Please join us for Neurodivergence is the Antidote, a workshop about distinct modes of thinking, being, and knowing the world, through a cybernetic lens. This event will feature a film screening and guided and exploratory exercises led by artist Allison Leigh Holt, offering opportunities for reflection and skill-building
What is dialogue, and can the flows of information between agents take on its own autonomous form? What might dialogue at the human scale reveal about dialogic structures operating at other-than-human scales?
This participatory workshop explores these questions through a neurodiverse lens. We begin with a film screening of Stitching the Future with Clues (14:30), a manifesto on neurodiverse futurity that approaches sense-making cybernetically, as a temporal, embodied, and relational process. Through guided dialogue and exploratory exercises, participants will imagine themselves as processes nested within other processes, attending to how intersubjective exchange itself can become a site where mind, meaning, and agency emerge beyond the individual.
Artist Allison Leigh Holt (they/them) is a Fulbright scholar (Indonesia), a current Lucas Arts Fellow at Montalvo Art Center, and a Ph.D. candidate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Their research-based practice occupies the gap between the mind sciences and experimental media scenes. Drawing on techniques of expanded cinema and the Light and Space Movement, they combine moving image, glass, diagrams, and sunlight to explore divergent ways of sensing, processing, and exchanging information, with particular attention to neurodiverse and non-colonial ontologies.
Holt has exhibited at Eye Filmmuseum (The Netherlands), EMPAC, SFMOMA, The Exploratorium, Cemeti Institute for Art and Society (solo, Indonesia), The Ford Foundation Gallery, BAMPFA, Stanford University, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, San Francisco Cinematheque, and Denise Montell Molecular Science Laboratories (UC Santa Barbara). They lecture internationally, and have held resident/researcher roles at Sanggar Perbakayun, the Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science and Technology, and the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. At RPI, Holt steers the International Symposium for Assistive Technologies in Music and Art.
Presented by the SNF Paideia Program in partnership with Public Trust.
Upcoming Dialogue x Wellness events include:
March 6: Lee Fogel | embodiment x dialogue
April 10: Peace Ike | social repair x dialogue
