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This site organizes and aggregates a wide range of media content — from images to 3D scans, from video to interviews — that represents the processes, practices and outcomes of artists who took part in Leonardo’s CripTech Incubator.

The collection items are donated by the artists themselves, by Leonardo/ISAST and the Beall Center for Art and Technology, and captured from public events, exhibitions, and activities surrounding the Incubator. Artist-led and co-constructed: we respect each artist’s wishes about how their work is represented, cited, and shared.

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This is a living archive of media donated by each of the artists, as well as representations of themselves in video, image, and audio. The development of the archive has been artist-led, co-constructed with each of the contributing artists. We respect each artist's wishes about how their work is represented, cited, and shared.

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Much of this media is Creative Commons and open for use. But because we honor each artist's control over their own work, media may be removed or edited, or its metadata adjusted, from time to time.
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BEACON 6

audio · Andy Slater

Air Vent 1

audio · Andy Slater

BEACON

audio · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 1 Shot 10

audio · Andy Slater

Air Vent 11

audio · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background including small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-22,50, -143", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field labeled "CHAT", text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit”.

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.05.58 PM

image · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "you will encounter all kinds of different sounds." In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "74, 50, 403", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit”.

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.05.18 PM

image · Andy Slater

Screenreader

audio · Andy Slater
An interactive web-based installation of Unseen Sound by Andy Slater, built with New Art City. Designed as a nonvisual experience, the work uses spatial audio and text to guide visitors through an imagined sonic environment, foregrounding listening as a mode of navigation, access, and worldbuilding. This is the same experience that was used in the exhibition, with the computer in the gallery set to this web interactive. However, whereas in the exhibition at the Beall Center visitors either heard sound through headphones or viewed captions, here there is an integrated experience with both sound and captions that Slater describes as "a non-visual experience accompanied by real-time captions.”

Unseen Sound - Interactive Web Experience

embed · Andy Slater

BEACON 11

audio · Andy Slater

BEACON 22

audio · Andy Slater

BREATHING OUT SMOKE

audio · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "Dozens of heating ventilation air conditioning units (HVAC) form a wall." In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-435, 50, -795", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.07.09 PM

image · Andy Slater
Visual description forthcoming.

CAANH readme from 2020

document · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "Gypsum dust and debris cascade off and on to the floor. Between the ears a pin drops." In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-947, 50, -2071", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.09.39 PM

image · Andy Slater
A dark screen with a user interface for a digital environmentvirtual gallerytitled "Unseen Sound" by Andy Slater. The center of the screen shows instructions for movement using 'WASD' or arrow keys, looking around with the mouse, and accessing the menu with the escape key. There is a prompt at the top reading "Click anywhere to enter the gallery." Below the instructions are icons for a guestbook, screenshot tool, and catalog, as well as a slider to adjust art volume. In the bottom left corner, a chat interface shows "2 Friends Online" and a field to type messages.

Instructions for navigating Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 8.55.57 PM

image · Andy Slater

Crypto Acoustic Auditory Non-Hallucination

audio · Andy Slater
Visual description forthcoming.

Unseen Sound Documentation (Final Version)

video · Andy Slater
Screenshot of a macOS desktop with multiple open windows, one is a Finder window with folders and files with the file “Sinewaves alias” selected, another is a Finder window with Applications, another is an update notification for Keyboard Maestro software. The desktop background is red, various folders and files lie on the right side of the desktop, and the dock with various application icons is visible on the right side of the screen.

