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An Eyeful of Sound: Using animation to document audio visual synaesthesia.

Brief Description

This chapter was originally given as part of a conversational conference. Subsequently it was selected to be part of a book based on papers from the event. Its acceptance signals a cross-disciplinary interest in animated documentary in the field of data visualisation.

Research Rationale

This chapter represents the changing status of animated documentary and the ways that animated non-fiction interacts with and contributes to the field of data visualisation. This chapter has been selected to represent several papers given and published around this subject because it illustrates the cross disciplinary nature of this research (across data visualisation, animation research, documentary film, and neuro-psychology). It represents the academic element of the research, whilst the film An Eyeful of Sound represents the practice component.

Strategies Undertaken

This case study paper dealt with the methodology of An Eyeful of Sound, using a collaboratively ethnographic process to visualize an internal subjective state. In the field of animated documentary the categorization of modes of representation is currently being debated, and this research deals with why and how the subjective can be represented through the animated form. This chapter was a development into academic writing and reflection after being mainly a practitioner for several years.