Cripping Technology
Performing Arts Librarian
Welcome
Welcome! This guide is intended as a companion for the Cripping Technology Humanities Lab for Fall 2023.
This site aims to start a dialogue and provide resources around cripping technology, artistry, accessibility, and aims to take an expansive approach to research. We aspire toward a future of discovery and creative worldbuilding to develop more humane solutions.
Each tab moves provides resources within the library that support inquiry around disability, arts-based research, and disability justice,
This is a living document that will be continually updated with new information.
Course description
This course is part of a series of Humanities Labs called Leonardo Labs. Inspired by Leonardo’s CripTech Incubator – featuring a selection of six disabled artists who are creating and showcasing work in art and technology – students will reimagine enshrined notions of how a body-mind can move, look, and communicate. Through arts-integrated research into disability justice, students will engage and remake creative technologies through the lens of accessibility and the tools of critical worldbuilding.
Critical worldbuilding allows for previsualization, ideation, and narrative development in media production for entertainment and social justice. Focusing on disability culture and justice, student teams will apply this methodology – that utilizes play, comedy, embodied knowledge, design of space, investigations into the future, and collaborative imagination – to ignite the flames of creativity and co-build robust worlds, with partners from within the disabled community, that explore a challenge or opportunity they face.
Course Readings
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Care Work
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Finalist, Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centres the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Leah writes passionately and personally about creating spaces by and for sick and disabled queer people of colour, and creative "collective access" -- access not as a chore but as a collective responsibility and pleasure -- in our communities and political movements. Bringing their survival skills and knowledge from years of cultural and activist work, Piepzna-Samarasinha explores everything from the economics of queer femme emotional labour, to suicide in queer and trans communities, to the nitty-gritty of touring as a sick and disabled queer artist of colour. Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of colour are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a toolkit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities of liberation where no one is left behind. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms.
ISBN: 1551527383Publication date: 2018-10-30
