Upcoming Events
The Cafe for Contemporary Art - March 6 - 21
The Cafe for Contemporary Art, a new gallery in North Vancouver, is opening an exhibit that might be of interest to the Whole Dyslexic Society, created by a member of your board, Adrian Boston. He may have mentioned this to you already, but on behalf of the gallery I wanted to extend a formal invitation to the members of the Whole Dyslexic Society to come and experience Adrian's installations.
The opening is being held this Saturday evening from 6:30 - 9:00, and we encourage you to come! There will be a diverse crowd in attendance, and we expect lively conversation around issues of learning, perception, and our understanding of 'disabilities' in general. The exhibition runs through March 21st - we hope you consider attending the reception this weekend, but welcome you to drop in anytime. For your interest, I've attached a brief description of the exhibit below.
Adrian Boston is an artist, design critic and professor of design theory at Emily Carr University. With degrees in Media Ecology & Globalisation and Modern Society from New York University and Cambridge respectively, his interests range from physical computing and music, to minority rights and the philosophy of math. Boston also serves as a board member of the Whole Dyslexic Society. His current work takes issue with the educational restrictions placed on those with different cognitive styles, while questioning dominant modes of sensory experience, such as vision. Boston's work shifts attention to touch (haptics) as an interface for play, experimentation, and meaningful communication. For more information see:www.adrianboston.com.
Planned to coincide with the 2010 Paralympic Games, Disabled Media uses a series of audio/visual installations to frustrate the experience of phenomena such as colour, text and time. Each piece is concerned with the translation and legibility of one experience across different perceptual modes (ie: touch to sight, sight to sound, etc.) and draws attention not to our own perceptual limitations, but to 'disabilities' of expression inherent to contemporary media itself - implying possibilities for rehabilitating our current landscape of signs and symbols.
Cafe for Contemporary Art
140 E Esplanade
North Vancouver
www.cafeforcontemporaryart.com
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