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.02.06 PM

image · Andy Slater

DING 5

audio · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital environment with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "ACCESS BUFFERING” in uppercase letters. In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-22,50, -143", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.07.13 PM

image · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 15

audio · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 1 Shot 5

audio · Andy Slater

CAANH game

other · Andy Slater

BEACON 24

audio · Andy Slater

BEACON 20

audio · Andy Slater

Air Vent

audio · Andy Slater

DING 1

audio · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "As the breath becomes a drone.” and “ACCESS BUFFERING” in uppercase letters. In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-545.50, -1010", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.07.59 PM

image · Andy Slater

DING 4

audio · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 6

audio · Andy Slater

BEACON 1

audio · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 8

audio · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 1 Shot 12

audio · Andy Slater

Breathing out smoke in a dark room (Binaural Mix)

audio · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 1 Shot 11

audio · Andy Slater

ACCESS DENIED 1

audio · Andy Slater

CRABS

audio · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "Another.” In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-958, 50, -2117", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.09.44 PM

image · Andy Slater

ACCESS BUFFERING 1

audio · Andy Slater

Air Vent 6

audio · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 12

audio · Andy Slater

BEACON 13

audio · Andy Slater

Air Vent 9

audio · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "Air vent number 17 is tuned to the frequency of your most darkest of secrets.” Below it, there's nonsensical text reading "hiohihioioighgsa varusch varusch varusch vaurausch." In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-383, 50, -658", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.06.46 PM

image · Andy Slater
Gameplay demonstration

Crypto acoustic auditory non-hallucination game demo

video · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "bouncy bullets high” and “static burst.” In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-37, 50, -176", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.06.03 PM

image · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 2

audio · Andy Slater

Air Vent 5

audio · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 1 Shot 7

audio · Andy Slater

Air Vent 7

audio · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "Dozens of heating ventilation air conditioning units (HVAC) form a wall.” In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-188, 50, -454", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.06.24 PM

image · Andy Slater

Air Vent 18

audio · Andy Slater

DING 3

audio · Andy Slater

BEACON 27

audio · Andy Slater
Screenshot of a MacOS desktop interface with multiple overlapping windows open, including a Finder window showing a list of applications, a pop-up notification about a software update for 'Keyboard Maestro', and a small preview of an MP3 file labeled 'upgrade device 1.mp3' selected. The desktop background is red, various folders and files lie on the right side of the desktop, and the Dock is visible on the right side with various application icons.

Andy’s multiple windows 2023-11-02 at 8.59.08 PM

image · Andy Slater

Air Vent 12

audio · Andy Slater

DING 7

audio · Andy Slater

Interview with Andy and Whisper (New Art City)

audio · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 1

audio · Andy Slater

Air Vent 13

audio · Andy Slater

BEACON 17

audio · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 1 Shot 1

audio · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "Forced air.” In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-188, 50, -454", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.06.21 PM

image · Andy Slater
An archive (or backup copy) of the E.A.A.T Site page for Unseen Sound. Page archived at the request of the artist, Andy Slater. Original page can be found at: <a href="https://leonardo.info/criptech/eaat/unseen-sound">https://leonardo.info/criptech/eaat/unseen-sound</a>

Leonardo/ISAST Microsite for E.A.A.T’s Unseen Sound

embed · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 3

audio · Andy Slater
Unseen Sound is a spatial audio-based XR experience developed by blind artist Andy Slater, with Virtual Access Lab and New Art City virtual art space. The piece spotlights creative access and disability solidarity while producing new technical infrastructure. Created during the Leonardo “Crip Tech” fellowship, this project challenges conventional accessibility in technology by integrating sonic way-finding, poetic captions, and custom controllers designed for universal use. It addresses the oversight of blind people in tech design processes, providing an immersive experience accessible to a wide audience, including those who are blind, deaf, hard of hearing and neurodivergent. Speakers: Andy Slater | Artist and Researcher, Virtual Access Lab Sammie Veeler | Founder, Virtual Access Lab

Unseen Sound at the XR Access Symposium 2024

video · Andy Slater

Air Vent 3

audio · Andy Slater

DING 2

audio · Andy Slater

BEACON 4

audio · Andy Slater
Screenshot of a macOS desktop with multiple open windows, one is a Finder window with folders and files with the file “Sinewaves alias” selected, another is a Finder window with Applications, another is an update notification for Keyboard Maestro software. The desktop background is red, various folders and files lie on the right side of the desktop, and the dock with various application icons is visible on the right side at the bottom of the screen.

