Resources
[A Non Exhaustive List]
radical accessibility / Crip aesthetics
Accessibility As A Creative Practice, Patricia Kalidonis
Disability Poetics – introductory essay & a great collection of poems
The Future of Design Is Designing for Disability | The Nation (link to google doc)
Cripping the Arts: It’s About Time
28 Movies, Books, TV Shows (and More) That Explore Disability Culture – The New York Times
Podcast: Accessibility as a Radical Creative Practice
Long Live the Disabled Artist, Long Live the Disabled Artist(s), Alison Bergblom Johnson
Disability Visibility, Alice Wong
Assistive or Artistic Technologies? Exploring the Connections between Art, Disability and Wheelchair Use, Giulia Barbareschi and Masa Inakage
Mixed Feelings (Radio Show Series – interviews with many disabled artists)
Diverse Artists, Diverse Audiences, Mariana Lemos
Criptech and the Art of Access, Leonardo Journal, MIT Press, Vol 57, No. 2
Artists to check out
Resistance & Respiration (curated group show)
The National Disability Arts Collection and Archive
Captions
To read:
The Radical Accessibility of Video Art (for Hearing People) Emily Watlington
Alison O’Daniel, How To Caption
To watch /look at / listen:
Carolyn Lazard, A Recipe for Disaster, 2018, 29 mins, color, sound with open captions
Christine Sun Kim, Closer Captions, 2020, 7:46, color, sound with open captions
Cecilia Vicuña, Fire Over Water, 2014, 6:49 mins, color, sound, with open captions
Shana Moulton, Whispering Pines 6, 2006, 5:45 mins, color, sound, with open captions
Jordan Lord, After… After… (Access), 2018, 16 mins, HD video
John Baldessari, The Meaning of Various News Photos to Ed Henderson, 1973, 15 mins, b&w, sound, with open captions
Constantina Zavitanos and Amalle Dublon, April 4, 1980, 2018, 3:32 mins, open captions, closed image, sound
Alison O’Daniel, Boom (2019)
Alison O’Daniel, [The Tuba Thieves] clip & interview
Audio Description / sound
To watch/Look at/Listen:
Phyllis Baldino, Absence is Present: Dead Nature in the Dark, 2010, 2:36 min, color, silent, with audio descriptions (*be sure to watch both versions: the silent and the version with audio descriptions. The artist worked with EAI to incorporate the audio descriptions)
Wu Tsang, Shape of a Right Statement, 2008, 5:15 mins, color sound
Aislinn Thomas, A Piece of Cloth Held Taut, sound, variable durations
to read:
Andy Slater, What Was It Like Being Blind At An Art School?
Hannah Thompson, Audio Description: Turning Access to Film into Cinema Art Vol 38 No. 3 (2018) Disability Studies Quarterly
Louise Fryer, Staging the Audio Describer: An Exploration of Integrated Audio Description Vol 38 No. 3 (2018) Disability Studies Quarterly
Ways Of Seeing Art: Exploring the Link Between Art and Audio Description (collection of short, excellent essays)
Hear the Dance: Audio Description Comes of Age, The New York Times, 10/11/2023
Tactile Graphics
to read & LOOK AT:
Brazilian Artist Creates Graffiti for the Visually Impaired
Life: A Tactile Comic, by Philipp Meyer (2013)
Drawing / NOtation
Six Types of Waiting in Berlin, Christine Sun Kim
TOUCH OBJECTS & Tactile Art
Bell Bronzes: Reflections on a Blind Visual Arts Practice, Aaron McPeake
The Art of Touch: Lending a Hand to the Sighted Majority, Georgina Kleege
Lenora Rosenfield, Relief (2018)
Please Touch the Art: This Artist Creates Tactile Portraits for the Blind
Game Design
Steve Saylor’s Top 3 Games for Accessibility
Plain Language
A Font!