Recording CripTech

Recording CripTech archives artist practices from Leonardo CripTech Incubator (2021-2023) and its final exhibition, E.A.A.T. or Experiments in Art, Access and Technology. These artists are: Meesh Sara Fradkin, Carmen Papalia, Josephine Sales, Andy Slater, and Olivia Ting.

With this archive, Ground Works hopes to both support these artists’ ongoing work, as well as make their processes available to those who want to explore these processes at the convergence of art, research, technology, creativity, collaboration, and the unique intersectional identities of the artists represented by this work. The artists themselves are co-creators of this archive, and we strive to make it accessible, by making it open-access and by taking into account the differing abilities of potential users.

Where to start

This archive contains a range of accessible multimedia that represents the processes, outcomes and experiences of five artists in residence with the CripTech Incubator. There is a lot to explore, so where should you begin?

Starting points

If you’re new to the CripTech Incubator, we recommend starting by exploring the E.A.A.T. — Experiments in Art, Access and Technology — exhibit page. This represents the culminating exhibit for the residency program that took place at the Beall Center for Art & Technology at U.C. Irvine (Sept 2023-Jan 2024). Starting here will give you a sense of E.A.A.T. as a show and the individual artists’ work.

Artist Processes

Each of the artists also have an exhibit page. This curates their process artefacts, reflections and interviews to provide access to how they worked and their experiences within the CripTech artist residency and Incubator. You can view pages for:

  • Meesh Sara Fradkin is a writer and artist working with sound, text and media. The archive focuses on babbel, a voice-activated sculpture listens to the formation of speech and explores the loss of meaning in buzzwords.
  • Josephine Sales works through moving image, sculpture, text, and sound proposing questions, yearnings and learnings on disability, debility, dependency, and disablement. The exhibit page centers on Total Running Time, an installation comprised of four distinct works.
  • Olivia Ting is a hard of hearing visual artist, designer, photographer, video projectionist, and pianist Song Without Words. An immersive multi-channel projection, Song Without Words renders the gestural continuities between piano, musical conducting and sign language to redefine the phenomenological experience of listening.
  • Andy Slater is a blind Chicago-based media artist, writer, performer, and Disability advocate. In Unseen Sound, Andy Slater uses spatial audio as a wayfinding tool to remap and reorient lived experiences of real and virtual space.

Browsable Archive

Alternatively, you might start with the “Browse” section where you can move through the raw materials of the collection. In the Browse view, you can examine the ‘atoms’ of process, products and reflections that make up this archive. You can also filtered, sort and search the archive for things of interest to you.

This archive is developed with Wax, a minimal computing project for producing digital exhibitions focused on longevity, low costs, and flexibility.