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Target Studio Incubator Project: Artist in residence

This graduate symposium will explore new cultural and technological approaches to sensory loss, designed and organized by artist in residence Liza Sylvestre and professors Gordon Legge and Peggy Nelson of the Center for Applied and Translational Sensory Science. It is the culmination of their collaborative work about connections between artistic and scientific approaches to sensory research and education, and addresses the lack of societal and institutional awareness of sensory disabilities.

 

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Graduate Symposium on Sensory Loss with Liza Sylvestre

A group of seven people stand in a semi-circle around a sculpture. At the right of the circle, Liza is signing. Some are looking at Liza directly, others are looking intently at the sculpture.

Liza Sylvestre is an American visual artist born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is known for detailed abstract mixed media paintings and drawings. Her current work explores new media such as installation and video art. Much of her work revolves around our sensory perceptions and misconceptions of the world. Her incubator project engaged her own deafness as a condition that is sensory as much as it is cultural and political.   Working with professors Gordon Legge and Peggy Nelson of the…

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Art and Health

Five figures kneel on a pink carpet in the galleries, inspecting and playing around with a number of tethers that Hiltner has constructed. At the center of the image, Hiltner is demonstrating how the device works.

Artists by nature are exploring the human condition and experience. Researchers conduct studies to improve human health. They seem unrelated at first glance. However, the parallel between scientific curiosity and artistic inquiry is meaningful. In the fall of 2018, artists and researchers embarked on a year-long residence program through a partnership between Boris Oicherman, Target Studio Curator for Creative Collaboration, and Dr. Timothy Schacker, the Vice Dean for Research at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Researchers often work so intensely in…

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The Section of Disapproved Books with Daniel McCarthy Clifford

Daniel McCarthy Clifford, who was in-residence in the Target Studio in fall 2018, collaborated with Betsy Friesen, the director of data management and access at the University of Minnesota Libraries and Connie Lenz, the Associate Director for Research Services and Collection Development at the University’s Law Library. Together they compiled The Section of Disapproved Books, housed in the Target Studio, which included the titles in the library catalogue that are banned in U.S. incarceration facilities.   McCarthy Clifford is interested in…

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