From fnugg at online.no Fri Oct 17 06:49:05 2014 From: fnugg at online.no (fnugg at online.no) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 08:49:05 +0200 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] Space camp, 3D maps, stores Message-ID: <5440BBE1.403@online.no> Braille labels, audible scanners will help visually impaired B.C. customers shop for food "A hand-held scanner can also be used to read the names of items, while a braille map at the entrance can help blind clients orient themselves to the store layout." http://www.theprovince.com/health/Braille+labels+audible+scanners+will+help+visually+impaired+customers+shop+food/10292825/story.html Scientists Convert Hubble Telescope Pictures to Tactile 3-D for Visually Impaired *With the objective of revolutionizing astronomy education, the Space Telescope Science Institute researchers, Antonella Nota and Carol Christian, convert Hubble Space Telescope pictures into tactile 3-D images using 3D printers in order to help visually impaired people to explore space objects.* http://www.azom.com/news.aspx?newsID=42501 Japan Prepares to Make 3D Printed Topographic Maps Available for the Blind http://3dprint.com/16574/japan-3d-printed-maps-blind/ Maps created with 3-D printers to help visually impaired http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201409230007 Visually Impaired Week at Alabama's "Space Camp" http://www.wtvy.com/news/headlines/Visually-Impaired-Week-at-Alabamas-Space-Camp-277197731.html Audio description gives visually impaired a new movie experience http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/audio-description-gives-visually-impaired-a-new-movie-experience-20140910-10ewzb.html From Lisa.Yayla at statped.no Mon Oct 27 05:44:43 2014 From: Lisa.Yayla at statped.no (Lisa Yayla) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 06:44:43 +0100 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] The ABS Telephone Crash Course begins at 8:30 a.m Message-ID: Hi, The ABS Telephone Crash Course begins at 8:30 a.m (Est)! Scheldule Monday, October 27, 2014 The ABS Telephone Crash Course begins at 8:30 a.m. and ends at 3:30 pm. (Note: All times given are Eastern Daylight Time.) Feel free to participate in one, a few, or all sessions. Toll free Number: +1-855-282-6330; Conference code: 730 404 894 Click here for Global Call-in numbers Webinar Site: artbeyondsight.webex.com 8:30-9:30 am Welcome: Conversation with Director of Going Blind Join us for an informative discussion of Going Blind, a unique documentary film that increases public awareness of sight loss and low vision issues profoundly affecting the lives of an increasing number of people around the world. Discussion Leader: Isaac Zablocki, Director and Co-founder of ReelAbilities: NY Disabilities Film Festival Speaker: Joe Lovett, Director of film Going Blind (Lovett Productions) 9:30-10:30 am The View from Europe The topics to be discussed will cover multi modalism in European museums and a report on global technology. Moderator: Elisabeth Axel, President and Founder of Art Beyond Sight Speakers: Anne Hornsby, Director, Mind's Eye Description Services, www.mindseyedescription.co.uk; Dr. Simon Hayhoe, FBCS, FRSA, Senior Lecturer, Department of Childhood Studies; and Joseph Llop 10:30-11:30 am Artists Making Accessible Art The speakers will be sharing their experiences and insights on the challenges, rewards, and realities of their lives as artists. Speakers: Rosalyn Driscoll and Ann Cunningham, tactile/visual artist, art teacher at the Colorado Center for the Blind since 1999, and founder of the nascent National Tactile Arts Center in Denver, Colorado. 11:30 am-12:30 pm Accessibility Programs in Small Museums (Specifically focused around audiences of people who are blind or have low vision) Collaborating on a paper on this topic, the speakers, all of whom hosted focus groups, will discuss specifics of how their unique institutions addressed this issue by adding to and/or expanding their programming after the experience. By sharing their approaches and program goals they hope to help other organizations develop a plan to initiate their own accessibility goals. Moderator: Deborah Randolph, Curator of Education at Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Speakers: Gretchen Henrich, Director of the Interpretive Education Division at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West; Emily Wolverton, Museum Services Manager and Touch Tours Coordinator at The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures in Tucson, AZ; Felice Cleveland, Director of Education, Mattress Factory 12:30-1:30 pm Museum Practices: New Strategies and Approaches The topics to be discussed will cover new strategies and approaches in museums and other cultural institutions. Discussion Leader: Joel Snyder, PhD., Author of The Visual Made Verbal: A Comprehensive Training Manual and Guide to the