Staring: how we look, by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, New York, Oxford University Press, 2009, 244 pp., US$24.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-195-32680-2 I have always been a starer. People have reminded ...

Staring: how we look

Walkers with visual-impairments in the British countryside: Picturesque legacies, collective enjoyments and well-being benefits

Online virtual museum tours combine museum authority and an academic approach with the diversity and interactivity of online resources; such tours have become an essential resource for online scientific research and education. Many important museums around the world are developing this type of online service. Comprehensive evaluation of such tours is, however, urgently needed to ensure effectiveness. This paper establishes a heuristic evaluation scale based on the literature. Taking the online virtual tour of the Exhibition of Architecture of the Forbidden City as a case study, confirmatory factor analysis was then carried out to improve the scale. Interviews were conducted to discuss and analyze the research results. The developed evaluation scale has four dimensions: authenticity, interaction, navigation, and learning. The results from the case study showed, first, that the exhibition had visual authenticity, but the behavioral authenticity was insufficient; second, the exhibition was generally interactive, but this aspect could be improved by enriching the links; third, the lack of effective navigation design for the exhibit was the main factor affecting experience quality. Fourth, the exhibition was informative and supported learning, but needs further improvement to the quantity and quality of information provided. Finally, the interviews revealed that the online exhibition did not entirely support people of different ages and abilities, so it needs further improvement to be wholly inclusive.

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Evaluation of virtual tour in an online museum: Exhibition of Architecture of the Forbidden City

Designing an Interactive Exhibitor for Assisting Blind and Visually Impaired Visitors in Tactile Exploration of Original Museum Pieces

From 1840 until 1940, freak shows by the hundreds crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today's standards such displays would be considered cruel and exploitive - the pornography of disability. Yet for one hundred years the freak show was widely accepted as one of America's most popular forms of entertainment.

Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit by Robert Bogdan: Contemporary Sociology

The author describes two exhibits: Blind at the Museum at the Berkeley Art Museum in 2005, and What Can a Body Do? , at the Canter Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College in 2012.   She argues for inclusive design in the exhibits themselves, as well as what she calls the exhibit’s discursive elements--catalogues, docent tours, symposia, and websites--that not only extend the life of such exhibits but also expand access for attendees and others.  Key words: Blind artists, inclusive design, accessible exhibit design, the discursive turn, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Canter Fitzgerald Gallery.

Talking Blind: Disability, Access, and the Discursive Turn

This paper will explore the work of two contemporary dwarf photographers, Ricardo Gil and Laura Swanson, who use different conceptual and technical methods to re-frame the figure of the dwarf subject The dwarf has often been a marginalized subject in the history of photography, so I am interested in exploring how the strategies that Gil and Swanson employ might resist reductive meanings, and offer alternative readings to the dwarf beyond the oppositional gaze The articulation of these methods will be prefaced by a focused discussion of dwarf depictions in the history of photography based on the intentions of the photographer, so that the work of several photographers might be powerfully juxtaposed with the radical counter-strategies that Gil and Swanson utilize  Figure 1 and 2: Figure 3 and 4: Figure 5 and 6: Figure 7 and 8: Figure 9 and 10: Figure 11 and 12: Figure 13 and 14: Figure 15 and 16: Figure 17 and 18: Image Credits Figure 1: George Dureau, Short Sonny , ca 1970, photograph courtesy of Arthur Roger Gallery Figure 2: George Dureau, Ricardo Gil , ca 1970, photograph courtesy of Arthur Roger Gallery Figure 3: Ricardo Gil and George Dureau , 2012, photograph courtesy of Jason Kruppa Figure 4: Arthur Fellig (Weegee), Drinking In Style , 1943: Shorty, the “Bowery Cherub” celebrates New Year's Eve at Sammy's Bar, in the Bowery district of New York © Weegee (Arthur Fellig)/International Center of Photography /Getty Images Figure 5: Mary Ellen Mark, Twin Brothers Tulsi and Basant (Great Famous Circus, Calcutta, India) , 1989, photograph courtesy of the artist Figure 6: Bruce Davidson, The Dwarf , 1958, photograph courtesy of Magnum Photos, New York Figure 7: Ricardo Gil, Walking Man and Mannequins , c 1996, photograph courtesy the artist Figures 8 & 9: David’s Kitchen , 1997, and Ricardo Gil, Charles, Eric and Meg , 1999, photographs courtesy of the artist Figures 10 & 11: Garry Winogrand, New York, ca 1968 and American Legion Convention, Dallas, Texas, 1964 © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, photographs courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco Figures 12 & 13: Kevin Michael Connolly, Girl; London, England , 2007, and Man; Reykjavik, Iceland , 2007, photographs courtesy of the artist Figures 14 – 17: Laura Swanson, Anti-Self Portraits , 2005-2008, photographs courtesy the artist Figure 18: Joel-Peter Witkin, Dwarf From Naples, Rome, 2006 © Joel-Peter Witkin / photograph courtesy Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago

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Composing Dwarfism: Reframing Short Stature in Contemporary Photography

In this essay, we propose that the Deleuzoguattarian rhizome offers a map and metaphor for the field of disability studies, especially as it develops outside the boundaries of a defined program or curriculum. As an example of rhizomatic growth, we discuss a series of events in the Philadelphia area in fall 2012 that focused on disability studies and disability arts and culture, including an art exhibition entitled What Can A Body Do? and a scholarly residency sponsored by the Greater Philadelphia Women’s Studies Consortium. We suggest that the art gallery offers a generative space for the growth of disability studies, disability aesthetics, and new models of access, and we emphasize the importance of cross-institutional collaboration in the development of disability studies not only as a field but as a field of energy . Keywords: rhizome, Deleuze and Guattari, art gallery, contemporary art, curator, access, audio description, multisensory, collaboration, consortium, disability aesthetics, What Can A Body Do?

Growing Rhizomatically: Disability Studies, the Art Gallery and the Consortium

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Talking Blind: Disability, Access, and the Discursive Turn

Composing Dwarfism: Reframing Short Stature in Contemporary Photography

Growing Rhizomatically: Disability Studies, the Art Gallery and the Consortium