Andy Slater is a Chicago-based media artist, sound designer, teaching artist, and disability advocate. He is the founder of the Society of Visually Impaired Sound Artists and director of the Sound As Sight accessible field recording project. Slater was acknowledged for his art by the New York Times in their article, “28 Ways To Learn About Disability Culture.” Slater teaches at the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology and is a member of the Atlantic Center for the Arts’ Young Sound Seekers advisory board. He has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, and the Flux Factory in New York. His recent album, Unseen Reheard (No Index records), epitomizes the current tangent of his artistic practice.

Sound as sight: En Route: Jackson transfer, 2020
Binaural sound recording installed with accompanying wall text
Dimensions variable

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