Join us for a free film screening of Getting Up followed by a conversation with Luke DuBois, Co-Director and Associate Professor of Integrated Digital Media, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and Pamela Horn, Acting Director, Digital and Emerging Media and Director, Cross-Platform Publishing and Strategic Partnerships, Cooper Hewitt, on future technologies reimagining user-centered accessible design.
Getting Up tells the story of graffiti artist TemptOne, who was diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease), which left him almost completely physically paralyzed. In 2009, members of Free Art & Technology Lab, OpenFrameworks, the Graffiti Research Lab, and The Ebeling Group communities teamed up to develop an open-source device called The EyeWriter that allowed TemptOne to once again create his art.
6:00pm: Check-In
6:30pm – 8:00pm: Film screening
8:00pm – 8:30pm: Conversation with Luke DuBois, Co-Director and Associate Professor of Integrated Digital Media, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and Pamela Horn, Acting Director, Digital and Emerging Media and Director, Cross-Platform Publishing and Strategic Partnerships, Cooper Hewitt
Getting Up, 2012. USA .75 minutes. Directed by Caskey Ebeling and produced by Mick Ebeling.
Museum admission not required.
This program will be ASL Interpreted and Real-Time Captioned. Find out about Cooper Hewitt’s accessibility services.
Cooper Hewitt Lab: Design Access is a free programming series taking place in the first two weeks of February 2018, activating the Barbara and Morton Mandel Design Gallery as a collaborative space for learning and experimentation through interactive activities, workshops, discussions, and more for visitors of all ages and communities. Presented in partnership with New York City’s Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities, collaborators include the San Francisco-based studio Creative Growth, Columbia University Digital Storytelling Lab, Google, Mark Morris Dance Group’s Dance for PD, and ReelAbilities Film Festival.
