[accessibleimage] Re: dissemination of aesthetics course.

David,
 
On question 1, I would go with an online course.  It is often difficult to
find enough blinks in the same place to warrant offering a course but those
of us online keep growing in population daily.
 
2.  I posted an article yesterday about a blind artist.  It ran in the Globe
and it sounded pretty fascinating.  I could draw a couple of pictures for
you but my drawing skills were poor when I could see and probably worse
today.

  _____  

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Subject: [accessibleimage] dissemination of aesthetics course.



Hello to everybody,

Faced with two problems, I have decided to float them on the list to see if
anybody can help:

1) I am curently submitting an assembled curriculum for an aesthetics course
for blind people to a third level institution as part of a postdoctoral
fellowship application. The course essentially breaks down the aesthetetic
experience, as it has traditionally been described and theorized, into
several individual components, and tries to filter these components through
the lived aesthetic experiences of different blind people. It also examines
these components from a variety of perspectives, ranging from cultural
anthropology to perceptual psychology, from contemporary cultural theory to
art education. The course is designed to supplement the variety of art
courses that are available to the blind and visually impaired, by fostering
a capacity for analytic reflection on various aspects of the experience of
aesthetic reception. I am looking for advice on the best way to make the
course available to blind and visually impaired people who are interested in
exploring the (dis)continuities between their own aesthetic experiences and
traditional accounts of the encounter with a site of beauty. A large portion
of the course will be devised by means of discussion forums with groups of
blind students, and by the distribution of embossed questionnaires. I am
uncertain about how to most effectively disseminate the course once it is
completed. Can anybody think of a suitable medium?

2) My second query relates to a book of mine that is being published later
this year. The book explores the aesthetic experiences of blind people, and
at a certain juncture I discuss the changes undergone by the conception of
faces and places, harboured by the non-congenitally blind, as time passes. I
am discussing with my editor the possibility of featuring drawings of faces
and places by blind people. I am wondering if anybody knows of a blind
person who has drawn such pictures, and who wouldn't mind his/her work being
published in the book?

If anybody can advise me in relation to either of the questions, I would be
a big help.

                         Take care,

                                        David Feeney.

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