History and Applications of Audio Description, President, Audio Description Associates, LLC Speakers: Debra Hegstrom, Senior Educator, Docent Program, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Alvaro Alvarito, Art Beyond Sight 1:30 pm-2:30 pm Inclusive Practices The speakers will discuss past inclusive practices incorporated in the exhibits and programming activities of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. (Note: The museum's work in inclusive practices is currently "suspended" as it revises its exhibits/programming activities.) Speakers: Elisabeth Axel President and Founder of Art Beyond Sight, Judith A. Kirk, Assistant Director, Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Judy Schmeidler 2:30 pm-3:30 pm Clinic for Museum Website Accessibility Discussion will focus on general web accessibility principles. Examples of online experiences of individuals with disabilities will be shared, and tips on how participants can improve the accessibility of their own web content will be provided. Discussion Leader: Jonathan Whiting, Director of Training & Evaluation, WebAIM Speakers: Glenda Sims and Sharron Rush, Co-founder, Executive Director, Knowbility.org http://www.absawarenessmonth.org/crash-course-schedule/ -Scanned by Exchange Hosted Services- From Lisa.Yayla at statped.no Mon Oct 27 06:08:03 2014 From: Lisa.Yayla at statped.no (Lisa Yayla) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 07:08:03 +0100 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] audio description Norwegian TV Message-ID: The Norwegian National Television (NRK) has begun sending films with audio description. The first is a Norwegian produced thriller called Babycall. http://nrkbeta.no/2014/10/24/tv-drama-blir-radiotv/ Here?s a (mostly) google translation of the text: Saturday October 25, we will send one of them first audio described films in Norway. This is actually an offer to the blind, but the TV-program makes a superb radio program. Audio description means that some movie or television programs receive an supplemental audio: In the dialog pause a voice explains the most important visual elements in the image. The service is basically meant for severely vision impaired and blind, but is fine for everyone else as well. Many TV programs do quite well without pictures. NRK has sent the sound of the evening news on the radio channel NRK Always News, for many years. The film we send Saturday's horror movie Baby Call by P?l Sletaune from 2011. You find Trailer and Review of Birger Vestmo in Film Police. From 2015 NRK will audio describe all major own produced drama series, to date: Mammon 2 and Advent calendar 2016. We are also going to buy into Norwegian films with visual interpreters. The audio described film will be broadcasted on national TV (network and apps). The movie with the original soundtrack will be sent in the usual TV, in this case NRK1 Saturday at 23:15. NRK's ??new accessibility boss Siri Antonsen is responsible for visual interpretation . Would you like to right how audio description sounds? And a bit more about Norway at the ABS blog site: Access Across the Globe: http://www.absawarenessmonth.org/2014/10/21/access-across-the-globe-statped-alt-in-oslo-norway-supports-academic-achievement-with-accessible-images/ Blog Stories from the Field http://www.absawarenessmonth.org/stories-from-the-field/ Best regards, Lisa -Scanned by Exchange Hosted Services- From fnugg at online.no Thu Nov 13 10:26:50 2014 From: fnugg at online.no (fnugg at online.no) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:26:50 +0100 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] Sculptors, 3D Message-ID: <5464876A.7080100@online.no> The blind sculptor who thinks everyone should touch art A blind Italian sculptor thinks people should have the right to touch art, though most exhibitions forbid it. Felice Tagliaferri has a personal motto: "you are forbidden not to touch". It's about making art inclusive to everyone through the use of all five senses and stems from an incident which started a mini revolution. http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-ouch-29837275 Neither blindness nor hand injuries deter sculptor Retirement is not a word in the vocabulary of internationally renowned Native American sculptor Michael Naranjo. ?What am I going to do if I retire?? the 70-year-old Naranjo asked rhetorically. ?I am trying to do less but it?s hard to do less because this is what I do.? http://www.abqjournal.com/493672/entertainment/no-obstacle-too-large-for-sculptor.html 3D-EYE Seeks to Create 3D Models of Artistic Masterpieces for the Visually Impaired http://3dprint.com/23715/3d-eye-greek-startup-blind-art/ From fnugg at online.no Thu Nov 13 10:51:01 2014 From: fnugg at online.no (fnugg at online.no) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:51:01 +0100 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] exhibitions, actor Message-ID: <54648D15.1050104@online.no> Local artists hosting show at the civic center *LAKE JACKSON ---* Mixed media artist Dana Moody-Stevens said during her career, spanning nearly three decades, her art's been overseas and even stolen, more than once. This weekend, the legally blind artist's boldly colorful, textured paintings and pottery will be on display and for sale during her "Visions of Color" exhibit from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Lake Jackson Civic Center. Admission is free. http://thefacts.com/news/article_6f1827b5-36b4-5470-a8bd-99e1f82d9869.html NYC Art Exhibit Showcases Stunning Math-Inspired Paintings Like Newton, who figures heavily into Saiers' paintings (albeit in decidedly abstract ways), circles appear everywhere in the artist's work. Circles take the form of colorful dots floating in space in unfamiliar patterns. But these colorful dots have a message: They spell out words in Braille, the tactile writing system used by the blind and visually impaired. Saiers said he uses Braille for a number of reasons. For one, it's a symbol of what he believes is U.S. society's blindness to world issues, such as genocide and insufficient access to clean water. But Braille also embodies his work as a whole; it's a simple collection of shapes that represents something much more complex --- a whole world of ideas. Packing these little circles of meaning onto a square canvas has a deeper meaning too, according to Saiers. "There's a famous problem in mathematics from the Greeks called squaring the circle," Saiers said. "It's the idea of trying to form a square that has the same area as a given circle, using only a compass and a straight edge. It turns out, this problem is impossible. So when I see a circle and square on the same canvas, I immediately see dissonance." [The 11 Most Beautiful Mathematical Equations http://www.livescience.com/48635-math-meets-art-nyc-exhibition.html Headset creates "3D soundscape" to help blind people navigate cities research group Future Cities Catapult and tech company Microsoft have developed a headset that sends the wearer three-dimensional sound information in a push to make urban areas more navigable for blind people (+ movie). http://www.dezeen.com/2014/11/06/future-cities-catapult-microsoft-guide-dogs-3d-headset-soundscape-to-help-blind-people/ Colors of the wind gets colorful Learning how to make life a beautiful experience when living with a degenerative eye disease is what legally blind artist George Mendoza talked about with students yesterday at Skyline's "Colors of the Wind" event - See more at: http://www.theskylineview.com/news/2014/10/31/colors-of-the-wind-gets-colorful/#sthash.LaprXvDt.dpufhttp://www.theskylineview.com/news/2014/10/31/colors-of-the-wind-gets-colorful/ Blind actor' is a role he shuns An actor's life is one of auditions and rejections. But what if --- because of a disability --- you feared you'd face rejection before you ever sang a note, danced a step, or uttered a line? That's the reality of Blake Stadnik, 23, of Ellwood City, Pa., who plays Marius in the North Shore Music Theatre's production of "Les Mis?rables," which opened Tuesday and runs until Nov. 16. He suffers from Stargardt's disease, an inherited form of juvenile macular degeneration, and has been legally blind since he was 7. That hasn't stopped him from embarking on a promising career as a professional performer. http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2014/10/30/blind-actor-role-shuns/biXxsO0rsJCPY340iXCvaM/story.html How an 'eyeborg' enables a colour blind artist to make art http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/10/27/how-eyeborg-enables-colour-blind-artist-make-art The new Marina Abramovic art show is literally senseless Imagine all of a sudden you've become blind and deaf, then led into a room and left there. Welcome to Marina Abramovic's new show. For "Generator," at the Sean Kelly Gallery, the grandmother of performance artists left her favorite subject --- herself, sometimes naked, sometimes not --- to focus on us. Stripped of our cellphones, then blindfolded and fitted with noise-canceling headphones, we're expected to generate what art historian Alexander Dorner once described as "the new type of art . . . more like a power station, a producer of new energy." http://nypost.com/2014/10/28/the-new-marina-abramovic-art-show-is-literally-senseless/ From fnugg at online.no Thu Nov 13 11:13:24 2014 From: fnugg at online.no (fnugg at online.no) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:13:24 +0100 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] Art garden, dancers, arts journalist Message-ID: <54649254.4060408@online.no> Art garden needs some community support in order to grow http://staugustine.com/news/local-news/2014-10-22/art-garden-needs-some-community-support-order-grow#.VGSNaGd0xaR Kansas State School