ARSAD 2023 took place in Barcelona on 20-21 April 2024.

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PROGRAMME

DAY 1. 20/04/2023

08.30-09.00 Registration

09.00-09.15 Welcoming words by Anna Matamala (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB)

09.15-10.00 Keynote speaker: Sophie Frilley (TITRAFILM), chaired by Federico Spoletti (SUB-TI)

10.00-11.30 Sound and voices, chaired by Anna Matamala (UAB) (15’ presentations + 30’ discussion)

  • Bernd Benecke (Bayerischer Rundfunk): Designing with voices: The challenges of presenting and sound editing in Audio Description [pdf]
  • Brett Oppegaard (University of Hawaii): Is it Art? Or is it Audio Description? Experiments on the boundaries of media accessibility [pdf]
  • Roger Johansson, Jana Holsanova, Viveka Lyberg-Åhlander, Erika Sombeck & Tina Rastegar (Lund University/Åbo Academy): Spatiotemporal description of events in AD – the role of cognitive aspects and voice quality [pdf]
  • Irene Hermosa (UAB) & Nina Reviers (University of Antwerp): From theatre podcast to audio introductions and back [pdf]

11.30-12.00 Coffee break

12.00-13.30 AD models and challenges, chaired by Nina Reviers (University of Antwerp) (15’ presentations + 30’ discussion)

  • Marie Campbell (Red Bee Media): The Art of Difficult Describing [pdf]
  • Marina Ramos & Purificación Meseguer Cutillas (University of Murcia): The role of ideology on the audio description process [pdf]
  • Alejandro Romero (Universitat Jaume I): The multimodal configuration of the audio description script. A qualitative content analysis of the meaning codes [pdf]
  • Iwona Mazur (Adam Mickiewicz University): Functional priorities in audio description [pdf]

13.30-14.30 Lunch break

14.30-16.00 AD across the world, chaired by Iwona Mazur (Adam Mickiewicz University) (15’ presentations + 30’ discussion)

  • Lucinea Villela (Sao Paulo State University): What makes a Brazilian audio description a Brazilian audio description? [pdf]
  • Kulnaree Sueroj & Mariana Lopez (University of York): The challenges of existing Thai Audio Description guidelines [pdf]
  • Soledad Álvarez & Mayte Gorrostorrazo (Universidad de la República): A Linguistic Study on Film Audio Description in Uruguay: the Project “Image and Word in Motion” [pdf]
  • Laura Marra (Università del Salento): “Show or tell”. The language of emotions in the Spanish and Italian AD [pdf]

16.00-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-18.30 Artistic practices, chaired by Lucinéa Villela (Sao Paulo State University) (15’ presentations + 30’ discussion)

  • Jana Holsanova (Lund University), Vera Suvalo Grimberg (Dance Company Spinn) & Tina Weidelt (Audiosyn): Recorded Audio Description as an integral part of the live dance performance of ‘Miramos’ [pdf]
  • Alicia Verdú & María Olalla Luque Colmenero (University of Granada): From Labanotation to subjectivity in the audio description of the contemporary dance piece Minerva [pdf]
  • Arianna Carloni (University of Surrey): Watching and Listening to Dance [pdf]
  • Chiara Bartolini (University of Bologna): Cultural accessibility strategies and museum AD in Italy: a (belated) emerging practice? [pdf]
  • María José García-Vizcaíno (Montclair State University): Audio Description from Within: The Artist’s Turn [pdf]
  • Karen Seeley (The University of Adelaide): End-User experience of AD for the Performing Arts: Complexities beyond Practice [pdf]

DAY 2. 21/04/2023

09.00-09.15 Registration

09.15-10.30 Technology and tools, chaired by Pilar Orero (UAB) (15’ presentations + 30’ discussion)

  • Mereijn van der Heijden (Soundfocus) & Ellen Schut (Earcatch): Pre-recorded AD for live events [pdf]
  • Eveline Ferwerda (Scribit.Pro): The Video Accessibility Plug-in [pdf]
  • María J. Valero Gisbert (Università degli Studi di Parma): Audio description on mobile screens [pdf not available]

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.30 Professional skills and certification, chaired by Estel·la Oncins (UAB) (15’ presentations + 30’ discussion)

  • Wendy Sapp (Bridge Multimedia): Improving Audio Description through Quality Control Reviewers who are Blind [pdf]
  • Joel Snyder (Audio Description Associates, LLC- Audio Description Project of the American Council of the Blind): UPDATE: Becoming a *certified* Audio Describer [pdf]
  • Alicja Zajdel (University of Antwerp): Professional identity profiles among audio describers [pdf]
  • Anna Jankowska (University of Antwerp): Pivot Templates in Audio Description: Performance and Attitude of Translators [pdf]

12.30-13.30 Audio describing videogames, chaired by Sarah McDonagh (UAB) (15’ presentations + 15’ discussion)

  • Xiaochun Zhang (University College London) & Polly Goodwin: AD4Games: applying Audio Description in Video Games [pdf]
  • María Eugenia Larreina & Carme Mangiron (UAB): Audio Description and Video Games – Results from a survey and interviews in Spain [pdf]
  • Miguel Ángel Oliva- Zamora (UAB): Audio Introductions for Video Games [pdf]

13.30-14.30 Lunch break

14.30-16.00 Multimodality and creativity, chaired by Anna Jankowska (University of Antwerp)  (15’ presentations + 30’ discussion)

  • Aneta Pawlowska & Daria Rutkowska-Siuda (University of Lodz): Tactile Architectural Drawings as a tool to support audio description [pdf]
  • Adriana da Paixao (Centro de Apoio Pedagógico à Pessoa com Deficiência Visual Profa. Cátia Paim): Audio description of illustrated books: A multimodal Reading proposal [pdf]
  • Marcella Wiffler Stefanini (State University of Campinas, Unicamp): Audio description of “Vinil Verde”: audio describing the horror gender [pdf]
  • Gert Vercauteren (University of Antwerp): Creativity in the audio description of non-fictional content. The case of the Flemish documentary ‘Beest’ [pdf]

16.00-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-17.45 New audiences, new approaches, chaired by Gert Vercauteren (University of Antwerp) (15’ presentations + 30’ discussion)

  • Monika Zabrocka (Jagiellonian University Krakow) & Grzegorz Kata /University of Economics and Innovation, Lublin): Accessibility has many names. Audio description has many roles [pdf]
  • Yolanda Moreno Montaño (University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia):  Audio description: a learning tool for students with cognitive disabilities. A reception study [pdf]
  • Matt Kaplowitz (Bridge Multimedia) & Joel Snyder (Audio Description Associates, LLc-Audio Description Project of the American Council of the Blind): Can you see Gravity? Audio description and Early Education [pdf not available]

17.45-18.00 Concluding remarks