Community Meeting (November 7, 2018): Seeing with Other Eyes
Description
Presenters: Lisa Liskovoi
Recapping a photography exhibit by and for the visually impaired at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Notes
An Imagine Conceptual project carried out by Movimento de Expressao Fotografica (Movement of Photographic Expression, MFF)
to promote artistic production,...
Partnered people with blindness and other forms of visual impairment with relevant institutions
The institutions weren't specified
Participants ranged in age from 7 to 78
exposed to various aesthetic movements through art history and descriptions of works, both through touch and descriptions
asked to describe images that occurred to them as a consequence around different themes
asked to photographically produce the images they described
the creators of the photographs took an active role in creating them
Artwork
works were presented through images, audio descriptions, and touch
for each piece the original photo is shown along with a tactile version overplayed over the photograph
the material of the tactile version is felt
there is some value mapping for brightness with depth, but additional textures added for example hatched lines to indicate material of a sweater in the image