[Art_beyond_sight_learning_tools] Radio program with Dr. John Kennedy about Esref Armagan

[Lisa Yayla]

Hi,
Forwarding this link.
Wonderful program!
Regards,
Lisa

Radio program, part 2 is with Dr. Kennedy 

http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2005/200502/20050218.html

Canadian Psychologist - The Art of Blindness
 Esref Armagan's painting have caused quite a stir in the
science world. Mr. Armagan
recently traveled to the United States where scientists from
Boston University and
Harvard put the painter through a number of tests to better
understand how a blind man
can paint realistic compositions of things he's never seen.

In our Toronto studio we were joined by one of the
researchers who conducted tests on
 the artist. Dr. John Kennedy is a professor of psychology
at the University of Toronto. He
 has spent a career examining art from the perspective of
the blind and he's the author of
 Drawing and the Blind. 


Blind Technologies

 Esref Armagan is on the cutting edge of what science is
learning about perception and
blindness. But for years now, science has been steadily
applying what it is learning
about blindness and the brain to develop remarkable new
technologies. 

 Things like machines that let the blind "see" through their
ears, their fingers and even
 their tongues. Some of these hi-tech advances are being
worked on at the University of
Montreal. That's where Maur