Veronica Stanich

Reco(r)ding CripTech documents the creative processes of five artists from the disability community in their art-and-technology residencies with the Leonardo CripTech Incubator. The resulting digital archive will include artifacts of their processes such as notes and drafts as well as recorded reflections, and will be fully accessible on the Ground Works online platform. The next phase of the project is to expand through four specific objectives: 1) Disabled-led User and Accessibility Testing; 2) Curriculum development; 3) Expansion of the archive; 4) Special Edition of Ground Works.This project supports the artists’ evolving practices, captures the experience to inform future access-centered artmaking and archiving, and centers diverse ways of knowing and instantiating knowledge.

Reco(r)ding CripTech documents the creative, interdisciplinary processes of six artists from the disability community in their art-and-technology residencies with the CripTech Incubator. The resulting archive will be fully accessible on the Ground Works online platform. Our working process emphasizes voice, agency, and aesthetic access, and is based on principles of disability justice. This project supports the artists’ in their evolving practices, captures the experience to inform future access-centered artmaking and archiving, and centers diverse ways of knowing and instantiating knowledge. We expect Reco(r)ding CripTech to contribute to a paradigm shift in our understanding of “research” by redefining who produces knowledge, how they do it, and how that knowledge is represented.