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Arts Gallery & Performance ✕ Neurodiversity, Disability & Accessibility ✕ Clear filters
Wednesday, June 17 · 6 sessions

8:00 AM

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Arts Gallery & Performance · Screening Room / Theatre (1070 McCormick Screening Room)

#1245: Dreams of Blindness

A VR documentary and participatory installation drawing on interviews with 22 visually impaired participants in China, using AI-assisted processes to translate their dream narratives into non-visual sensory visualizations. A companion Dream Book invites viewers to record their own dreams, opening reflection on disability, perception, and assumptions about blindness.

Neurodiversity, Disability & Accessibility
Arts Gallery & Performance · Screening Room / Theatre (1070 McCormick Screening Room)

#1332: Listening for Learning in Students’ Art from a Children’s Hospital School

An arts gallery presentation by an interdisciplinary artist-educator on listening for learning in children's art created within a children's hospital school. The work explores inclusive, adaptive arts education for pediatric patients and how fleeting experiences can be translated into tangible visual forms.

Neurodiversity, Disability & Accessibility
Arts Gallery & Performance · Screening Room / Theatre (1070 McCormick Screening Room)

#1203: #SlowLS

A video performance examining time, movement, and rest through a scholar living at the intersection of academia and chronic illness, with footage replayed at varying speeds amid campus foot traffic. #SlowLS prompts viewers to question the rushed 'two-a-year' pace of academia and how disability might help resist its pressures.

Neurodiversity, Disability & Accessibility

10:00 AM

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Arts Gallery & Performance · ALP Patio

#1336: Intersect: A Mixed Media Collage Series

A mixed-media collage series that treats artmaking as collaboration with unruly materials, advancing a posthumanist, distributed view of agency among bodies, ideas, and matter. Created by a disabled, chronically-ill scholar-artist, the work reframes the 'flawed' or 'ruined' and explores how arts can support critical consciousness and radical hope in science and engineering.

Neurodiversity, Disability & Accessibility
Arts Gallery & Performance · Screening Room / Theatre (1070 McCormick Screening Room)

#1332: Listening for Learning in Students’ Art from a Children’s Hospital School

An exhibition of student art from a children's hospital school, accompanying research on integrating arts education into pediatric settings through inclusive, adaptive approaches. The artist's own practice spans drawing, photography, sculpture, and digital fabrication, often dissolving printed images to evoke memory and emerging meaning.

Neurodiversity, Disability & Accessibility
Arts Gallery & Performance · Screening Room / Theatre (1070 McCormick Screening Room)

#1203: #SlowLS

A video performance about a scholar living at the intersection of academia and chronic illness, layering footage of the subject amid campus foot traffic at varying speeds with textual provocations. It invites attendees to question the rushed pace of academic work and whether disability can help resist its oppressive rhythms.

Neurodiversity, Disability & Accessibility