PROJECT TITLE Spatial Therapy To enhance spatial awareness for the visual impaired ABSTRACT An research essense is focusing at the blind person and specific in their sensory of space and environment. This project aim is to enhance a spatial awareness and spatial perception for the blind of their immediate environtment. (Responding to) The reseacher is looking at involve a supported technology, in which helps to inform the spatial environment, into the space. The technology could be an existing or perhap hope to create a new technology. The research involved a study of existing tested sensory device that designed to substitute the visual impair of the blind and particularly the one that is functioning of their spatial awareness. The research is also involve the study of human different sensories function (hearing, smelling and touching) to understand the performance of each sense. Furthermore, it also include study how the blind substitute their other ability sense for their impaired. KEY WORDS Visual impair Spatial perception Sensory device
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As a Taiwanese girl who grew up in a traditional family, it took me a lot of courage to switch my field from Computer Science to Art, more than to study abroad. For me, studying abroad is just the beginning of setting myself free by changing my physical environment. However, after two years of practice, I find out that the strongest barrier for me is no longer the expectations from my parents, my families, or society, but myself. I constantly want to be special and people to agree that I am special. The struggle of looking for validation appears in my practice, while on the other hand, I truly want to live in confidence without loading people’s opinions on myself.
I’m always interested in placing art works in a public environment, which is more reachable for people. By pulling art out of a formal but conservative gallery environment, the uncertainty of the interaction between viewers and art works increases, and gives me more possibilities to express and be seen. Having the desire of showing my art works to more people, creating special and different experiences in people’s lives and being effective in the world, might reveal that I want to be important, special and memorable, and these values are given by people who see my art works. That is to say, I’m seeking validation, the same as collecting certificates from my childhood, and I hand out the power by making stuff interactive and asking people to interact with it. The ability to build stuff with technology makes me valuable, and both technology and interactive design are the means to draw attention. However, since the art works I’ve made in CalArts were only shown in galleries, I feel contradictory while holding the idea of making it public.
Gradually, I found that the specialty in interaction is not about technology, but about human behavior and the stories behind the appearance. Hence, there is more and more humanity in my works time after time, but I’m still looking for the balance of the story-telling. In my thesis exhibition, I built a rolodex installation with the certificates my brother earned from his childhood, which I have the same experience, and allowed people to crank it as a subversive gesture to the pressure and expectation from my families, as overturning my past. From my exhibition, I learnt how this amount of personal and alienated story interested people, while I felt over-exposed and were placed in an unsafe situation. What I tried to do was no more than exchanging my vulnerable personal story for a validation in the art world. I supposed I made the piece to set myself free from the past, but then found out that I’m still struggling in the circulation of seeking validation and seeking liberation.
Usually, I see myself as an optimistic person, that’s why I tend to make stuffs that I think is fun, purely. However, often I found my art works pessimistic, when they came with my personal perspective or experience. The self-doubt, the struggle and the contradiction inside me led me to this state of work, and finding the balance between an ideal self and the true self might always be my life duty.
