Jennifer FisherHaptic
OBORO
New Media Residency 2002
During her curatorial residency at OBORO’s Media Lab, Jennifer Fisher will research the nascent field of haptic art. Haptic artworks engage not only the eyes, but the entire body: its surfaces, interior sensations and the forces and energies which surround it. Her project will be to explore the use of multisensory 3D computer applications and haptic interfaces in contemporary art practice.
Haptic artworks engage not only the eyes, but the entire body: its surfaces, interior sensations and the forces and energies which surround it. Her project explores the use of multisensory 3D computer applications and haptic interfaces in contemporary art.
OBORO
Jennifer Fisher is an art and cultural critic, editor, and independent curator based in Montreal. She has written extensively on feminist aesthetics and exhibition practice. She is co-editor of Living Display: Rethinking Human Exhibition (forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press) and working to complete a book Haptic Aesthetics: Engaging Touch in Art and Exhibitions. Her recent projects include the exhibitions CounterPoses: Reimagining Tableaux Vivants (galerie Oboro, 1998), Vital Signs (The Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, 2000), and Museopathy (The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2001). Dr. Fisher co-organized Uncommon Senses: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Senses in Art and Culture at Concordia in April 2000. She teaches in the Graduate Fine Arts Program at Concordia University and in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University.