"It is as if the museum has been reconfigured to be more inclusive of those without perfect sight, or more likely, for those who do not have preconceptions of an art experience." - Barbara Pollack
May 1
The Cube
Open House Installation
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Experience three works from the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art's Perfmanent Collection in a new sensory perspective. The Acrobat by Pablo Picasso, White by Maja Godlewska, and The Garden by Barbara Hepworth are represented aurally and visually. This installation premieres an augmented reality (AR) multi-sensory book, exploring the parallels between vision impairment and mathematical encoding with Singular Value Decomposition.
Performance
8:00 PM
Dancers Davian Robinson, Vinson Fraley, and Dr. Julia Basso embody concepts of misregistration, errors in information transfer, through movement and representations of the sighted and non-sighted in this new dance and multimedia performance. Sensorium-driven multimedia integrates interference patterns and steganography with concepts including Singular Value Decomposition and moiré patterns. Choreography by Davian Robinson. Original scores by Dr. Charles Nichols and Carter Roberts. Video composition by Janet Biggs. Audiovisual art from Tanner Upthegrove.
May 2
Performance
1:30 PM
The Cube at The Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT)
Virginia Tech, 190 Alumni Mall, Blacksburg, VA 24061
Public Hours: Thursday, May 1: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
