Blind Creations Conference

The talk

1. What if we tried more?: A proposal for the field of accessibility in cultural spaces 22 min · Audio
2. Depictions of guide dogs and their owners in literature, visual art and film 21 min · Audio
3. The innovations of Frank H. Hall 23 min · Audio
4. Barocco Blindness : music, poetry and philosophy in early-modern France 20 min · Audio
5. Borges's Aesthetic of Blindness: The Dialectic of the Ideal and the Experiential 24 min · Audio
6. Colours of Touch: A Graphic Design Experience for Blind People 22 min · Audio
7. Italian Blind Authors and the perception of their disability in the Early Modern Age 19 min · Audio
8. The Tactile Comic: A Reading of Philipp Meyer's Life 20 min · Audio
9. Against the Pollution of the Eye: Jacques Lusseyran's Phenomenology of Pure Inner Vision 1 h 12 min · Audio
10. How did music change the course of history for the Blind? 22 min · Audio
11. Touching Text: To The Lighthouse as tactile art in Cardiff Bay 27 min · Audio
12. Erinna sculpture 13 min · Audio
13. Memory and the Mind's Eye: Ecphrasis in Il Mambriano of Francesco Cieco da Ferrara 33 min · Audio
14. An ecological approach to audio description 18 min · Audio
15. L'émergence d'un nouveau type de personnage(s) aveugle(s) dans la fiction 23 min · Audio
16. Exploring the role of eTextiles designed by blind and visual impaired users within cultural space 24 min · Audio
17. Foregrounding the Amanuensis: Dictation, Interdependence, Epistemology 17 min · Audio
18. Songs, prayers and business: blind people in Spain (15th-18th centuries) 21 min · Audio
19. The limits and possibilities of audio describing silent film 20 min · Audio
20. Aesthetic Accessibility and Tactile Images of Works of Art 19 min · Audio
21. Shape of Content: Exploring Japanese Traditional Design through Touch 16 min · Audio
22. Art in Everyday Objects: Resistance in the Making 19 min · Audio
23. An enquiry into passive inclusion and unreachable artworks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 21 min · Audio
24. Creativity versus Respectability: A contest between blind aspirations and the values of philanthropic interventionists in Victorian and Edwardian Scotland 25 min · Audio
25. "Books are asked for by the loudest shouter": the challenges of reading creatively with a limited library 22 min · Audio
26. Blind Creations Welcome and Introduction 14 min · Audio
27. Blindness writing: an examination of triple narrative positions in Ved Mehta's The Continent of Blind Culture 21 min · Audio
28. Art and Blindness: Three Lives Reinvented 20 min · Audio
29. Tactile Stave Music 24 min · Audio
30. A History of "Blindness and the Arts" in Japan: Memories and the Power of Touch 40 min · Audio
31. Blind Self-Portraits 21 min · Audio
32. Blind Self-Portraits 53 min · Audio
33. The Sacred Lack of Vision: Blindness of Saints and their Clients in the Later Middle Ages 21 min · Audio
34. Art Experiences Using Haptices on the Body 22 min · Audio
35. Blindness or Femininity, that is the question: the young blind girl in The Two Orphans, a popular novel by Adolphe d'Ennery (1887-1889) 14 min · Audio
36. Staring into the open: Towards a cosmopolitical understanding of blindness, art and society 28 min · Audio
37. Cecile Douard (1866-1941): Impressions d'une seconde vie 21 min · Audio
38. Near Poetry, Beyond Explanation: Toward Verbal Descriptions with Inspiration 18 min · Audio
39. Blind Asylums: Places of Creative Resistance 22 min · Audio
40. Seeing through Art: Blind Visitors and the Museum Experience 26 min · Audio
41. Inventive Louis Braille 24 min · Audio
42. Mis-leadings: Guide Dogs and the Blind in Medieval Culture 23 min · Audio
43. Prairie Tales: Mary Ingalls and the Invention of a 19th Century Super Crip 35 min · Audio
44. The life and times of the composer, musician, performer, teacher, Maria-Theresia Von Paradis 12 min · Audio
45. Blind musicians and the making of epic poetry in Medieval Japan 21 min · Audio
46. Research WITH: for a world more dense with narratives and sensorialities 25 min · Audio
47. Viktor Löwenfeld and Tactility 16 min · Audio
48. RHUL Picture Gallery audio descriptions 50 min · Audio
49. Including and Empowering the Blind: The Case of Slovenian Museums and Art Galleries 26 min · Audio
50. Blindness and Limited Narrative Omniscience in Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage 19 min · Audio
51. Corporal workshop to awaken presences at the museum 22 min · Audio
52. Intersections: Objectification, Visual Impairments and Gender in Contemporary Cinema from China and Hong Kong 21 min · Audio
53. Visual literacy and the history of the self: an option? 20 min · Audio
54. An Enlightened Journey: Taha Husayn 19 min · Audio
55. Talking Books and Censorship 24 min · Audio
56. Inclusive descriptions of art works at Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery 18 min · Audio
57. What's in a Name?: The Dangers and Delights of Multimodal Reading 22 min · Audio
58. "The Blind guiding the Seeing": the 'blind spots' of film history 23 min · Audio
59. Against Seeing: Jorge Luis Borges' Literary Imagination 23 min · Audio
60. Multi-sensory books created for and by blind children 15 min · Audio
61. The representation of blindness in Maeterlinck's theatre play De blinden and Johan van der Keuken's documentary Herman Slobbe: Blind kind II 19 min · Audio
62. Jacques Lusseyran: Le héros aveugle de la résistance française 1 h 7 min · Audio