Beyond the Visual - Collin van Uchelen, Visually Impaired Conceptual Artist on Accessible Fireworks and Pyrotechnics
Season 1, Episode 1442, Oct 27, 2022, 10:45 AM
Beyond the Visual, a symposium reflecting on what blindness brings to the experience of art within cultural organisations and beyond was held at Wellcome Collection on Friday and Saturday 21 and 22 October 2022.
Visually impaired and sighted Speakers at the symposium included artists, creative practitioners, disability activists, historians, researchers and scientists together to not only to talk about inclusion and access to the arts for blind and partially sighted people but also to talk about what blind and partially sighted people can bring to cultural experiences for all.
RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey was there for both days of the symposium catching up with some of the key people behind Beyond the Visual and some of the key speakers too.
In the forth of Toby’s interviews from the symposium he chats with Collin van Uchelen, a visually impaired Conceptual Artist and Community Psychology consultant based in Vancouver about his presentation, Translating Light Into Non-Visual Forms.
Collin gave Toby a bit of background about making fireworks and pyrotechnics accessible to blind and partially sighted people through description and touch following on from a friend who described a firework display to him. Some work with Vocal Eye an audio description organisation based in Canada on ways to describe fireworks, the use of touch to draw out a tactile impression of the shapes that the fireworks make in the sky and the relationship between fireworks and the shapes of flowers.
Collin also told Toby about how he was working on choreographing his own pyrotechnic display to the sound of a Yes track.
For more about the Beyond the Visual Symposium and the network do visit the University of London research web pages via the following website -
https://www.arts.ac.uk/research/stories
(Image shows RNIB logo. 'RNIB' written in black capital letters over a white background and underlined with a bold pink line, with the words 'See differently' underneath)
Visually impaired and sighted Speakers at the symposium included artists, creative practitioners, disability activists, historians, researchers and scientists together to not only to talk about inclusion and access to the arts for blind and partially sighted people but also to talk about what blind and partially sighted people can bring to cultural experiences for all.
RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey was there for both days of the symposium catching up with some of the key people behind Beyond the Visual and some of the key speakers too.
In the forth of Toby’s interviews from the symposium he chats with Collin van Uchelen, a visually impaired Conceptual Artist and Community Psychology consultant based in Vancouver about his presentation, Translating Light Into Non-Visual Forms.
Collin gave Toby a bit of background about making fireworks and pyrotechnics accessible to blind and partially sighted people through description and touch following on from a friend who described a firework display to him. Some work with Vocal Eye an audio description organisation based in Canada on ways to describe fireworks, the use of touch to draw out a tactile impression of the shapes that the fireworks make in the sky and the relationship between fireworks and the shapes of flowers.
Collin also told Toby about how he was working on choreographing his own pyrotechnic display to the sound of a Yes track.
For more about the Beyond the Visual Symposium and the network do visit the University of London research web pages via the following website -
https://www.arts.ac.uk/research/stories
(Image shows RNIB logo. 'RNIB' written in black capital letters over a white background and underlined with a bold pink line, with the words 'See differently' underneath)