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UMOCA presents a screening of Invisible Machines, followed by a conversation with director Yelena Gluzman. The event is organized by UMOCA Artist-in-Residence Steven Chodoriwsky as part of his ongoing research during his residency at the museum.
This experimental ethnographic film follows captioners who use stenotype machines to transcribe speech in real time for d/Deaf students. By disrupting its own audio, the film draws attention to the gaps and negotiations that shape acts of translation.
Foregrounding the relationship between captioner and student, Invisible Machines considers what is at stake in real-time access—and what is lost as human captioning is replaced by automated speech-to-text.
About the Director
Yelena Gluzman is an interdisciplinary scholar, experimental theater director, and filmmaker. Her work engages feminist science and technology studies, critical disability studies, and performance as research. She is a founding editor of Ugly Duckling Presse and teaches in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta.