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Artist Talk: A Conversation about Blindness and Art
A Conversation about Blindness and Art
Featuring special guests: Dr. Georgina Kleege and artist Emilie Louise Gossiaux
Most discourse about “disability and the arts” focuses on access, and much less about participation and inclusion. In the field of blindness, the main tool for access accommodations is the use of “audio description” (AD). In this unique conversation between two visually impaired artists/consumers of art, we hope to go beyond using AD as *simply* an accommodation, and seek to push the boundaries around interactive and subjective/creative description. When blind people participate in the creation of audio descriptions, can we create new genres of art? Can their haptic insights be broadly useful to all museum patrons? Come join us for this exciting conversation!
There will be stimulating conversation, ad hoc, and interactive audio description in the exhibit with our special guests, and light refreshments served afterward.