for the Blind: Unleashing the power of independence loves art and describes in detail a piece he created while attending the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind. "It was a self portrait http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/community/joco-913/article3211558.html TOUCH St Augustine Art Garden Groundbreaking The St. Augustine Art Association reported to Historic City News this week that they recently broke ground for the new TOUCH St. Augustine Art Garden at the Art Center on Marine Street. http://historiccity.com/2014/staugustine/news/florida/touch-st-augustine-art-garden-groundbreaking-48157 Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/community/joco-913/article3211558.html#storylink=cpy Blind dancers of Articulate Ability perform in Boston Boston: They ended their performance by dancing to a piece which took its title from a Sanskrit sloka, "Tamaso Ma Jyotirgamaya," - "Lead me from Darkness unto Light," - urging the powers Almighty to lead them towards light - and yet it seemed that it was they who were leading us in the audience to ever-increasing light and vision. These were the five dancers who form part of the dance-troupe, Articulate Ability, and are all legally blind. They performed at the Regis College in Weston MA on Saturday October 11. http://twocircles.net/2014oct18/1413602802.html#.VGSO8md0xaQ Articulate Ability's Blind Artists Wow Audience WESTON, MA - The five dancers who form part of the dance-troupe, Articulate Ability, and are all legally blind, performed at the Regis College in Weston, MA on Saturday, October 11. The event was organized by Association for India's Development (AID - Boston & MIT chapters). Their flawless execution of dance moves and their coordination on stage thrilled audience members. "It's amazing how synchronized they were but beyond that, they were incredible performers - surpassing most bands and troupes that I know of," said Zainab Lakhani of Cambridge, MA. http://www.indianewengland.com/ME2/Audiences/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&AudID=DF568A126C8B4DBEBB671850EBEFBDD3&tier=4&id=EB8A7D8130AE4F53A32FF9D9929C303A How do visually impaired people enjoy art? Lisa Squirrel is visually impaired -- but visual art is one of her great passions. As a student she fought resistance from teachers to study art history, and now leads tours at some of London's leading galleries. To experience works she cannot fully see, Lisa reads about them extensively. Close description by a sighted person and guided hand movements in front of the pieces allow her to understand their shapes and forms. Her in-depth knowledge of artists' techniques and materials let her build a rich picture in her mind. BBC Culture joined Lisa on a recent tour for visually impaired people of Tate Britain's exhibition Turner: Painting Set Free to find out about her experience of art and her work to bring enjoyment of it to partially sighted people. http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20141013-can-blind-people-enjoy-art BARR. KAMAR-DEEN LANRE ADEBAYO: Blind, yes... but I see just as well *While working in the print media, you were reviewing visual arts, stage plays, films and home videos. How were you doing that? * Talking about print journalism and the arts, I see myself as informer. The role of a journalist is to inform. Mine is to gather information and communicate the information to the reader. For an art exhibition, for instance, on the first day of the exhibition when it is opening, I would move round with all the other art viewers, listen to all their comments and speeches, and all that and asked them of their opinions about the art works. Then on a later day when the art exhibition is less occupied with people, I would go there and the artist would conduct me round the art works and explaining to me each work and I would ask him questions. Maybe, by virtue of my training in English Language, which has a way of introducing one to the art generally, I developed a perception for the arts. So, I was able to interpret things even beyond what anybody would tell me. I was able to form my own independent opinion. As per the technicalities of the production of the artworks, I will ask questions from the artist -- how come you used this colour, how come this one is rough, I would feel some of the artworks, how come this is rough, is it the brush strokes? I became gradually schooled in visual art production. By the time I would review the artworks, I would put up all the information I had gathered and married it with my own perception of the work and interpretation of the work, I would come out with my review. http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=85578 From fnugg at online.no Thu Nov 13 12:14:29 2014 From: fnugg at online.no (fnugg at online.no) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 13:14:29 +0100 