Resources

[A Non Exhaustive List]

radical accessibility / Crip aesthetics

Accessibility As A Creative Practice, Patricia Kalidonis

Access as a Creative Tool 

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

Christine Sun Kim

Up Until Now Collective

Sugandha Gupta

Emilie Louise Gossiaux

JJJJJerome Ellis

Aaron McPeake

Ann Cunningham

Liza Sylvestre

Carmen Papalia

mimi khúc

Carolyn Lazard

Andy Slater

Claire Spector

Sharona Franklin

Darrin Martin 

Athena Cooper

Alison Bergblom Johnson

Patricia Kalidonis

Resistance & Respiration (curated group show) 

Autism Through Cinema 

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: 

Sonic Paintings 

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 AgeThe New York Times, 10/11/2023

Tactile Graphics

to read & LOOK AT: 

Tactile Graphics, Polly Edman

Art Beyond Sight

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

Hemingway Editor 

A Font!

504 Font