Visual Podcast by Luca M. Damiani Exploring Hyperacusis : Ethno-Graphic Podcast from Luca Damiani on Vimeo. In Exploring Hyperacusis: Ethno-Graphic Podcast, I look at the interaction with my conditions, focusing on auto-ethnographic data based on my acoustic condition of hyperacusis, as well as my asperger’s neurological condition. This work is shared as a diary, combining […]
Category: Poetics
Visualizing my Acoustic Condition: Hyper Sensorial, Visual Graphic Poem
Video-Poem by Luca M. Damiani Below is the video-poem Hyper Sensorial. This work is shared combining the poem and creating graphics, further designing my experience. This is sided by a computational filter that conceptually signifies a further disruption of data, outer stimuli, as well as inner voice. In this piece I started to conceptualize more […]
Visualizing my Acoustic Condition: Graphic Poem
Graphic Poem by Luca M. Damiani Following from the poem, I then wanted to bridge the emotional response to a more visual one, more coded, using data from the scientific and technical audiological tests, diagrams, tools. This process helped me to analyze and rationalize further observations, allowing a more distant perspective of the data and […]
Visualizing my Acoustic Condition: Hyper Sensorial Neuro Response (Poem)
Poem by Luca M. Damiani There are many inner thoughts that the hyper sensorial acoustic disorder brings, and I started to write poems as an output. The first personal and emotional data-responses are collected via words in my diary, which I then analyze, review and build as further pieces of creative writing and poems. An […]
Visualizing My Acoustic Condition: Poem, Graphics and Visual Podcast
Art-Essay by Luca M. Damiani Introduction / Overview The work presented in this art-essay is a hybrid format of artwork, case-study and diary reflection. Here I share auto-ethnographic data1 based on my acoustic condition of bilateral hyperacusis (both pain and vestibular type) and bilateral severe tinnitus.2 I started to suffer from these auditory disorders in […]
“Congenital Glaucoma”: Commentary
Dr Richard Ratzan gives us a commentary on his poem “Congenital Glaucoma, published in BMJ Medical Humanities, and explains why he decided to write about this case using the sonnet form. This little girl – she was probably about 13 or 14; I don’t remember since it was about 10 years ago – was from […]
Reclaiming Reflection: Creative Writing and the Medical Humanities (3)
Reminiscence Bumps: self-mythology and the landscapes of the mind by Eleanor Holmes When I think about the landscapes of the mind, I recall the undulations of the brain’s surface. The ridges and valleys of cortex, the gyri and sulci I had learnt about in my neuroanatomy classes aged nineteen. Those white plastic […]
Reclaiming Reflection: Creative Writing and the Medical Humanities (1)
Poetry and Reflection: a powerful tool for learning This post is part of a series over the next three days on the theme of Creative Writing and Medical Humanities by Dr Eleanor Holmes (pen name Eliot North). As a GP Tutor I’ve delivered seminars on the patient centred medicine (PCM) component of Newcastle […]
Poetry Book Review: The Wound Dresser
Two poetry book reviews will be featured this week. The second review will appear on Friday. Jack Coulehan, The Wound Dresser (Albuquerque: JB Stillwater, 2016) Finalist for the 2016 Dorset Poetry Prize, selected by Robert Pinsky (Poet Laureate of the United States from 1997 to 2000). Reviewed by Barbara Salas The Wound Dresser […]
Poetry and Medicine: Prize Winners
In April I attended the 7th International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine where the 2016 Hippocrates Awards were announced. A fascinating day, the programme included critiques on Philip Larkin’s The Building, Celia de Freine Blood Debts, Mary Kennan Herbert’s Skin Man series, as well as a presentation on Poetry, Psychoanalysis and Ageing, and a discussion around the evidence for the benefits […]