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Cyborgs, Misfits, and Makers: Art, Design, and the Future of the Human Body

Cleveland Institute of Art

  • Date Thursday, November 14, 2024
  • Time 7:00PM - 8:00PM
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Cleveland Institute of Art

Cleveland Institute of Art is one of the nation's leading accredited independent colleges of art and design. For more than 130 years, the college has been an educational cornerstone in Cleveland, Ohio, and produces graduates competitive as studio artists, designers,... more

Prosthetics, adaptive technologies, and accessible architecture all bridge the gaps between our many bodies and the built world, while wheelchair dance and other disability artworks question the inheritance of "normal." In this talk, artist, design researcher and writer Sara Hendren will uncover the surprising and generative places where disability shows up in artifacts of all kinds, helping us to ask: What is the future of the body, assisted by its many tools and extensions? How does disability shape all our lives, and the meaning we make in dependence?

    Cyborgs, Misfits, and Makers: Art, Design, and the Future of the Human Body

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