam A. Srinivasan, MIT Touch Lab
Panelists: John Gardner, ViewPlus Technology; Steven Landau, Touch Graphics, Inc.; and Aimee Arnoldunessen, Wicab BrainPort.
Discussant: Krish Sathian, Emory University
Art and the Five Senses
Chair: Lisa Yayla, Founder, Accessible Image discussion group, Norway
Panelists: Roz Driscoll, Elisabeth Goldring, Nitza; Horner, and Michael A. Naranjo, Discussant: Sheri Khayami, BlindArt, UK
The Science of Creativity: Psychology and Neuroscience for Educators
Panelists: John Kennedy, University of Toronto; 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; Elisabeth Sweeney, National Gallery of Canada; and other museums.
Discussant: Rebecca McGinnis, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Technology and the Senses II. Multi-modal and Interactive Design for the Web
Panelists: Caro Howell, Whitechapel Gallery (UK); Helen Petrie, University of York; Jaime Sánchez, University of Chile; and others
Responding to Art Through Dance and Movement Workshop
Susan Norwood and Suzette Neptune, The Project Volume
  
 
11:30–12:45
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; and others.
Artists
Moderator: Sheri Khayami, BlindArt, UK
Participants: Oum Jeong Soon, Ann Cunningham, and others
TOURS AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (registration required)
 
 
12:45–2:00  
 LUNCH BREAK
 
 
2:00–5:00
 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.
 

 

RELATED EVENTS:

A TELEPHONE CONFERENCE CALL with wrap-up discussions from the Art Beyond Sight conference will be held on October 15, 2007. Participants from around the world are encouraged to dial in. The phone number and tele-conference schedule can be found at www.artbeyondsight.org after August 1, 2007.
PART TWO of this international event, In Touch With Art: An International Conference on Art, Museums and Visual Impairment, will be held on November 28 and 29, 2007, at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London
 

REGISTRATION FORM - PDF Format
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Lisa Yayla
Huseby Kompetansesenter
Oslo Norway
lisa.yayla@xxxxxxxxxx

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