Audiodescrição na leitura de imagens: uma solução à cegueira figurativa da sociedade contemporânea?

Abstract

Contemporary society lives in a world surrounded by images which, due to the excess and volatility of visual information, influence the way they are perceived. The superficiality of visual perception has resulted in a [figuratively] blind society, accommodated to images as visual stimuli that do not require critical and reflective visual reading. The aim of this work was to present audio description linked to a methodological proposal as a way of describing images in the process of image reading in Visual Arts teaching. To this end, the study was based on bibliographical research of an applied nature that followed a qualitative approach, arguing about the relationship between man and the image over time (Monteiro, 2013), establishing discussions about the image (Mitchell, 2005; Joly, 2007), concepts of visuality and center-visuality in contemporary’s society (Coelho, 2006; Bavcar, 2014), and dialoguing with types of visual accessibility (Motta, 2016), the teaching of Visual Arts (Barbosa, 2014; 2016) and image reading (Costella, 2010). The research observed that, in the scenario of contemporary society, in order to understand the subjectivity behind an image there is a need to re-educate the gaze and that, for this, alternative perception strategies can be used. In this respect, this study concluded that as well as performing its assistive function, audio description can serve as a tool to stimulate sensitive, interpretative and critical perception when reading images.