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Misregistration

May 1-2, 2025

"It is as if the museum has been reconfigured to be more inclusive of those without perfect sight, or more likely, for those who do not have preconceptions of an art experience." - Barbara Pollack

May 1

The Cube
Open House Installation
10:00am - 5:00pm

Experience three works from the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art's Perfmanent Collection in a new sensory perspective. The Acrobat by Pablo Picasso, White by Maja Godlewska, and The Garden by Barbara Hepworth are represented aurally and visually. This installation premieres an augmented reality (AR) multi-sensory book, exploring the parallels between vision impairment and mathematical encoding with Singular Value Decomposition.

Performance
8:00pm

Dancers Davian Robinson, Vinson Fraley, and Dr. Julia Basso embody concepts of misregistration, errors in information transfer, through movement and representations of the sighted and non-sighted in this new dance and multimedia performance. Sensorium-driven multimedia integrates interference patterns and steganography with concepts including Singular Value Decomposition and moiré patterns. Choreography by Davian Robinson. Original scores by Dr. Charles Nichols and Carter Roberts. Video composition by Janet Biggs. Audiovisual art from Tanner Upthegrove.

May 2

Performance
1:30pm

Dancers Davian Robinson, Vinson Fraley, and Dr. Julia Basso embody concepts of misregistration, errors in information transfer, through movement and representations of the sighted and non-sighted in this new dance and multimedia performance. Sensorium-driven multimedia integrates interference patterns and steganography with concepts including Singular Value Decomposition and moiré patterns. Choreography by Davian Robinson. Original scores by Dr. Charles Nichols and Carter Roberts. Video composition by Janet Biggs. Audiovisual art from Tanner Upthegrove.