I had so much fun being a guest lecturer/visiting artist in Cara Hagan's graduate theater class at the New School last month. I brought my boxes of smells and told them sometimes more, sometimes less about what they were and how I used them in my scent performances, such as Becoming Blind (as a Bat). I also gave them prompts…| M. Leona Godin
*As a 2023-24 Diamonstein-Spielvogal Fellow at the New York Public Library, I was asked to give a public lecture in the Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities on March 8, 2024 called: “Image Description and the Critical Blind Gaze.” Below is the recording of the lecture—including questions from the star-studded audience!—followed by a cleaned-up transcript of my lecture… Read more The post Image Description and the Critical Blind Gaze * NYPL Public Lecture appeared f...| M. Leona Godin
Thanks to Bojana Coklyat for inviting me to co-lead a verbal description tour with Art educator Paula Stuttman at the Whitney Museum on May 9! It was great fun to discuss some of the works in “Harold Cohen: AARON” with the help of Be My AI, an app for blind people powered by GPT4 that produces robust, nearly instantaneous image… Read more The post AI Describing AI * Whitney Museum * Photo/Description Journal appeared first on M. Leona Godin.| M. Leona Godin