ON SOUND/IN SOUND
Insight
24-28/03/2025.
Interactive tactile-sound installation.
Presented at the Zosimaia Public Central Historical Library of Ioannina.
In collaboration with the Department of Fine Arts and Sciences of Art, University of Ioannina, and the Department of Culture and Creative Media and Industries, University of Thessaly.
Insight is an interactive tactile-sound installation developed as part of an English-spoken research project that merges literature, sensory technology, and design to explore accessibility and introspection in art. Combining tactile pages, Braille, soundscapes, and creative audio description, the installation offers a multisensory experience that engages both sighted participants and individuals with partial or total visual impairment.
The work invites visitors to interact with a tactile artist’s book, which contains an excerpt from William Wordsworth’s I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. Through open-source software and embedded interactive systems, each page triggers distinct sonic environments. The project treats accessibility not as an afterthought but as a core creative strategy, promoting inclusive, participatory engagement. Insight reflects on perception, sensory imagination, and the poetic relationship between sound and touch. Drawing from theoretical approaches to sensorial awareness and embodied cognition, it seeks to produce an environment where introspection becomes a path to insight — a kind of knowledge beyond rational or visual understanding.
Contributors:
Dimitris Batsis — Interactive sound system, sound design, audio introduction in Greek.
Athanasios Kokkinos — Artist book & graphic design.
Zalie Burrow — audio introduction in English, creative audio description.
Visnja Stankovic — Poem narration.
Loukia Chrysafi — Braille transcription, tactile image printing (Accessibility Unit, University of Ioannina).
Vasiliki Panourgia (Platon Bookbinding) — Technical support in artistic bookbinding.
Christos Stavrou — Accessibility content editing (University of Ioannina / Université de Bourgogne).
Photos by: Athanasios Kokkinos
Interactive tactile-sound installation.
Presented at the Zosimaia Public Central Historical Library of Ioannina.
In collaboration with the Department of Fine Arts and Sciences of Art, University of Ioannina, and the Department of Culture and Creative Media and Industries, University of Thessaly.
Insight is an interactive tactile-sound installation developed as part of an English-spoken research project that merges literature, sensory technology, and design to explore accessibility and introspection in art. Combining tactile pages, Braille, soundscapes, and creative audio description, the installation offers a multisensory experience that engages both sighted participants and individuals with partial or total visual impairment.
The work invites visitors to interact with a tactile artist’s book, which contains an excerpt from William Wordsworth’s I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. Through open-source software and embedded interactive systems, each page triggers distinct sonic environments. The project treats accessibility not as an afterthought but as a core creative strategy, promoting inclusive, participatory engagement. Insight reflects on perception, sensory imagination, and the poetic relationship between sound and touch. Drawing from theoretical approaches to sensorial awareness and embodied cognition, it seeks to produce an environment where introspection becomes a path to insight — a kind of knowledge beyond rational or visual understanding.
Contributors:
Dimitris Batsis — Interactive sound system, sound design, audio introduction in Greek.
Athanasios Kokkinos — Artist book & graphic design.
Zalie Burrow — audio introduction in English, creative audio description.
Visnja Stankovic — Poem narration.
Loukia Chrysafi — Braille transcription, tactile image printing (Accessibility Unit, University of Ioannina).
Vasiliki Panourgia (Platon Bookbinding) — Technical support in artistic bookbinding.
Christos Stavrou — Accessibility content editing (University of Ioannina / Université de Bourgogne).
Photos by: Athanasios Kokkinos