Andy’s multiple windows 2023-11-02 at 8.56.57 PM

image · Andy Slater

Air Vent 14

audio · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "The roller ball of a white cane spins in one ear and then the next” and a series of disjointed words such as "uip," "uipop," and "hattaghattas-gattaviritus." In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-383, 50, -658", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.06.54 PM

image · Andy Slater

Entry VO

audio · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 4

audio · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "There’s no time limit to Unseen Sound so get lost until you get bored.” In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-74, 50, 403", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.05.30 PM

image · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "Air vent number 17 is tuned to the frequency of your most darkest of secrets.” and a nonsencil text reading, “oip oip oip oip oip oi pt oipt oip oip oipt oiptey ye tee tee gee yeeyy, havrusch davroosh, haverusch, gavviuusch." In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-383, 50, -658", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.06.48 PM

image · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "the aggressive sanding becomes more of an exploratory touch than a contractor’s job.” In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "--885, 50, -2007", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.09.25 PM

image · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 7

audio · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 1 Shot 3

audio · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "Steadily.” and “ACCESS BUFFERING” in uppercase letters. In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-541, 50, -1001", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.07.48 PM

image · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 5

audio · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "Up and in, on the 1 and 3.” In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-716, 50, -1501", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.08.50 PM

image · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "from ancient bottles.” In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-41, 50, 100", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.05.50 PM

image · Andy Slater

Air Vent 16

audio · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 1 Shot 8

audio · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "In one ear then the next and back and so,”. In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-885, 50, -2007", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.09.19 PM

image · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 13

audio · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "concluding with a smack of the ceiling” and the letter ’o’ repeating in various configurations and hyphens. In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-399, 50, -693", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.07.00 PM

image · Andy Slater

DING 9

audio · Andy Slater

Air Vent 4

audio · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 1 Shot 2

audio · Andy Slater

Unseen Sound Sketch (8 mins)

audio · Andy Slater

ACCESS BUFFERING 2

audio · Andy Slater

CAANH demo

other · Andy Slater

BEACON 16

audio · Andy Slater

DING 10

audio · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 1 Shot 13

audio · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "They wheeze like gravel.” In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-529, 59, -1040", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.07.38 PM

image · Andy Slater

Air Vent 2

audio · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 11

audio · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 1 Shot 4

audio · Andy Slater

BEACON 25

audio · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "The book is closed forever, ACCESS DENIED.” In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-565, 50, -1042", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.08.17 PM

image · Andy Slater

ACCESS DENIED 2

audio · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "A thin mist circles as scarred lungs inhale.” and “ACCESS BUFFERING” in uppercase letters. In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-509, 50, -994", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.07.29 PM

image · Andy Slater

MAIN COARSE

audio · Andy Slater

BEACON 14

audio · Andy Slater

BEACON 10

audio · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 10

audio · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "Clockwork hammers smack tiny anvils, making robots march.” and “ACCESS BUFFERING” in uppercase letters. In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-676, 50, -1410", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.08.42 PM

image · Andy Slater

BEACON 19

audio · Andy Slater
A dense field of intersecting lines in white, yellow, and red moves horizontally and diagonally across a black ground. The lines vary between rigid geometric segments and loose, looping gestures, suggesting layered pathways or signal routes. Small scattered dots punctuate the space, implying intermittent sonic events or sparks within a larger network. The composition reads as a chaotic but intentional mapping of overlapping trajectories.

