Name Adrian Boston | Role Artist | |
Adrian Boston is an artist, design critic and lecturer of design theory at Emily Carr University. With degrees in Media Ecology and Globalisation & Modern Society from New York University and Cambridge respectively, his interests range from physical computing and music, to minority rights and the philosophy of mathematics. Boston also serves as a board member of the Whole Dyslexic Society. His current work takes issue with the educational restrictions placed on those with different cognitive styles, while questioning dominant modes of sensory experience, such as vision. As a result, Boston's work shifts attention to touch (haptics) as an interface for play, experimentation, and meaningful communication.
Recent Projects
In late 2009 Adrian Boston launched www.adrianboston.com where he introduces ideas around haptics and in March 2010 he held his first solo exhibition at the Cafe for Contemporary Art in North Vancouver, Canada. Entitled Disabled Media, that exhibition, which was planned to coincide with the 2010 Paralympic Games, used a series of audio/visual installations to frustrate the experience of phenomena such as colour and time. Each piece was concerned with the translation and legibility of one experience across different perceptual modes (i.e. touch to sight, sight to sound, etc.) and drew attention not to our own perceptual limitations, but to 'disabilities' of expression inherent to contemporary media themselves - implying possibilities for rehabilitating our current landscape of signs and symbols.