Experiments in Vibration and Form

Experiments in Vibration and Form as Embodied Artistic Medium

Explore pathways for creating in vibration, space, and form: we’ll share a few artistic concepts, research, and deployed prototypes from Kinetic Light’s practice.

Laurel and Colin research and develop tools to understand vibration as an independent and inherently embodied medium: prioritizing artistic, equitable content which centers skilled interpretation and sensory practices of disabled people.

Speaker Bios

Laurel Lawson is a transdisciplinary artist whose work includes both traditional choreography and novel ways of creating and deploying art through technology and design. Laurel’s work draws from mythology, Appalachian and Southern cultural practices, and the liminal lived experience of queerness and disability.

Working nationally and internationally in art, design, access, and technology, Laurel is a founding artist of disability arts ensemble Kinetic Light. Their artist-engineer collaborative ensemble, The Choreodaemonic Collective, receives core support from the Ford Foundation and a Creative Capital Award. Laurel also consults for a number of regional, national, and international organizations as a strategist and facilitator and is a noted speaker in both arts and technology.

Instagram: @worldsoflaurel

Colin Clark is an artist, researcher, and developer of community-led technologies. Since the 1990s, he has contributed to the growth of inclusive design in Canada and internationally. He is co-founder of Lichen Community Systems, a non-profit worker cooperative dedicated to the practice of community-led design.

As an artist, Colin designs creative access technologies for live performance with the Kinetic Light Dance Company, mediates motion-media-robotic data flows with the Choreodaemonics Collective, improvises electronic music with Bitstance, and develops open source software and hardware frameworks that are used by artists worldwide.

Websites: Colin Clark and Lichen Community Systems