Museum Audio Description - translating images into words

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A focus session on translating museum audio description (AD) i.e. the visual description of artworks, cultural artefacts and archaeological findings. | 25 August 2023

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A focus session (short workshop) on museum audio description (AD) i.e. the visual description of artworks, cultural artefacts and archaeological findings, as an instance of intersemiotic translation within a range of AD types. While covering the differences between such a service and museum audio guides for the general public, museum AD is illustrated as an inclusive tool to foster wider access to cultural heritage, primarily intended for blind and visually impaired visitors but also as an enriching opportunity for all. The focus session, aimed at language and translation professionals, as well as future describers, will outline some of the main existing museum-specific AD guidelines and provide authentic examples drawing from different case studies. Finally, it will briefly discuss the interlingual translation of AD scripts as an emerging audiovisual translation practice.
Key take-aways:
* Learn about audio description as an audiovisual translation modality for accessibility
* Understand the specificities of museum audio descriptions (a sub-genre of audio description) with respect to general audio guides
* Get to know some of the main guidelines for creating a museum audio description
* Find out about the translation of audio descriptions from one language into another

Chiara Bartolini is a communications expert at Fondation Grand Paradis (Italy). She holds a PhD in Translation, Interpreting & Intercultural Studies and specialises in translation, communication and accessibility practices in museum and heritage contexts. From 2021 to 2023, she was responsible for a research project entitled “Ways of Seeing: museum audio description for all”, as a Postdoc Researcher and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures of the University of Bologna. Her first monograph is forthcoming with the title “How do university museums communicate online? Intercultural perspectives on museum discourse”.

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Category:
translation
Format:
online live
Location:
online
Date(s):
Friday 25 August 2023, 11am - 12.30pm
Language:
English
Paid / Free?
paid
Currency:
GBP
Amount:
35.00

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