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] {Disarmed} Esref Armagan, dancers, Thailand Message-ID: <5464A0A5.8080400@online.no> Greatness in the Dark: A List of Famous and Accomplished People with Blindness and Visual Impairment *Esref Armagan * Known as "the artist with no eyes," Esref Armagan defies convention by producing works of art just with the sense of touch. Esref was born blind to an impoverished Turkish family. He had not received any formal schooling, but he has taught himself to write and print. Esref has been drawing and painting in oil with his fingers for the past 35 years. An unconventional artist needs an unconventional technique. He uses a Braille stylus to etch out an outline of his drawing. Oil paint is then applied with his fingers and left to dry before another color is applied to keep it from smudging. Remarkably, Esref's art works not only show rich colors but as well as visual perspective. His art works are produced without the help from any individual. Esref has also produced his own style in doing portraits. A sighted person draws around a photograph, which he then turns over. Using his left hand, Esref transfers what he feels unto another piece of paper, later adding color with his fingers. He has done portraits of notable Turkish citizens, including the current president, prime minister and the former first lady. http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/569105/20141010/world-sight-day-famous-people-blindness-visual.htm#.VGSUTWd0xaR Blind artists from India to perform at 'Articulate Ability' show in Maryland WASHINGTON, DC: On Sunday, October 5, the Johns Hopkins University chapter of the Association of India's Development will host "Articulate Ability," an ensemble of visually challenged artistes that travel around the world to inspire both people with ability and disability. They perform Indian classical, non-classical and folk dances. Amrutha Rajiv spoke to two members of the group, blind artists Mysore Nagaraj and Buse Gowda.http://www.americanbazaaronline.com/2014/10/03/blind-artists-india-perform-articulate-ability-show-maryland/ Blind Veteran Sells Artwork Worth Thousands Painting is a skill that doesn't come naturally to everyone, but imagine trying to do it when you only have 10 per cent of your eyesight left. Royal Navy veteran, Derek O Rourke, has been putting brush to canvas for the last 4 years and has used his art work to make thousands of pounds for charity. http://forces.tv/61757924 Legally blind artist paints from the heart Nearly 100 artists from all over the country are showing their work at the 14th annual Lincoln Arts Festival. Organizers say the event draws around 10,000 people to SouthPointe Pavilions each year. From sculptors and glass blowers to photographers and painters, organizers say they try to find a good balance for people to enjoy. For six "emerging artists," the festival is a chance to get their work seen by thousands for the first time. These artists are selected by the Arts Council, which sponsors their booth. "I was so thrilled," Lincoln painter Susan Eddy said. http://www.klkntv.com/story/26643826/legally-blind-artist-paints-from-the-heart Thailand Creates Art for the Visually Impaired collapse story Gaem, 8, a Thai girl who is blind, joins other students as they feel a bas-relief sculpture at Doi Inthanon National Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on Wednesday as part of a pilot project to develop tourism for the blind and visually impaired in the Thai Kingdom. The project, called "'Feel the Happiness: Art for the Blind," is run by the Thai Ministry of Tourism and Thai universities with the goal of promoting greater equality in the country and allowing visually impaired local and international visitors to experience its landmarks through feeling. The project's next step is to have artists create more sculptured and interactive artworks to be placed at Thailand's tourist sites. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/thailand-creates-art-visually-impaired-n210671 From fnugg at online.no Thu Nov 13 12:45:33 2014 From: fnugg at online.no (fnugg at online.no) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 13:45:33 +0100 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] Fragile vision, St. Augustine Art Association, color blindness Message-ID: <5464A7ED.7070105@online.no> St. Augustine Art Association seeks 'touchable' art http://staugustine.com/compass/2014-09-19/st-augustine-art-association-seeks-touchable-art#.VGShLWd0xaQ Blind Saudi sculptor to exhibit work in UK http://www.arabnews.com/news/631426 /Rachel Gadsden/ Rachel Gadsden is a unique and exciting visual artist who creates dynamic work and leads a range of national and international participative programmes. http://www.disabilityartsinternational.org/artists/profiles/rachel-gadsden/ Brave patient's art of survival http://www.thestar.co.uk/what-s-on/out-about/brave-patient-s-art-of-survival-1-6849043 