LEONARDOPub Date : 2024-01-24DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02496
Olivia Ting
{"title":"Between Piano and Forte: Hearing with Aids","authors":"Olivia Ting","doi":"10.1162/leon_a_02496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02496","url":null,"abstract":"The author connects reviving her piano practice after a 20-year hiatus with her deaf right ear “learning” to hear again with a cochlear implant. She touches upon parallels between the physiology of the instrument and her own body, and how they inform the inquiry for her Leonardo CripTech Incubator/Thoughtworks residency project Song Without Words.","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139582967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LEONARDOPub Date : 2024-01-24DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02495
Meesh Fradkin
{"title":"Plus noise unlock","authors":"Meesh Fradkin","doi":"10.1162/leon_a_02495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02495","url":null,"abstract":"What happens when speech synthesis applications are incompatible with certain software? This essay considers how inaccessibility within the software and programming language Max is sonically, aesthetically, culturally, and ideologically amplified through a case study of “plus noise unlock,” which is the sound made by the author’s computer when she attempts to use a screen reader within a patcher window.","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"393 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139582852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LEONARDOPub Date : 2024-01-24DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02502
Megan A. Johnson, Eliza Chandler, Carla Rice
{"title":"Resisting Normality with Cultural Accessibility and Slow Technology","authors":"Megan A. Johnson, Eliza Chandler, Carla Rice","doi":"10.1162/leon_a_02502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02502","url":null,"abstract":"Although the COVID-19 virus continues to circulate, there is an increasing insistence that the world “return to normal.” In this paper the authors resist this pull to normalcy and the way it devalues the knowledges, vitality, and livelihoods of disabled people. They examine the crip technoscience practices used during the 2022 digital gathering Practicing the Social: Entanglements of Art and Social Justice, situating them as examples of cultural accessibility that engage with slow technology to provoke crip(ped) ways of being in time. They argue that sustained engagement with cultural accessibility offers a different path through the pandemic, one that centers access and resists the way necropolitics devalues disabled life.","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139582855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LEONARDOPub Date : 2024-01-24DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02500
Ysolde Stienon, Marina Tsaplina
{"title":"Primitive way country come look inside","authors":"Ysolde Stienon, Marina Tsaplina","doi":"10.1162/leon_a_02500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02500","url":null,"abstract":"A disabled poet with Rett syndrome and a disabled performing artist with Type 1 diabetes document their 12-month artistic collaboration to illuminate ground-time: the nonverbal, expressive dynamics of embodied communication. Five “communication moments” between the artists (documented in writing, video, and photo) are described. Potentials and limitations of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) technologies, specifically Tobii Dynavox eye-tracking technology and Communicator 5, are discussed. Additionally, the authors question the clinical diagnostic category of “intellectual disability” on the grounds of disability justice, decolonial science and philosophy. Communication-assistive technology platform developers are challenged to consider relational embodiment as the foundation of communication in design decisions regarding platform function. Technologies should facilitate improvisation and nonlinear expression—verbal and nonverbal— while maintaining freedom of non-disclosure. The right to opacity in communication is also discussed.","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139582974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LEONARDOPub Date : 2024-01-24DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02497
Indira Allegra, Allison Leigh Holt
{"title":"How Can It Not Know What It Is?: Remembering Disability as Part of the Whole","authors":"Indira Allegra, Allison Leigh Holt","doi":"10.1162/leon_a_02497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02497","url":null,"abstract":"How Can It Not Know What It Is? is a conversation that uses the revered sci-fi film Blade Runner (1982) as a frame to explore the role of memory and affirming disabled identity in collective human experience, specifically concerning technology, the power of self-knowledge, and how these concepts intersect with capitalism and contemporary politics. In an open conversation excerpted here, the artist-authors discuss what it means to be wholly human, navigating subjects from memory to extended cognition, from national mythology to the ethics of AI.","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139582977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LEONARDOPub Date : 2024-01-24DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02499
Erika-Jean Lincoln
