[Art_beyond_sight_theory_and_research] MoMa, Installation art, flag, web accessibility, Insights

[Lisa Yayla]

Blink: the viewer as blind man in installation art.(Features)
From: Art Journal Date: December 22, 2007 Author: Blocker, Jane
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-173926057.html


excerpt of blogg
Blink: The Viewer as Blind Man in Installation Art is written to examine 
a new concept that has entered the Contemporary Art scene; Displayed to 
show various audiences the effects of blindness, eyesight, and 
simultaneous contrast in general. Throughout the article, Blink: The 
Viewer as Blind Man in Installation Art, Jane Blocker of “art journal” 
reviews a series of installation works that have been created to effect 
the audience’s senses, mainly their eyesight.
http://jenniferoconnell.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/simulation-of-blindness/

excerpt
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/nyregion/22bigcity.html?ref=arts&pagewanted=print
Seeing MoMA’s Sculptures With a Distinctive Tool: Fingers

In their baseball caps and Timberlands, the five Tibetan young people 
giggling in the sculpture garden of the Museum of Modern Art on 
Wednesday might have been members of some kind of teen tour or youth 
group from abroad, chatting their way through yet another art museum, 
half-oblivious to its contents.

That they were taking nothing for granted, however, became apparent when 
their museum guide handed each of them a pair of thin polyethylene 
gloves. Kyila, 24, said nothing, but put her gloved hands together 
gently as if in silent prayer, testing the sensation. Sonam Bhumtso, a 
16-year-old with a ponytail, laughed with delight as she put hers on. 
“It feels very nice,” she said. “And the sound!” She scrunched her hands 
and opened them several times, enjoying the subtle crackling.


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Kansan's Braille flag to be placed in Arlington cemetery

When the Hutchinson man died 10 years ago at the age of 82, his wife 
said it was too bad that he couldn't see the flag in his final years.

Those words so stuck with his son, Randolph Cabral, that he designed a 
Braille flag. The tactile flag informs the blind of the flag's colors, 
along with the 13 stripes and 50 stars.

This spring, his bronze Braille flag will be formally dedicated at 
Arlington National Cemetery as a tribute to the nation's blind veterans 
and other Americans without sight.
http://www.hdnews.net/Print/k1044-BC-KS-BrailleFlag-02-25-0434

exhibition information
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080223/NEWS02/802230331/1007
Gwen Evans, a blind artist who shows that art is in the hands of the 
beholder, not the eyes. Artists' Mediums, Williston. 11 a.m.-1.p.m. 
Free. 879-1236.

links
Web Accessibility Guidelines and Tools
http://build.exclusiveconcepts.com/WUD-Blog/?p=30

http://cwimedia.blogspot.com/2008/01/who-can-hear-your-web-site.html

article excerpt
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/2415-10877_11-164199.html
Apple
Universal Access improvements
Leopard includes bolstered accessibility features, too. Besides adding a 
new voice that speaks more naturally at a faster pace, support has been 
added for Braille displays and note-taking devices. Further, voice-over 
commands can now be associated with numeric keypad keys using NumPad 
Commander.

Apple's VoiceOver feature now accentuates "hot spots" by monitoring for 
active windows and notifying users (via sound clues) whenever 
notifications or alerts are displayed on screen. VoiceOver also assists 
visually impaired users in navigating applications and onscreen menus.

Other accessibility improvements include expanded closed-captioning 
support within QuickTime, more applications (including iChat) that 
"speak" on screen text and VoiceOver support for .Mac online Internet 
and e-mail accounts.

web site
The LightHouse presents the 18th annual

INSIGHTS 2007
A national juried art exhibition of works by blind and visually impaired 
artists

http://www.lighthouse-sf.org/activities/insights/Insights2007.php

excerpt
http://favoritewallart.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/colors-of-motivation/
blogg
Paul Leasure, the artist who created this fabulous artwork is color 
blind since birth! He has carefully developed his own special and 
scientific techniques to render his colors accurately.

He has employed the use of science by learning the spectral reflectance 
values of each of his paints.