Haptic Scores

Haptic Scores – Composing Art and Access Through Vibration

Followed by a Q&A session

Explore vibrotactile art as both an aesthetic and an access practice — one that artists are increasingly using as the ground of new creative languages. This presentation will focus on how haptics expand our understanding of access in the arts by reconfiguring what it means to “be together” and to “be with art” through sound, shape, and touch. Who gets to control what is felt? How are intensity, consent, and rest designed into the experience? And what becomes possible when people can participate without being in the same room, at the same time, or in the same sensory register?  

Speaker Bio

Eliza Chandler is an Associate Professor in the School of Disability Studies and the Executive Director of the Office of Social Innovation at Toronto Metropolitan University. She teaches in the areas of disability arts, critical access studies, social movements, and crip technoscience, and she leads a research program that animates disability arts and its connections to disability rights and justice. Chandler regularly gives lectures on disability arts, accessible curatorial practices, and disability politics in Canada, and she is a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars.