[Art_beyond_sight_theory_and_research] Art Beyond Sight. Multimodal Approaches to Learning, Creativity, and Communication

Sun Sep 9 16:48:47 CDT 2007

*
V.S. Ramachandran speaks at the international conference /Art Beyond 
Sight. Multimodal Approaches to Learning, Creativity, and Communication/*
*via telephone conference on September 28, 2007
*(see detailed conference schedule below)

*V. S. Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition 
and professor with the Psychology Department and the Neurosciences 
Program at the University of California, San Diego . He has received 
many honors and awards, including a fellowship from All Souls College, 
Oxford. NEWSWEEK magazine recently named him a member of "The Century 
Club “, one of the "hundred most prominent people to watch in the next 
century." He has published more than 120 papers in scientific journals, 
is Editor-in-Chief of the /Encyclopaedia of Human Behaviour,/ and author 
of the critically acclaimed book /Phantoms in the Brain , /which has 
been translated into eight languages and formed the basis for a TV 
series, as well as /The Emerging Mind/, and /A Brief Tour of Human 
Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers/. He has lectured 
widely on art - as well as visual perception and the brain - and is a 
trustee of the San Diego Museum of Art.

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*REGISTER NOW.
**Art Beyond Sight: Multimodal Approaches to Learning, Creativity and 
Communication *

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September 28-30, 2007
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Organized by
Art Education for the Blind and The Metropolitan Museum of Art
*Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City *

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:/ http://www.tc.edu/ceoi/artbeyondsight. /See 
registration form for details. 
<http://www.artbeyondsight.org/change/aw-conference.shtml#registrationform#registrationform> 

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/PROGRAM /

*_FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

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10:00 – 10:20 *WELCOME * The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Art 
Education for the Blind 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/* · */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
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*? **/Cultural Heritage and the Sense/
*
*Chair: **Helene-Marie Gosselin, UNESCO
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*Panelists:** Joel Chadabe, UNESCO Digiarts Partner, and others from 
UNESCO’S Sectors of Culture, Education and Communication, and Richard 
Donald Smith, African Music Scholar and Musician**
*
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; and Fran Prezant, Abilities! (National 
Center for Disability Services) ?*/ 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
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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
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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 York (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 others ?*/ 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.
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RELATED EVENTS:
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    * 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 <http://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. *For details, visit:
      http://www.sam-culture.com/work-in-touch-with-art.htm.

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FOR A REGISTRATION FORM*, GO TO: WWW.ARTBEYONDSIGHT.ORG 
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