Category: Art

A September of Multisensory Art 1: Finnegan Shannon at Pioneer Works, Frame by Frame!

Below are a series of frames from a video I took at the opening of “There’s no me without you,” Finnegan Shannon’s show at Pioneer Works on September 11, 2026. Ariana Martinez’s delightfully tactile artworks are traveling along Finnegan’s conveyer belt for us to interact with. We were among the first to arrive. I excitedly started picking objects up and… Read more

Blindness as Creative Force – Fall 2026 News & Events

Dear readers, After relying on a barely accessible newsletter platform for almost a decade, I’ve decided to turn my jam-packed newsletters with carefully curated image descriptions into seasonal round-up posts at DrMLGodin.com and AromaticaPoetica.com, and just send out a simple, text-based email blast to alert readers. So here’s the Fall 2026 Blindness as Creative Force Newsletter! Please reach out and… Read more

Blind Visionscapes: Making an AI Model with Handmade Datasets at SFPC

I went into Handmade Datasets wanting to build an image-description generator and wound up trying to train a machine to hallucinate blind visionscapes. Handmade Datasets My increasing reliance on AI for my ongoing photography project made me curious to know more. I guest-lectured at the School for Poetic Computation years ago, and I’d been thinking that if I were to… Read more

Color by Smells – DrMLGodin & Aromatica Poetica June 2026 Newsletter

This season’s newsletter features: Carnegie Hall, NYPL surprises, a petri dish of emotions and a museum of smells plus pencils, perfumes, and blue, blue, blue… Image description: Three cyan-blue botanical photograms stand side by side like specimens suspended between science and dream. Pale seaweed-like forms bloom outward in delicate white silhouettes, their branching fronds glowing against the deep blue ground… Read more

Black Hole Sonification by Blind Physicist Kyle Keane at reSOUND New York

I was invited  by accessibility designer  Lauren Race–who took the fabulous above photo of myself and Gio Brignoni!–to an after-hours event at reSOUND New York. Dr. Kyle Keane., a blind physicist and assistive tech lecturer at the University of Bristol translated the energy surrounding a black hole into sound frequencies that fill the “ECHO” exhibit. It was super cool to… Read more

“100 Years of Blindness: A Scented Performance-Lecture on Photography” – April 15!

After a sold-out performance on March 1, I’m delighted to announce a second chance to experience “100 years of Blindness: A Scented Performance Lecture on Photography” on April 15, 7pm, at Olfactory Art Keller, NYC! Buy tickets! What happens when we explore photography without sight? In this experimental performance lecture, blind author and artist Dr. M. Leona Godin conjures five… Read more