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.

Exhibit

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