Visual impairment
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Art Through Touch
Visually impaired artist Lynn Cox explains why this London-based project is so ground-breaking
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The Power of Touch
Joe McConnell talks to Pádraig Naughton about his journey as a visual artist with a sight impairment.
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Alison Jones: The Smell of Honey
Alison Jones, acclaimed visual artist, talks to Joe McConnell about her exploration of multisensory experience.
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Karen Sheader: Planet of the Blind
Joe McConnell talks to Karen Sheader about the production of her CD, Planet of the Blind.
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Extant: Resistance
Extant are the only blind theatre company in the UK. Over the past few years they have been developing new styles to create access for blind performers and audiences alike.
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Liberty Festival 2007
Colin Hambrook reviews this year's big disability celebration in Trafalgar Square
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Envisage Review
Liz Porter reviews the current status of Audio Description, in response to a symposium at the Oxford Playhouse
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In Touch with Art: Conference on Art, Museums and Visual Impairment
Liz Porter attends an International Conference on Art, Museums and Visual Impairment held November 2007 at the V&A, London
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New Life: Blind In Theatre Festival Croatia 2007
Maria Oshodi reports back on Extant's recent visit to the fifth international Blind in Theatre Festival held in Zagreb in October.
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Review: Miroslaw Balka's How It Is at Tate Modern - how it was for one visually impaired art lover
Miroslaw Balka's installation at Tate Modern came with a certain amount of hype and, as I am registered blind, I was curious how I would experience it. I do have some useful vision, but absolutely zero night vision, so this was going to be interesting...
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Gallery: Altered Images
Altered Images - an innovative exhibition, designed to stimulate engagement with the visual arts by people with disabilities, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art from 17 June 2010 to 15 August 2010
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Gallery: BlindArt
BlindArt is a charitable organisation whose aim is to encourage participation and interaction of the visually impaired in the sighted domain of the visual arts. DAO presents a gallery of some of the artwork in the BlindArt collection
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Joe McConnell: Beyond Compliance
DAO looks at the wide gap that separates self-declared accessible websites from websites which are genuinely trying to offer disabled people a comparable experience to that of the non-disabled.
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InterAction Milton Keynes: Ways of Seeing
dao presents a podcast covering the Ways of Seeing Conference which took place in Milton Keynes in September 2007 -
Karen Sheader: Planet of the Blind
A selection of songs of 4 MP3s from Planet of the Blind