[accessibleimage] Re: dissemination of aesthetics course.

Hi Chris,

          thanks for getting back to me. I'm inclined to agree that an online course would be the most feasible option. As for your offer to draw a couple of pictures for me -- it would be a huge help. If you can find the time, and are happy with the result, I woild welcome the opportunity to include the pictures in my book. Don't feel as though you have to rush -- I have just signed the book contract, so still have about three months before submitting a print-ready copy. If you felt inspired to draw a face -- your own or somebody else's, and perhaps a place, it would really fit in with what I have written. Perhaps we can discuss it in greater detail a bit further down the line. Thanks so much for your offer of help,

                                                       David.

From: "Chris Hofstader" <chris.hofstader@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 05:36:47 -0500

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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