Image Description: JJ, a middle-aged white guy with silver hair and a silver beard, stands in downtown Toronto wearing a pink Hawaiian shirt bedecked with pelicans, an aqua and white ball cap adorned with a pineapple, and dark reflective sunglasses. Wearing a lanyard, he holds up a microphone while a woman in a blue wetsuit sits on a dangling iceberg behind him.
JJ Hunt is an award-winning describer, narrator, and storyteller with over twenty years’ experience creating description for film, television, fine arts, live events, podcasts, and interactive workshops. He has worked with CBC Television, AMItv, The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, SFMoMA, The Pan Am Games, The Obama Presidential Center, National Geographic, World Pride, and NASA. His descriptions of the visual world can be heard on LuminoCity, and on the innovative podcast Talk Description to Me.
**Creativity in the Evolving Art of Description October 9, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Presenters: Christine Malec and JJ Hunt Location: Studio 1** Description can be so much more than Audio Description tracks and alt texts. Description user and creator Christine Malec, and description writer and narrator JJ Hunt will discuss the creative side of description, drawing on their experiences such as description-rich podcasting, drafting Science Integrated Descriptions for NASA, and tapping into their inner storytellers to describe dance. They will share practical insights on finding creative uses for AI, identifying opportunities to innovate, and developing the descriptive talents of a diverse team, so that you can create descriptive offerings that are relevant and engaging to the Blind and Low Vision community.