Last Wednesday I had the great pleasure of presenting for AWIA at the Ideas4 seminar in Perth,where the ‘Top Secret International Guest’ was revealed as Molly, who is currently travelling around Australia on holiday. And although she didn’t present this time, everyone was still happy for the chance to pick her brain at the end of the evening.
Rachael Cook, co-founder of Minti, began the evening with a personal discussion on her experiences working and living in Silicon Valley, which she followed up with some really useful tips on working with Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors.
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
