by Ryan Seslow | Oct 5, 2018 | Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Digital Art, GIF, News, Useful Articles / Essays |
The technology for closed-captioning television & video content has been available since 1972, but in 2018 we still have a long way to go in making high quality accurate captioning accessible for all. I made this static image and then the animations below...
by Ryan Seslow | Sep 30, 2018 | Animation, Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Digital Art, GIF, News, Teaching, Useful Articles / Essays |
Deaf Awareness Month 2018 – Animated Expressions & More Today is the last day of Deaf awareness month 2018. I have learned so much and met some really amazing people! (I will write a full re-cap on this soon) The hashtags for Deaf Awareness Month on both...
by Ryan Seslow | Sep 5, 2018 | Animation, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Digital Art, GIF, News, Teaching, Useful Articles / Essays |
I have to say, Im super excited to be back teaching again! Fall semester 2018, Im blessed to be teaching simultaneously between 4 colleges in NYC and the surrounding area. I have a particular love for teaching CT101 at York College. CT101 is short for Communication...
by Ryan Seslow | Sep 1, 2018 | Animation, Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, GIF, News, Teaching |
September is National Deaf Awareness Month How will you contribute? Im going to be practicing ASL and sharing the sign language alphabet with all of my hearing students (Im a college professor here in nyc). Im also going to make a series of new animations (like this...
by Ryan Seslow | Jul 18, 2018 | Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Digital Art, GIF, News, Useful Articles / Essays |
I work predominantly with the hearing world in both public city and private colleges. Strangely, after many years of college teaching I have never once had a Deaf or Hard of Hearing student. I find this statistic perplexing and very curious. Were there people like...
by Ryan Seslow | Jun 30, 2018 | Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Digital Art, GIF, News, Teaching, Useful Articles / Essays |
Nothing happens overnight. Inner and outer life changes are really a sum total of activating trigger points that disguise themselves as people, places, situations and occurrences. I keep reminding myself. We can only speak and communicate from own experiences and then...
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 4, 2018 | Animation, Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Digital Art, Exhibition, GIF, News, Useful Articles / Essays |
(Click the images above to activate the gallery) Communicating My Deaf & Hard of Hearing Self 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...
