Conference Alert: Art Beyond Sight

From H-Museum:

'Tele-conference'? Not come across one of those before. Interesting idea 'though...


Art Beyond Sight: Multimodal Approaches to Learning, Creativity and
Communication

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
September 28-30, 2007

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

TENTATIVE PROGRAM - SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Related events:

* A telephone conference 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 July 1, 2007.

* The second part of this two-part international event is titled 'In
Touch With Art: An International Conference on Art, Museums and Visual
Impairment'. It will be held on November 28 and 29, 2007, at the Victoria &
Albert Museum in London.


Friday, September 28, 2007

10:00 - 10:20 Welcome
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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

11:00 -1:00 The Senses in Context: Perspectives on the senses from art
history, psychology, neuroscience and art education
Speakers include Charles Spence, Oxford University, and Michael Hanson and
Judith Burton, Teachers College, Columbia University

1:00 - 2:15 Lunch Break

2:15 - 3:30 Multimodal Learning in Different Educational Settings

Concurrent Sessions

Strategies for Museums
Chair: Nina Levent, Art Education for the Blind
Panelists include 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
representatives from the Korean Arts & Culture Education Service

Strategies for Libraries
Chair: Marcus Weisen, Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, UK
Panelists include Cari Banks, Brooklyn Library; Jenny Nilsson, Swedish
Library for Talking Books and Braille; and William Reed,
Cleveland Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped

Multisensory Approaches to Peace Building and Sustainable Development in
UNESCO Sectors of Culture, Education and Communication (Panelists to be
announced)

3:30 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 5:15 Innovative Approaches to Learning and Environments
Concurrent Sessions:

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 in 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)

The Science Behind the Senses and Creativity: Psychology and Neuroscience
for Educators
Speakers include: John Kennedy, University of Toronto; Linda Pring,
Goldsmith College/University of London; Charles Spence, Oxford University

5.30 - 6.00 Closing Remarks


Saturday, September 29, 2007

10:00 - 11:00 Keynote Speakers on Neuroscience Research/Theory

11:00 - 1:00 Neuroscience and Psychology: The senses and the brain
Speakers include Alvaro Pascual Leone and Lotfi Merabet, Harvard Medical
Center; Yuri Danilov, University of Wisconsin; Krish Sathian, Emory
University; Helen Neville, University of Oregon; John Kennedy, University of
Toronto

1:00 - 3:30 Lunch break and Poster Sessions

3:30 - 4.45 Concurrent Sessions:

Technology and the Senses
Chair: Mandayam A. Srinivasan, MIT Touch Lab Panelists include speakers John
Gardner, ViewPlus Technology; Seven Landau, Touch Graphics; and Aimee
Arnoldunessen, Wicab/ BrainPort.

Soundscapes
Panelists include speakers from Antenna Audio, Art Education for the Blind,
and artists and composers. Discussant: Richard Donald Smith, Musician,
Educator and African Music Scholar

Art and the Five Senses
Chair: Lisa Yayla, Moderator, accessibleimage discussion group, Norway
Panelists: Roz Driscoll, Elisabeth Goldring, Nitza Horner, and Michael A.
Naranjo, artists
Discussant: Sheri Khayami, BlindArt, UK

5.15 - 6.00 Closing Remarks: Reflections on the Day



Sunday, September 30, 2007


10:00 - 11.15 Concurrent Sessions:

Responding to Art Through Dance and Movement

Museum Panel, Part II
Chair: Nina Levent, Art Education for the Blind

Human-centered Design for the Web: Interactive and Multimodal Web Sites and
Web Resources
Chair: Art Education for the Blind
Panelists include Helen Petrie, University of York, and others

11.30 - 12:30 Optional tours at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(registration required)

12.30 - 2.00 Break for Lunch

2:00 - 5:00 Tactile Graphics Roundtable

Touch and descriptive tours at NYC museums, including The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Lower East Side Tenement
Museum and others.


REGISTRATION FORM, GO TO: WWW.ARTBEYONDSIGHT.ORG
(See box on upper right corner of home page.)

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