After a sold-out performance on March 1, I’m delighted to announce a second chance to experience “100 years of Blindness: A Scented Performance Lecture on Photography” on April 15, 7pm, at Olfactory Art Keller, NYC! Buy tickets! What happens when we explore photography without sight? In this experimental performance lecture, blind author and artist Dr. M. Leona Godin conjures five…| M. Leona Godin
Thanks to a Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship, New York Public Library will be my office this fall! I’m excited to bang around the library telling people I’m doing research in the Wallach Photography Collection… Face of the Blind: Essays on Photography Proposal by M. Leona Godin Many anonymous blind people populate the photographs of NYPL’s Wallach Collection. Through a series of essays,…| M. Leona Godin
Final chance to experience “Becoming Blind (as a Bat)”! After two sold-out performances at @Olfactory_Art_Keller in January, I’m doing one last encore of this scented storytelling journey on Wednesday, February 21, 7pm. Tickets are going fast--hope to hear you there! BUY TICKETS * “Becoming Blind (as a Bat): A Scented Storytelling Journey” joins my worlds - writing, performance, smell (Aromatica…| M. Leona Godin
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
That’s 26.2 miles my friends! MY body has recovered, but there are still cowbells ringing in my brain – the crowds were incredible, the sense of accomplishment immense. But especially, I’m so grateful to the three Achilles guides who helped me do it and have become so dear to me along the way: Gillian Broome, Sarah Goodman, and Kristen Berke.…| 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
I began showing up at Achilles NYC—a running/walking/rolling group that pairs disabled athletes with volunteer guides—last summer after many years away. I was sporadic until I met a young woman named Gillian. On our second run, we flirted with the idea of doing the NYC Marathon. She’s doing Chicago like a month before, and said something along the lines of:…| M. Leona Godin
Scented/tactile performance, AI at the Whitney, molecules of connectedness, fragrant photos, pressure cooking, dog shit, alchemy/poetry & a half marathon are some of what you'll find in this edition of the Dr. M. Leona Godin's Aromatica Poetica Newsletter... ID: The Good Life flyer has a “SOLD OUT” stamp over the June 29 date, a circle around the July 13 date,…| M. Leona Godin