Dungeon Blueprint #1

image · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "’In my sleep I dream of cicadas and the snapping claws of angry crabs. A tiny nail plummets to the floor.” and “BEEP” in uppercase letters. In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-100, 50, -2188", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.09.53 PM

image · Andy Slater
A more instructional layout combining text and symbols. Handwritten phrases such as 'thunder train,' 'midnight sky,' and 'behind glass' appear alongside arrows, loops, and directional lines. A circular motion is drawn on the left, while parallel arrows extend horizontally on the right. Small clustered marks indicate points of activity. The layout suggests spatial behaviors—circling, passing, muffling—and conditional listening zones.

Dungeon Blueprint #2

image · Andy Slater
A sparse composition with isolated text and symbols arranged diagonally. Words like 'start spawn,' 'shadow,' and references to pulses appear near small geometric icons. The marks feel like triggers or cues dispersed in space. The minimal density suggests specific activation points rather than continuous movement, emphasizing discrete sonic events.

Dungeon Blueprint #3

image · Andy Slater
A structured diagram centered on layering. Text describes lines placed tightly together forming zigzags and parallel structures, building into a 'wall' with multiple layers. White angled lines repeat in stacked formations on both sides, framing a central cluster of colored dots. The imagery conveys accumulation, density, and echoing interactions, with notes referencing looping and reflections.

Dungeon Blueprint #4

image · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 1 Shot 9

audio · Andy Slater
A composition dominated by angular red and white pathways that form irregular geometric shapes. Yellow looping lines weave through these structures, creating contrast between rigid boundaries and fluid motion. Small dots appear intermittently, acting as nodes or points of interaction. The overall feel is of mapped zones with embedded dynamic gestures.

Dungeon Blueprint #5

image · Andy Slater
A network of thicker, more continuous lines forming larger connected shapes. Red pathways dominate, intersected by white and occasional yellow lines. The lines bend and branch, creating enclosed and semi-enclosed regions. The composition suggests a system of corridors or channels, with subtle textural variations indicating movement or flow.

Dungeon Blueprint #6

image · Andy Slater

COMPUTER GAME

audio · Andy Slater
A composition with a mix of curved and angular elements. Yellow zigzag forms intersect with red linear paths, while white outlines define irregular shapes. Dotted arcs and clusters suggest radiating or pulsing energy. The arrangement feels like a spatial map of interactions, with directional crossings and layered motion paths.

Dungeon Blueprint #7

image · Andy Slater

DING 11

audio · Andy Slater

DING 8

audio · Andy Slater

ACCESS DENIED 3

audio · Andy Slater

Air Vent 10

audio · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 14

audio · Andy Slater

BEACON 8

audio · Andy Slater

DING 6

audio · Andy Slater
This is a Descriptive Transcript designed to provide access for all readers to the full contents—audio, image, and text. Originally appeared in the McSWEENEY’S 64 - THE AUDIO ISSUE. <a href="https://audio.mcsweeneys.net/transcripts/crypto_acoustic.html">https://audio.mcsweeneys.net/transcripts/crypto_acoustic.html</a> Reproduced with the permission of Andy Slater.

Crypto Acoustic Auditory Non-Hallucination - Descriptive Transcript

embed · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "Inside each vent hides a copper-made copperhead.” and the letter ‘o’ repeating. In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-383, 50, -558", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.06.39 PM

image · Andy Slater

Air Vent 8

audio · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 1 Shot 6

audio · Andy Slater

Air Vent 15

audio · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "Fizz and crackle.” and “fallingcube.” In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-73, 50, -160", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.”

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.06.07 PM

image · Andy Slater
A screenshot of a digital art space with a deep blue background with white text against a black background in the center reading "putting back in a bottle,” “Pressure pops corks,” and “a balloon deflates.” In the environment is also small white text in the top left corner with the numbers "-383, 50, -558", a lower-left widget reading "3 Friends Online: miss-sammie, funny tendency, and funny tendency", a text input field with a "CHAT" button, text reading "Your username is funny_tendency,” and text in the top right corner reading "New_Art_City - Virtual Art Space" and “Esc to Exit.

