Hi Gretta,
Great to hear about your project here.
We've worked for a number of years with Drake Music - a brilliant
organisation who work to overcome disabling barriers to music and music
making. They have been running accessible music hack days (in
partnership with Furtherfield) and at their recent event, at the Web We
Want festival in London, they were doing some work with the Mi Mu
glove. I'm sure they would have some excellent connections for you.
http://www.drakemusic.org/
bests
Ruth
On 29/09/15 09:21, Gretta Louw wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am beginning a new body of work called ‘Avatar as Prosthesis’,
looking at the ways in which avatars - both in virtual reality and,
potentially, more broadly in the sense of just our appearance online,
via social media etc - function as prosthesis for real or perceived
shortcomings/disabilities in offline life. I am drawing a link between
neuropsychological research into the adaptability of the brain/psyche
to prosthetic limbs (rubber and robotic hands especially) and the
connection that we can feel with pixels on a screen.
I don’t want to overload your inboxes with too much detail here, but
would love to hear from any of you who might be interested in
discussing this topic with me. And especially, I would be very
grateful for any suggestions of artists or art projects that you know
of which work with the theme of disability in the context of avatars/
virtual reality. Also, if anyone happens to have friends or contacts
in their circles who are both involved with Second Life and have some
form of disability, I would love to get in touch!
My contacts: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> /
@GrettaLouw
Thank you!
Gretta
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Recent review by the Süddeutsche Zeitung of my installation in the KVD
exhibition in Dachau:
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/dachau/dachau-gefangen-im-weltweiten-netz-1.2618335
/Homo Faber/, ARTour - Transnumeriques Awards 2015, Centre de la
gravure et de l’image animee, La Louviere, Blegium
/Works / Arbeiten 2011-2014/, new catalogue of works currently
available, Einraumhaus Verlag
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