E Y - : Vision Loss, Word-images, Retina Prints, Seeing Machines

Elizabeth Goldring is a visually challenged artist and poet. As Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, she collaborates with MIT and Harvard engineers, scientists, physicians, designers and students to create seeing tools and visual experiences for herself and others like her with severe vision loss due to macular degeneration or other diseases of the cornea, retina, and lens. Recently, she and her Vision Group have developed an affordable, portable, easy-to-use “seeing machine camera” prototype. At MIT she has held positions as exhibitions and projects director, CAVS; lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning; and acting co-director, CAVS.

To communicate her periods of blindness and disintegrating sight Goldring has published three books of poetry and contributed to several poetry anthologies. She has also exhibited interactive Eye/Sight installations, internationally and created and exhibited her Retina Prints and Visual Language for the Blind.