Data analysis_Critical Reflection_Coding Memo_033 (22a) - Aaron - Phase 2. Generating initial codes

Process and flow of coding ideas:

Continuation with revisiting earlier memos and expanding on the scant and unusable codes previously generated. Previous codes in grey with new expanded contextual codes in orange

(Practical problems with 3D suspended work – leading to VR opportunities)

Physical display areas can be limited for sonic sculpture that needs to be suspended. Display in VR may be possible.

(Assumptions about sight loss)

Assumptions that sound replaces the visual, for artists with sight loss, implies that art practice outputs are influenced and dictated by disability

(Happy accidents – positive opportunities)

Playful experiments are deliberate with materials and methods.

An opportunistic approach enables for spontaneous and playful practice

(Uneducated audiences; Physical engagement leads to disrespect and damaged art work (similar to David Johnson’s experience)

Physical sculptures are susceptible to vandalism

(Artists are artists – sight or no sight)

Artists are artists, whether sighted or not

The creative mind is present with or without sight

(Artists are not trained to listen)

(The importance of listening)

Active listening is a conscious and deliberate act

(Sound as a navigation method)

New places can be mapped and comprehended by the sounds of the environment

(Active listening – noise as a distraction; Focus on music as a meditation – not simply noise)

Continuous sound is a distraction. Engagement of music is preferred in purposely designed buildings

(Internal memory data base)

Travel and broadening of horizons creates an exotic and beautiful visual vocabulary

(Exotic escape)

Once the unusual or exotic is commonplace it becomes familiar

You don’t need to travel very far to have different experiences

Street maps can be memorised prior to travel as a navigation method

An expanded visual vocabulary can be informed through adventure and travel

(Multi-sensory overload)

Natural sounds are overshadowed and dominated by man-made environments

Competing sounds and lights simultaneously can cause multi-sensory overload.

Bright and loud environments can be managed if staged well

Piccadilly Circus is an example of visual and sonic overload. The brightness can be overwhelming.

Overload of lights and sound can be overwhelming as there is nowhere quiet for reflection or focus

It usually takes something significant for people to stop, focus and listened.

The absence of sound is sometimes shocking to people.

The removal of background noise, such as aircraft enables an appreciation and comprehension of surroundings.

Something dramatic, causing a significant change in circumstances can be beneficial

(Intuitive perception: (Perception of light and scale without sight)

It is possible to comprehend variations in light without sight.

Differentiation of light levels can indicate shape and scale

Intuitive perception and a sense of scale is possible without sight

Diffused light quality can indicate changes in environment

(Seeing only fragments – even for the sighted)

Visual memories create memory data bases

Shape distilled and pared down

Distillation of details to basic shapes happens to both sighted and those with sight-loss

Everyone’s visual perception of the world is different

The brain doesn’t see detail. It generalise, distils and pares down to shaped.

Each person has an individual visual memory bank, based on experience

(Cause of sight loss)

Excellent acuity prior to sight loss may inform visual data memory banks

Medication for inflammatory disease of the eyes can cause additional side effects including cateracts

Experience of sight loss as a positive or negative depends on disposition

Personal disposition and confidence can be a positive aid in accepting sight loss hallucinations

(Colouring in and only ever seeing a part)

It is possible to ‘see’ without seeing the whole

The brain colours in and manufactures what it wants to see

If previously sighted the brain is used to receiving visual data input

Sight is always there – eyes are not necessary for visual stimulous or imagery