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Session 2, 9:45 - 10:45 am
Program Notes: Sound is always experienced. Hearing is our quickest sense, and some would argue our most accurate gauge of what is happening around us in physical and emotional space. To me, it is sacred. And yet it is often treated like wallpaper: as a backdrop that we don’t really pay attention to. This hurts my soul. We listen with our ears but only when really paying attention while our bodies are always receiving sound from all around us. This is our opportunity. To be conscious of the sound we make, and receive, empowers us to be the change we want to hear in the world. This is our responsibility.
In surgery and in artmaking, materials speak, serving as informant, actor, & agent through a choreographed knowledge exchange between hands and eyes. As informant materials are embodied, as teacher and guide and acknowledged through the commingling of visual and tactile stimuli made manifest. As actor materials contain a performative quality, to be handled and reflected upon, accessed through investigation and experimentation. As agent materials are the mediators of action, a dialogue through touch connecting subjective experience with perceptual understanding. The haptics of materials inform action without words.
This presentation is about an innovative pilot study exploring the embodiment of haptic perception as it pertains to the surgeon’s hands during surgery through a comparative analysis of the haptic in visual artmaking. Interviews between a surgeon and visual artist were conducted, transcribed, and used to create twenty original artworks that visually describe the embodiment of the haptic from each perspective. These images will be shared representing a haptic journal of this creative exploration.
Disabled communities operate differently. We are often slow, inefficient and confusing in our ways. By definition, we are unable to follow the pathways that lead to, and through, normative frameworks defined by success, forward thinking and productivity. Expressed differently, however, disabled trajectories lead to alternatives to how we engage daily tasks, how we evaluate and assess the work we do, and how we confront systems of knowing and being that intentionally, and systematically, stratify our society. This short talk will closely read into the implications of disabled circulation.
Online discussion forums enable students to interact directly while engaging in course content. Student-led forums have the additional advantage of providing an opportunity for students to develop teaching as well as learning skills. Once a semester each student creates prompts that other students answer, allowing students to be both teacher and participant. The instructor guides students through an iterative editing process to craft appropriate prompts based on the content from the chapter. The class is divided into groups of 10 students, which stays the same, for the last two-thirds of the semester. Each of the 10 students serves as moderator one week and a participant for the remaining nine weeks. Topics covered are related to life stages: Friendship for Middle School Age, Childbearing for Early Adulthood, etc. In this presentation I would present the nuts bolts of how to carry out the assignment.