Screen Shot of Unseen Sound 2023-11-02 at 9.05.40 PM

image · Andy Slater

ACCESS BUFFERING 3

audio · Andy Slater

BEACON 5

audio · Andy Slater

Pop Swamp 9

audio · Andy Slater
Experiments in Art, Access and Technology, or E.A.A.T. chronicles the emergence of access as an animating principle of art, science, and technology. From participatory audio description to captions that evoke poetry, access is being reimagined as an expressive form that catalyzes new sensory possibilities for artistic experience. Despite their multimodal capacities, many media art tools remain inaccessible and have yet to benefit from this creative attention. E.A.A.T. introduces methods in art and technology that embody lived experiences of disability. E.A.A.T. Co-curators share their experience and insights.

Experiments in Art, Access & Technology (E.A.A.T.) Curatorial Interview

video · CripTech Incubator
The CripTech Incubator’s origins and goals are explained in this video of curators Vanessa Chang and Lindsey Dolich Felt.

CripTech Incubator Introductory Video

video · CripTech Incubator
&quot;Recoding CripTech&quot; was an exhibition at SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco, which ran from 23 January 2020 to 25 February 2020. By highlighting the work of artists with disabilities who &quot;crip&quot; or hack creative technologies to make the more accessible and inclusive, the show reimagined what a body-mind can be, or do, and how it can look, or communicate.

Recoding CripTech (Preview video)

video · CripTech Incubator
Visual description forthcoming.

Pain Series 4, Carmen Papalia

video · EAAT Exhibition
Visitor with pale hands is interacting with a joystick and buttons on a controller. There is a headphone amp with lights on directly in front of the controller. To the left of the controller is a QR code.

Visitor manipulates joystick interface in Unseen Sound

image · EAAT Exhibition
Monitor in the center showcasing an X-ray image of a female body on a zoom call. At the bottom of the monitor hangs a pair of headphones that connect to the monitor. To the right are two wall text blurbs.

Monitor showing Carmen Papalia’s Pain Series 5

image · EAAT Exhibition
A vintage wooden radio casing is displayed on a white pedestal. The back panel of the radio is removed, exposing its internal electronic components, including metallic boxes, wiring, and a circular tuning mechanism. The wooden casing has a curved design with horizontal grooves along the interior, showing signs of age and wear. There are small labels and markings on the internal components, including a serial code (2076112) and other technical specifications, suggesting that this is an authentic historical piece. Handwritten markings are visible on the bottom wooden edge of the radio. The background consists of a softly lit exhibition space with translucent black curtains

Vintage radio open at the back, Song Without Words by Olivia Ting

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Room with a circular table against the back wall. A chair sits in front of the table, facing the wall. A large monitor displays text “Some of them will be loud and some of them will be quiet” Across from the monitor is a short bench.

Unseen Sound by Andy Slater

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Multi-tiered suspended wooden chandelier with plastic tubes spilling outwards over the sides. There are four speakers and two microphones integrated into the sculpture.

Close-up of central chandelier in Meesh Sara Fradkin’s babbel.

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The image features a dark floating shelf mounted on a white wall, containing various self-care and comfort items. On the left side, there is a blue gel ice pack with black straps, stacked on top of folded soft fabric, including a white plush item and dark-colored clothing.In the center, there are two red bags of Maynards Wine Gums and a small blue tin with sewing needles and thread. Behind them, there's a pack of Dandelion Leaf & Root Tea. To the right, there are multiple boxes of Welly bandages in pastel-colored packaging.Further right, there is a soft navy blue sock, a green spiky massage ball, a small box of matches, and a red pouch with a translucent pink object on top. Above this shelf, another floating shelf is visible, holding personal care items, including massage oil and supplements.

Shelf 2, Pain Pals by Carmen Papalia

image · EAAT Exhibition
A gallery room with white walls, white ceiling, and a mottled concrete floor has a rectangular light source embedded in the right-side wall. There are large raised capital letters R, E, S, C, U on the left-side and back walls, and a white rectangular block seating in the center of the room.

