The EyeWriter
Zach Lieberman, James Powderly, Tony Quan, Evan Roth, Chris Sugrue (US) and Theo Watson (UK)
Golden Nica Interactive Art
“The EyeWriter” enables people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease) to engage in creative activities by just using their eyes, the only body part that’s not paralyzed by this degenerative nerve disorder. Tony Quan, an artist afflicted with ALS, can now draw tags from his hospital bed. These works can then be applied to the cityscape or rendered in India ink by various output devices. Developed by an international network of experts, this system attests to what a collaborative alliance can accomplish nowadays.
