Monday Special Blend
Monday September 2nd, 2024 with Nathanael Newton & Maria Hawkins
A Tactile Colour System for Members of the Blind Community Interview with Dr. Hsin-Yi Chao & Dr. John Kennedy
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| Interview with:
Hsin-Yi Chao Assistant Professor National Chung Hsing University Program of Digital Humanities and Creative Industries and Graduate Institute of Library and Information Science Taichung, Taiwan Dr. John Kennedy Professor Emeritus, Psychology University of Toronto Fields of Study: Perception, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Video version: https://youtu.be/VANZf4vZvws Dr. Hsin-Yi Chao is an assistant professor in the Cultural and Creative Industry Program at National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan. She finished a Master of Fine Arts degree at the National Taipei University of Education, and an Architecture Ph.D. at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. Dr. Chao continued post-doctoral research in the Psychology graduate school of the University of Toronto, and founded a national non-profit organization called Taiwan Art Beyond Vision Association in 2014. She then changed her position from the 10-year visual art teacher at a primary school to being a curator working on accessible technology and exhibitions with multi-sensory exhibits at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts for 6 years. Dr. Chao focuses her studies on non-visual art educational theory and practice, accessible technology application, universal display design, art audio description, and tactile spatial cognition research in the areas of special education, psychology, museums and art to promote the equal right of art education for the visually impaired. ------ Guest Bio: Dr. John Kennedy ------ There is information on John Kennedy's work at these links: https://www.psych.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/john-kennedy https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~kennedy/ https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~kennedy/cv.html Here's a quote from John that is very relevant to Hsin-Yi's work: "We have a centre in the brain; it might be up here at the top, the end wall of the human body. You can reach that centre coming in through touch, you can also reach it coming in through vision, and if you don't have vision you can still reach it coming in through touch. That centre deals with space, and shape, and form. Often sighted people say, I'm imagining how things look. Half the time what they're really doing is imagining the space of things, the form of things. They're spatializing, not visualizing, and that spatializing you can do if you're blind or you can do it if you're sighted. It isn't visioning things, it's spatializing things in your mind. And blind people are curious about the whole history of the world and the whole history of art. We can make that available to blind people who have that curiosity." |
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