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Abstract
How can we make visual art accessible for audiences with visual impairment and blindness? Can audio description help blind and visually impaired (BVI) audiences to understand and experience art? Which ingredients must AD contain to evoke and stimulate the creation of vivid internal mental images? Can AD engage the target audiences and contribute to their aesthetic experience and enjoyment? What other means are there to enhance inclusion and immersion? The paper focuses on how audio description can evoke and stimulate the creation of vivid internal images via verbal descriptions of art and thereby contribute to an embodied aesthetic experience for the BVI audiences. It introduces research on image perception, image description, and mental imagery, relevant for audio description; summarise guidelines and recommendations for audio description of art; and offers authentic examples of AD of art tailored for the target audiences. The paper underlines the importance of reception studies and discusses the issue of inclusion and multi-sensory experiences.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-19 |
Journal | Lund University Cognitive Studies |
Issue number | 181 |
Publication status | Published - 2021 Aug 30 |
Event | Exploring visual art auditively. Art, language, and sounds in culture and museums - Inter Arts Center, digital event, Malmö, Sweden Duration: 2021 May 20 → 2021 May 21 https://www.konstnarliga.lu.se/evenemang/exploring-visual-art-auditively-art-language-and-sounds-museums-and-culture |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Communication Studies
- Visual Arts
- Other Humanities not elsewhere specified
Keywords
- visual art
- accessibility
- audio description
- audio guide
- mental images
- aesthetic experience
- blind and visually impaired audiences
- embodiment
- multi-sensory experience
- image perception
- image description
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Dive into the research topics of 'Audio Description of Art: The Role of Mental Imagery and Embodiment'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.Projects
- 5 Finished
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How the blind audience receive and experience audio descriptions of visual events
Holsanova, J., Johansson, R. & Lyberg Åhlander, V.
2019/12/01 → 2021/12/31
Project: Research
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ADACOM: Audio description for accessible communication/ Syntolkning för tillgänglig kommunikation
Holsanova, J., Johansson, R., Lyberg Åhlander, V., Lindgren, M. & Mårtensson, J.
2019/01/01 → 2022/06/30
Project: Research
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Activities
- 2 Presentation
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Audio description of art: The role of mental imagery and embodied cognition
Jana Holsanova (Invited speaker)
2021 May 20Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
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Forskning och utveckling inom området bildbeskrivning
Jana Holsanova (Invited speaker)
2021 May 27Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation