by Ryan Seslow | Jun 18, 2018 | Animation, Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Digital Art, GIF, News, Useful Articles / Essays |
Hearing aids are tools, and in a lot of circumstances they are incredibly helpful. I could make a long list about the pros of hearing aids and will do so soon. However, in just as many circumstances they are consistently utterly frustrating, limited, over-stated in...
by Ryan Seslow | Jun 15, 2018 | Animation, Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Digital Art, NET ART, News, Teaching, Useful Articles / Essays |
I love the immediacy of taking photos with my iPhone and using them directly as inspiration for new digital art works. The ability to shoot, capture and apply one’s own visual references in immediacy continues to fuel my desires as a media artist. In my latest...
by Ryan Seslow | Jun 13, 2018 | Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Digital Art, NET ART, News, Teaching |
I’m a late bloomer, always have been, it’s not a bad thing. I have learned on my journey (many times, the hard way) sometimes there is simply a “timing” to all things beyond our control. No matter how hard we work on it or how much we attempt to manifest. Timing plays...
by Ryan Seslow | Jun 7, 2018 | Art, News, Painting, Street Art & Graffiti |
Got a nice jump on my new mural for the 2018 Welling Court Mural Project yesterday. I said goodbye to the old piece as I buffed it. My process has no sketch or plan. I work from impulses, feelings and the spontaneity of the moment. The lines seem to know what to do. I...
by Ryan Seslow | Jun 4, 2018 | Animation, Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Digital Art, Exhibition, GIF, News, Useful Articles / Essays |
Communicating My Deaf & Hard of Hearing Self – Part 1 Welcome to my first series of art works produced examining and identifying as a deaf and hard of hearing person. It has been a long road. This body of work is the first in a multi-part series with supporting...
by Ryan Seslow | Jun 4, 2018 | Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Digital Art, News, Useful Articles / Essays |
The Non-Auditory Sensory Other I learned how to draw at an early age because I needed to see what I couldn’t hear. I learned how to “see” really fast. I learned how to draw the contour lines of objects, faces, bodies and things with my eyes. They were maps and points...
by Ryan Seslow | May 30, 2018 | Animation, Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Digital Art, GIF, News, Useful Articles / Essays |
Fear Installed. Through the eyes of a child, seeing unaware of the missing sounds. A series of repetitive actions and the behaviors observed, the rituals of the alphas. An acute visual awareness to the reactions of those involved, activating simultaneous perceptual...
by Ryan Seslow | May 17, 2018 | Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, News, Useful Articles / Essays |
I have story for you, please read this entire passage. I was reflecting last night on my progress learning ASL and taking ownership of my past. I’m really proud of myself. I’m proud to identity as a deaf and hard of hearing person on this planet. I want to connect...
by Ryan Seslow | May 17, 2018 | Animation, Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, GIF, News, Useful Articles / Essays |
“The 1970s Hearing Test Art Machine Hacker” Hearing test machine hacking. It sounds funny, but that’s what I did. I recently learned that my Mom also did the same thing almost 30 years before. As we know, today’s technology has come a long long way from the 1970s.....
by Ryan Seslow | May 14, 2018 | Animation, Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, GIF, News, Useful Articles / Essays |
The More I Missed, The More I Made.. I am overcoming a lot of my fears by directly putting myself in public positions to have to talk about how hearing loss and being deaf has affected my life. As a college professor (yep, for 14.5 years now) I have to be in front of...
