Ora, direis, ouvir imagens?: um olhar sobre o potencial informativo da áudio-descrição aplicada a obras de artes visuais bidimensionais como representação sonora da informação em arte para pessoas com deficiência visual

Abstract

Research about the informative potential of the audio description applied the two-dimensional works of visual arts as sonorous representation of the Information in Art for visually impaired people. Developed by means of a hybrid methodology composed by the approaches of the Evidential Paradigm, the Research-Action and on the basis of the Structural Model for Researches in Plastic Arts and in the Directives of the audio description for Samples and Museums it unfolded in methodological procedures in the which the researcher participated of diverse actions integrated to others agents. The inquiry sets out the extrinsic and inherent aspects of the audio description, considering the dimensions of accessibility physical, methodological, instrumental, communicative, programmatic and of attitudes by which means, the works of art, after being analyzed as sources of information and encoded in structure to assist, they become accessible and available to be accessed. A theoretical study about the stream informational audio description, carried out from the theoretical bases of the Information Science mainly of the Information in Art maintained the structure of the first exposition of two-dimensional works of visual arts with audio description that took place in the State of the Rio de Janeiro. The results of the research refute the distrust and the ignorance as to the informative potential that exists in the access of the visually impaired people to twodimensional standards and reveal contribution of the audio description for the Information Science. As byproduct of the research, documentary was created with content elements that composed the exposition, including the audio description, with plans for the future creation of the first Brazilian database of free access to audio descriptions of two-dimensional works of visual arts