Notes on Blindness: A VR Experience

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Program Type:

Big Read, Computers & Tech

Age Group:

Adults

Program Description

Event Details

Ages 12 & Up: Travel with Professor John Hull as he documents his experience of entirely losing his sight after years of steady deterioration in the award-winning virtual reality film Notes on Blindness: Into the Darkness. By incorporating movement tracking, spatialized sound, sparse animation, and controller interactions alongside Professor Hull’s audio diary, Notes on Blindness immerses VR users in an interactive, non-fictional narrative soundscape that demonstrates the challenges of being blind to sighted individuals. 

Notes on Blindness will be available to play in Haute Create throughout March and April as a self-guided experience. 

This program is supported by the National Endowment of the Arts. The National Endowment for the Arts Big Read—a partnership with Arts Midwest—broadens our understanding of our world, our neighbors, and ourselves through the power of a shared reading experience. Showcasing a diverse range of themes, voices, and perspectives, the NEA Big Read aims to inspire meaningful conversations, artistic responses, and new discoveries and connections in each community. Learn more about the NEA Big Read at www.arts.gov/initiatives/nea-big-read.