{"title":"Crip-Techno-Tinkerism: A Neurodivergent Learning Style Meets Machine Learning","authors":"Erika-Jean Lincoln","doi":"10.1162/leon_a_02499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02499","url":null,"abstract":"The artist discusses the development of their crip-techno-tinkerism methodology and its application to machine learning. They outline how their tinkering with the creation of datasets and the manipulation of transfer learning within machine learning models can reflect the diversity of neurodivergent learning.","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139583072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LEONARDOPub Date : 2024-01-24DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02501
Aminder Virdee
{"title":"Staring Back: Hacking Intersectional Oppression through Eco-Crip: Cybotanical Futures","authors":"Aminder Virdee","doi":"10.1162/leon_a_02501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02501","url":null,"abstract":"The author discusses their transmedia art installation, Eco-Crip: Cybotanical Futures (2021), as a site that critically explores and re-worlds the intersectional oppressions faced by disabled BIPOC individuals—centering on their own identity and complex lived experiences. Through a re-worlding lens, the artwork harnesses autoethnography, disability justice, and critical theory to confront and reclaim lifelong systemic oppression and medical surveillance, integrating computational art and digital painting to reconstruct medically quantified bioimaging and South Asian botanical archives into alternative “Cybotanical” futures. The author traces this work back to their earlier piece, ‘Keep This Leaflet. You May Need to Read It Again’ (2014), a seminal creation in their criptech journey. Eco-Crip: Cybotanical Futures embraces a DIY ethos to hack and decolonize archives and technologies, navigating multifaceted meaning-making where beauty and pain converge—mapping new frontiers of crip technoscience art that challenges various systems of power and their associated gazes.","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139582844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LEONARDOPub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02489
Aimi Hamraie, Kevin Gotkin
{"title":"Remote Access: Crip Nightlife, Artistry, and Technoscience","authors":"Aimi Hamraie, Kevin Gotkin","doi":"10.1162/leon_a_02489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02489","url":null,"abstract":"Beginning in 2020, Kevin Gotkin spearheaded the virtual Remote Access disability nightlife events. Aimi Hamraie directs the Critical Design Lab and coined the term “crip technoscience.” Here, Hamraie interviews Gotkin about genesis of this disability arts and culture party into an ongoing experiment in critical access-making. They focus on the elements of artistic production, presentation, and exhibition that required crip technoscience interventions before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138825733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LEONARDOPub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02488
Laura Forlano, Itziar Barrio
{"title":"From Data Doubles to Data Demons: Reflections on a CripTech Collaboration","authors":"Laura Forlano, Itziar Barrio","doi":"10.1162/leon_a_02488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02488","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes a collaboration between Laura Forlano and Itziar Barrio around a series of robotic sculptures that were created by Barrio with data from Forlano’s “smart” insulin pump and sensor system. Forlano, a Type 1 diabetic for over 10 years, has written previously about her experience as a “disabled cyborg”. As CripTech art, the robotic sculptures, discussed here as data demons, complicate and expand contemporary discourses on artificial intelligence and design.By engaging themes such as data as labor, data as material, and data as relations this piece ultimately argues that both people and technologies are disabled.","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138827016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LEONARDOPub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02490
Darrin Martin
{"title":"Experimental Modalities: Crip Representation and Access with Electronic Arts Intermix","authors":"Darrin Martin","doi":"10.1162/leon_a_02490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02490","url":null,"abstract":"The author in collaboration with Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), a non-profit video arts distributor and organization, partner to find ways in which videos in EAI’s collection may reflect upon themes of disability and/or engage modes of access like captioning and audio description. This research and the author’s own interest in conceptual and performance practices found in moving image works that have broadly been tethered to the word experimental, have been situated to engage with accessibility even for the works which resist and challenge the very nature of legibility. This essay acts as the authors first attempt to explore an archive to identify video artworks that represent disability (whether deliberately or not) and/or present alternative modes of access (whether deliberately or not) with the intent of laying a groundwork for curations that tap into possibilities within accessibility formats.","PeriodicalId":46524,"journal":{"name":"LEONARDO","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138825740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}