September 21 – December 1, 2024
Myles de Bastion, Cymatic Star I, Portland Museum of Art, 2016 – 2017
This fall, OUMA continues to celebrate accessibility, disability pride and wellbeing with a dynamic exhibition of the work of eight artists. All artists are inspired by and utilizing music/vibration/sound in their work, and all are Deaf. This highly technical exhibition includes five screens continuously showing performances with listening/experience booths alongside photographs of the artists in action. Video, photography, paintings, and light installations fill Skylight Gallery in this completely immersive experience.
A highlight of the exhibition is Cymatic Star III, a light/sound display with haptics by Portland based artist Myles de Bastion. As the visitor approaches this installation, any sounds they produce are displayed by LEDs across triangles which spread across the wall. As described by the artist, “A spectrum of colors shows the sound’s dynamics. Softer, higher frequency sounds are cooler colors and louder, lower frequency sounds are warmer colors. The dynamics, loudness or softness, of environmental sound are analyzed by micro-electronics. A visual representation of these sound-waves ripple outward, across the triangles at 1/100th the speed of sound.”
The Opening Day Celebration will be Saturday, September 21 from 1 – 4 p.m., including performances at 2 p.m. by Robbie Wilde (thatDEAFdj) and Briana Johnson (Beautiful the Artist). Video/Listening booths will be active. Grab some headphones and join the “silent disco” with music by Robbie Wilde and equipment provided by Black Out Experience. ASL/BASL interpreters provided by the SOS Agency. Additional support provided by the Georgia Center of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
Robbie Wilde, Atlanta, @robbiewildeofficial
Briana Johnson, Atlanta, @beautifultheartist
Myles de Bastion, Portland, @mylesdebastion
Elizabeth Mayton, Atlanta, @elizabethmaytonart
Chris Fonseca, London, @itschrisfonseca
Kassandra Wedel, Munich, @kasscalldance
Antoine Hunter of Urban Jazz Dance Co., San Francisco, @thegreatdancerah
Zahna Simon of Urban Jazz Dance Co., San Francisco, @deafenpointe
This exhibition is co-curated by Aleatha Lindsay, Founding Director of the Ikouii Creative and Elizabeth Peterson Jennings, Director of the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art.
This program is supported in part by Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. Georgia Council for the Arts also receives support from its partner agency – the National Endowment for the Arts.