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DESCRIPTION:Artist\, creative technologist\, and scholar Heidi Boisvert ask
 s “what do our bodies know\, and what can we know if we assume another bod
 y—even a doll’s body?” Reflecting on her creative works\, including her re
 cent collaboration with David Byrne on Theater of the Mind (in which patro
 ns assume the perspective of a Byrne-like doll using 4D virtual reality ex
 perience with smells and haptics)\, Boisvert considers the combined power 
 of bodies and interactive technologies: to heal\, to foster understanding\
 , and to spark social change.Heidi Boisvert (PhD) is an interdisciplinary 
 artist\, experience designer\, creative technologist\, and academic resear
 cher who interrogates the neurobiological and socio-cultural effects of me
 dia and technology. Simply put\, she studies the role of the body\, the se
 nses\, and emotion in human perception and social change. Boisvert is curr
 ently mapping the world's first media genome\, while taking great care wit
 h its far reaching ethical implications. She founded futurePerfect lab\, a
  creative agency and think tank that works with social justice organizatio
 ns to design playful emerging media campaigns to transform the public imag
 ination. She also cofounded XTH\, a company creating novel modes of expres
 sion through biotechnology and the human body. Boisvert is an assistant pr
 ofessor of AI & the arts at the University of Florida. She is also a senio
 r research fellow at the Norman Lear Center\, a research affiliate in the 
 Open Documentary Lab at MIT and a member of NEW INC’s Creative Science tra
 ck.Freyja Hartzell teaches the history of modern design\, architecture\, a
 nd art at Bard Graduate Center. Her first book\, Richard Riemerschmid’s Ex
 traordinary Living Things\, appears with MIT Press this fall. She is curre
 ntly working on a new book\, Doll Parts: Designing Likeness\, and a relate
 d exhibition on dolls and human likeness. Her primary research interests c
 enter around the roles that designed objects play in the dynamics of subje
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Embodied Intelligence and Performing Dolls
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