Eye-Tracking and Art Workshop

Please join us for this workshop to take part in this SSHRC Insight project and make some art with your eyes. Participants can drop in anytime between 10 am–4 pm, at the Critical Future Studio/Lab.

Between 12–2 pm, we will have a live networked event between UBCO and the University of Regina.

This event is free and open to all. Pizza and prizes will be available.

This event is part of “Disrupt/ability”, a project with the IMPACT Lab, at the University of Regina, with Drs. C. Riegel & K. M. Robinson and Critical Future Studio Lab, at UBC Okanagan, with Dr. M. Smith.

“Disrupt/ability” is a series of research projects that aim to challenge notions relating to the embodied nature of artistic and musical creation and performance. We develop eye-tracking technology, custom software code, and digital screens to allow those with mobility challenges to create art with their eyes only. Central concerns invoked by “Disrupt/ability” relate to digital hardware and software as user interfaces relating to technology and disability, ableist assumptions about the need for functional limbs to create visual art and to create and perform music, and the very nature of the creative environment. Through the IMPACT Lab (Interactive Media, Poetics, Aesthetics, Cognition, and Technology), and the Critical Future Studio Lab, we have developed novel adaptations of eye trackers by writing custom software code to allow art and musical creation and performance. The hardware and software can be engaged by solo users and in collaboration with individuals in other locations by using a networking function.