Media Tech Tonic #14: “The Artist's Hand in the Digital Age”, Frank Wilson, Tuesday, March 23
The Dynamic Media Institute (DMI) and the Curatorial Program at Massachusetts College of Art and Design welcomes Frank Wilson to MassArt on Tuesday, March 23 at 6:00 pm for his lecture, “The Artist's Hand in the Digital Age”.
This lecture is free and open to the public.
Frank Wilson is the author of The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language and Human Culture. A neurologist whose clinical and research interests for nearly 30 years focused on human hand skill, he was a founder of the Health Program for Performing Artists at the University of California, San Francisco; its medical director from 1996-2000; and Clinical Professor of Neurology at Stanford University School of Medicine from 2001-2004. Dr. Wilson serves on the Board of Trustees of Big Picture Learning, a national nonprofit organization of inner-city high schools, and has been working with BPL and other organizations for the past two years to establish a national program for science learning based on unsolved problems in human hand and arm prosthetics. A new book is in preparation, drawing on his long clinical experience with artists to frame a developmentally-oriented critique of contemporary educational practice.
Frank R. Wilson is the Medical Director, Peter F. Ostwald Health Program for Performing Artists at the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco.
Media Tech Tonic #14
The Artist's Hand in the Digital Age
Frank R. Wilson, Medical Director, Peter F. Ostwald Health Program for Performing Artists at the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco
Tuesday, March 23rd, 6:00 p.m.
Location: MassArt Pozen Center
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Parking and Driving Directions
Parking will be available to attendees who drive in the Ward Street lot if you enter the lot between 5:45pm and 6:45pm. If you're driving, take a close look at a Google Map of the area, finding the Ward Street Lot can be tricky the first time.
If you're traveling west on Huntington Avenue from Downtown, as you pass the main campus on your right, take a left at the light at the Longwood Avenue intersection, crossing over the trolley tracks. Go straight to the stop sign and turn left, then immediately turn right onto Ward Street. MassArt's parking lot is short distance ahead on the left.
If you're traveling east on Huntington Avenue from Bringham Circle, take a right at the light at the Longwood Avenue intersection, then a quick left at the stop sign and right on Ward Street. MassArt's parking lot is short distance ahead on the left.
The gate should be open for this event. If it's not, ring the emergency button on the guard house and security will answer. Tell them you're here for Media Tech Tonic, they should have it on their list of events for this evening.
Media Tech Tonic is a series of monthly seminars on media, design, and technology topics for designers, artists, and media makers. Meetings are (usually) held on the third or fourth Wednesday of each month. Hosted by the MassArt Dynamic Media Institute, organized by David Tames, and presented in collaboration with Boston Media Makers, and MassArt Professional and Continuing Education.