Will Cyborgs Turn Art into a Supersensory Futureworld? http://www.psfk.com/2014/09/will-cyborgs-turn-art-supersensory-futureworld.html 'I try to assign a face to emotion' Do you feel limited as you cannot see most of the colours? Being able to see only a limited palette has actually ushered more freedom. Like, one cannot be lost in his own home no matter how small or big it is. I am at home when I spot yellow. The feeling when I see this colour in the set is similar to spotting your best friend in a strange city! I am only partially colour blind, not fully, and that is where all the drama unfolds. It would be right to say that more than colours, my interest is in processing emotions differently. Emotions are information. Awareness of your emotional responses help empower one's individuality. I try and assign a face to the emotion through my paintings. http://gulfnews.com/about-gulf-news/al-nisr-portfolio/weekend-review/i-try-to-assign-a-face-to-emotion-1.1377699 Can you explain the thought process behind "The Incessant Ramblings of a Yellow Kind"? From Lisa.Yayla at statped.no Fri Nov 21 06:51:21 2014 From: Lisa.Yayla at statped.no (Lisa Yayla) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 06:51:21 +0000 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] Synaesthesia and propriocetption Message-ID: <348b7b47944a4f95a7b36120ec36deeb@MAIL2.statped.no> Hi, Sending a couple article links that are a bit off topic, but well, this is Friday. It's been awhile since I've sent anything about synaesthesia - read this in New Scientist People taught synaesthesia learn to read in colour "Brain training for synaesthesia - the condition where you mix up sensory information - doesn't yet exist, but it may be just around the corner. For the first time, people have been taught to experience a common form of synaesthesia, where letters appear as certain colours, in their everyday life." http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26578-people-taught-synaesthesia-learn-to-read-in-colour.html#.VG7eEMt0zcs Another about proprioception Magic shoes: How to hear yourself instantly happy The first part of the article is about how to trick your sense of touch with sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My_I9iWdPBw Link to Full article http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26524-magic-shoes-how-to-hear-yourself-instantly-happy.html?full=true#.VG7fJ8t0zcs Best regards, Lisa -Scanned by Exchange Hosted Services- From fnugg at online.no Mon Dec 29 10:15:29 2014 From: fnugg at online.no (fnugg at online.no) Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 11:15:29 +0100 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] Jacques Le Magnen Message-ID: <54A129C1.7050209@online.no> Hi, Read about Jacques Le Magnen in Gary Taube's Good Calories, Bad Calories. In anycase if you are not familiar with this scientist am sending a link. He became blind at the age of 13. One of the pioneers in research on olfaction and taste, and on the regulation of water and food intake left us on Thursday, May 23, 2002, at the age of 85. Jacques Le Magnen was a disciple of the famous French physiologist Henri Pi?ron at the Coll?ge de France, and from 1949 till 1989 developed his own laboratory of sensory and behavioral neurophysiology in this same renowned institution. His early work was dedicated to the study of olfaction, and more especially (but not only!) to the influence of hormonal status and particularly sex hormones on variations in olfactory sensitivity. The originality of his approach and the precision of his experiments, executed with very primitive olfactometry, immediately assured him a position as one of the leading personalities in the field of olfaction. He always retained a keen interest in olfaction and was a mentor to many young scientists, both in and outside his laboratory, who wanted to study olfactory phenomena, even when the main orientation of his work shifted towards the study of the regulation of food and water intake. To this latter field of research he made a number of invaluable contributions. Beginning in 1950, Jacques Le Magnen put forward a series of revolutionary concepts. His ideas have inspired and still inspire generations of scientists. He was the first to develop instruments that made it possible to register food and water intake in the rat across the whole 24 h day, and to show how the behavior and its determinants change under the influence of circadian cycles. During the phase of activity (the night in the rat), intake permits the build up ofbodily reserves which will be used in the resting phase, during which consumption is reduced to a minimum. This day/night alternation is one of the cornerstones of energetic and hydromineral regulation. During the daily active period, meals alternate with fasting in response to metabolic signals that are generated by