Week 6 Christine Sun Kim Ted Talk – Bonnie Chan

When watching Christine Sun Kim’s Ted talk, it opened up new knowledge and perspectives for me regarding audio and visuals. As someone who has taken hearing for granted her whole life, I never thought of incorporating sound as a medium as well as using a mix of sound, visuals, and touch.  Her method of visualizing audio through etiquette as well as human interaction requires very detailed observation to master. It inspired me to think about human behavior and its relationship to sound, such as our reactions and actions when we hear a specific sound like when the door slams. To take those visuals and flip over to translate into sound is something that I would not have fathomed. But its inspired me to utilize our human behaviors to express sound. To think of the specific sounds that initiate certain actions inspires me to create something that would visually express this relationship. Another aspect of the TED Talk that intrigued me was this idea of drawing or visualizing the different physical movements of ASL. Its one thing to visualize sound through movements, but then to also depict it in a different medium is innovative and interesting. 

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