The Braille Box is an interactive audio visual installation by Jessica Tyrrell, recently shown at Electrofringe during the This is Not Art Festival in Newcastle. The work, which featured in an accessibility program that included “a series of events focused on accessibility and the potential of new media arts for people with specialised needs”, opens tonight at the Don’t Look Gallery, Sydney.
The installation uses a touch-driven Braille interface that triggers immersive audio visual material of seven blind people who reflect on their blindness.
:the braille box: is an interactive, audience-driven installation that uses blindness both as metaphor and as a documented experience to explore questions of cognition, meaning and perception in terms of the sensed world and the world built from language. The work uses a touch-driven Braille interface to trigger immersive audio and video to surround the gallery visitor in the contradictions and poetics inherent in the meaning of vision and its absence.
Braille Box opens this evening, November 7th, at 6pm and runs for 10 days until November 17th.
Don’t Look Experimental New Media Gallery
419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill (Sydney)
Gallery hours: Thursday – Saturday, 11am – 5pm