the acquisition of the ingesta and by the composition of bodily reserves. In all this, the role of the sensory characteristics of food, olfactory of course, but also gustatory and visual, was not forgotten. In what he called `learning of palatability', Jacques Le Magnen showed how the sensory characteristics of food transform themselves into a complex conditioned stimulus that guides behavior, permits the formation of food preferences and aversions, and determines the size of a meal depending on the anticipated metabolic consequences of ingestion. Furthermore, his laboratory confirmed that the same sensory and metabolic factors also function in humans. Finally, he was also interested in problems concerning human alcohol consumption, and in order to study them he created an animal model that was addicted to ethanol which he used during 30 years of research. Jacques Le Magnen continued to publish scientific work right to the end of his life. His bibliography can be found in his last invited publication in an international journal, entitled `My scientific life: 40 years at the Coll?ge de France' (2001, /Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev./, 25: 375--394). Thus, the richness of his ideas and his enormous knowledge of the fields that were important to him are readily available. Jacques Le Magnen also played an important role in the organization of research. As a Research Director of the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique and of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, he played an important role in the evaluation of research and scientific development in France. As co-founder and first president of the European Chemoreception Research Organization, he had a lasting impact on the development of the coordination of chemo-sensory research in the world. But above all, his students and all those who have known him will remember him by his exceptional courage and dedication to science. At the age of 13 he contracted an encephalitis, as a result of which he lost his eyesight. His blindness, however, did not stop him from pursuing a scientific career characterized by brilliant ideas and experiments. He was an indefatigable worker, a true scholar and a lover of refined music. His intellectual activity did not end with his retirement from the Coll?ge de France in 1989 and he continued to write to the last. His students and his friends were always struck by his phenomenal scientific and encyclopedic memory. Jacques Le Magnen knew everything: who had demonstrated what, by what means and under what circumstances. The most astonishing feats of this memory were his lively and very visual descriptions of cities he had visited, but of course had never seen directly. He saw these cities through the eyes of Madame Le Magnen, his admirable and devoted companion, who was always at his side wherever he traveled. Jacques Le Magnen was Chevalier de la L?gion d'Honneur and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universties of Lausanne and Utrecht. http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/2/85.full From fnugg at online.no Mon Dec 29 10:50:36 2014 From: fnugg at online.no (fnugg at online.no) Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 11:50:36 +0100 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] audio description, 3D, film Message-ID: <54A131FC.1020607@online.no> /Since 1999, 63-year-old Celia Hughes has served as executive director of VSA Texas , a statewide program dedicated to making the arts accessible to people with disabilities. She is also a cofounder of the Audio Description Coalition and trains people in the art of audio description---descriptions of action, characters, costumes, scenery and other visual information inserted into natural pauses in the dialogue or narration of film, theater, opera and jazz concerts for the benefit of blind attendees. https://www.texasobserver.org/direct-quote-helping-blind-experience-arts/ Audio Description Coalition http://www.audiodescriptioncoalition.org/ /Blind woman excels at art, thanks to Frankley group http://www.bromsgrovestandard.co.uk/2014/11/14/news-Blind-woman-excels-at-art-thanks-to-Frankley-group-121079.html excerpt Normally, the gravitational pull of the Power Station attracts visitors to ride the museum's stretch escalator to its higher floors. Upstairs at the biennale is a bank of telephones that each play a bit of music plus scores of works like a comment on the once-great city Detroit and sculptures by blind artists. http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/11/24/shanghai-art-show-asks-for-the-worlds-no-2-economy-what-now/ Pirate3D's 3-D printed photos help the blind see http://www.greenprophet.com/2014/11/pirate3d-3-d-printed-photos-help-the-blind-see/ Can a Blind Director of Photography Shoot a Film? http://www.zagrebfilmfestival.com/en/vijesti/can-blind-director-photography-shoot-film