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Speakers and Signers, Friday, April 24, 10 – 12, 2 – 5PM
Moderated by Wendy Jacob, artist/CAVS fellow


A dialog (in speech and sign) between artists, designers, scientists, students, speakers, and signers. Participants will touch on the range of human experience including deafness, and on acoustical engineering, especially resonance and sonic vibrations. All presentations will be interpreted in American Sign Language.


Morning session, 10 – 12:00

Ben Bahan, Deaf Studies, Gallaudet University
Deaf Ways: Extending Sensory Reach

Charlotte M. Reed, Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT
Understanding Speech through the Skin: An Overview of Research on Natural and Artificial Methods of Tactual Communication

Summer Crider, Gallaudet University
Re-Defining Music Through Deaf Lens

Eric Gunther, artist, designer, musician
New Aesthetic Experiences for the Body

Sheila Patek, Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Rumbling shrimp and rasping lobsters: vibration in the sea

Kelly Dobson, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT
Resonating with Machines

Caitlin Berrigan, Visual Arts Program, MIT
Speaking to the Inside: a guided tour of resonant frequencies of the human body

Keth Doane, Gallaudet University
Cycling Sensations: reacting to the environment in motion


Afternoon session, 2 – 5:00

Hansel Bauman, architect, Gallaudet University
Deaf Architecture: The Resonance of Place and the Senses

Matthew Mazzotta, Visual Arts Program, MIT
Om House

Angelina Nystrom, Gallaudet University
Deaf Proximics, A Gallaudet Case Study

Robert Sirvage, Gallaudet University
The Deaf Walk: Proximics, Space and the Collectivist Way of Being

George Prochnik, writer
Reclaiming Silence for the Silenced

Ted Moallem, Health Sciences & Technology, MIT
Sensible Technologies: Sensory & Communication Aids for the Developing World

Michael Chorost, writer
A Resonance of the Senses: The Surprising Connections Between Deafness, Implanted Computers, and Touch

Julia Golden, Gallaudet University,
Performing from the Body: Deaf Visual Theatre

Jackie Lee, Media Lab, MIT
Resonance Toolkit

Jin Jung, Visual Arts Program, MIT
Play: Between Me and You

J. Gregory McDaniel, Mechanical Engineering, BU
Vibrations and Frogs, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Jessica Wheelock, Visual Arts Program, MIT
Pushing Back Avalanches




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Speakers and Signers, Friday, April 24, 10 – 12, 2 – 5PM
Moderated by Wendy Jacob, artist/CAVS fellow


A dialog (in speech and sign) between artists, designers, scientists, students, speakers, and signers. Participants will touch on the range of human experience including deafness, and on acoustical engineering, especially resonance and sonic vibrations. All presentations will be interpreted in American Sign Language.


Morning session, 10 – 12:00

Ben Bahan, Deaf Studies, Gallaudet University
Deaf Ways: Extending Sensory Reach

Charlotte M. Reed, Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT
Understanding Speech through the Skin: An Overview of Research on Natural and Artificial Methods of Tactual Communication

Summer Crider, Gallaudet University
Re-Defining Music Through Deaf Lens

Eric Gunther, artist, designer, musician
New Aesthetic Experiences for the Body

Sheila Patek, Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Rumbling shrimp and rasping lobsters: vibration in the sea

Kelly Dobson, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT
Resonating with Machines

Caitlin Berrigan, Visual Arts Program, MIT
Speaking to the Inside: a guided tour of resonant frequencies of the human body

Keth Doane, Gallaudet University
Cycling Sensations: reacting to the environment in motion


Afternoon session, 2 – 5:00

Hansel Bauman, architect, Gallaudet University
Deaf Architecture: The Resonance of Place and the Senses

Matthew Mazzotta, Visual Arts Program, MIT
Om House

Angelina Nystrom, Gallaudet University
Deaf Proximics, A Gallaudet Case Study

Robert Sirvage, Gallaudet University
The Deaf Walk: Proximics, Space and the Collectivist Way of Being

George Prochnik, writer
Reclaiming Silence for the Silenced

Ted Moallem, Health Sciences & Technology, MIT
Sensible Technologies: Sensory & Communication Aids for the Developing World

Michael Chorost, writer
A Resonance of the Senses: The Surprising Connections Between Deafness, Implanted Computers, and Touch

Julia Golden, Gallaudet University,
Performing from the Body: Deaf Visual Theatre

Jackie Lee, Media Lab, MIT
Resonance Toolkit

Jin Jung, Visual Arts Program, MIT
Play: Between Me and You

J. Gregory McDaniel, Mechanical Engineering, BU
Vibrations and Frogs, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Jessica Wheelock, Visual Arts Program, MIT
Pushing Back Avalanches

































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