Day for Night - Light Changes, Josephine Sales

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Pain Series 3, Carmen Papalia

video · EAAT Exhibition
Projected in white onto translucent black fabric, the words “Beethoven listened with his teeth” are written against a blurry image of a piano.

Still from Song without Words, by Olivia Ting

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PC Laptop with character gallery creator. The gallery has a blue background and the top part of a globe. Includes a button to add character and view characters. At the bottom reads "Pal Pals Alpha Build v1.1.0 -- All rights reserved”

Pain Pals character gallery creator by Carmen Papalia

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A Behringer C-2 condenser microphone is mounted on a wooden platform, surrounded by a dense network of clear plastic tubes. The microphone is securely fixed, with a black XLR cable running downward from its base. The wooden platform is supported by vertical rods and has various tubes weaving through and around it, some clamped with small red fasteners. The background is softly blurred, with warm ambient lighting casting reflections on the tubes, creating a sense of depth.

Microphone within the central chandelier, Babbel by Meesh Sara Fradkin

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An accessible alternative to the Matterport virtual tour of the E.A.A.T. exhibition. Reimagined as a text adventure game, it enables screen reader users to explore the exhibition space, navigate between artworks, and access descriptions that are unavailable in the online 3D experience.

Text Adventure Tour

embed · EAAT Exhibition

E.A.A.T. Experiential Exhibition Audio Description

audio · EAAT Exhibition
The image shows a printed document titled "Pain Pals Survey" by Carmen Papalia on a dark wooden surface. The page contains a series of reflective questions about pain, self-care, support systems, and societal perspectives on pain. The text is structured with bullet points, each prompting the reader to consider aspects such as how they describe pain, what brings comfort, and what a supportive environment might look like. The document has a slight curl at the top left corner. The lighting casts a soft shadow on the right side, emphasizing the texture of the paper and the dark wood grain underneath. The text is printed in a clean, readable font, and the document appears to be part of a take-home exercise encouraging deep personal reflection.

Pain Pals Survey by Carmen Papalia

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Two wooden vintage radios on white pedestals. The one in the background stands vertical, the one in the foreground is wide with three knobs.

Vintage radios emitting haptic vibrations

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An text description that tours the E.A.A.T. exhibition. It visually describes the exhibition space, the artists works and their arrangement within the Beall Gallery space.

E.A.A.T. Experiential Exhibition Text Description

document · EAAT Exhibition
A tablet mounted on a stand, displaying a website called "Weather for the Blind." The screen features a blue-toned interface with a streaming audio player and descriptive text explaining the project, which appears to involve sonifying weather data. A pair of black Sony headphones is hooked over the top-right corner of the tablet, with their cable hanging down and plugged into the device. The stand holding the tablet has a metal arm extending behind it, and a headphone jack cable is visibly connected to the top left of the tablet. The background is a neutral-colored wall. The lighting is soft and even, highlighting the screen's content without harsh reflections.

Weather for the Wind, Pain Pals by Carmen Papalia

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Two white sculptures atop a white rectangular pedestal in front of a white wall. Each sculpture consists of a dowel or pole with two regularly spaced circular platforms and a circular platform at the top. Thin white tubes cascade off the platforms in disarray. Black block letters on the pedestal say, “TOUCH ME.”

Touch Babbel, Meesh Sara Fradkin

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Total Running Time, a multisensory installation encompassing four works by Josephine Sales

Total Running Time by Josephine Sales

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5 sculptures, wooden frames threaded with masses of tubes hang from a ceiling grid framed by white gallery walls and white furniture. Three screens are mounted on the back wall.

Wide shot, Meesh Sara Fradkin’s babbel.

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A blonde haired woman and a brown haired woman stand together in the middle of the E.A.A.T. gallery space.

Curators at E.A.A.T

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A dark-haired woman in a denim jumpsuit stands between two pedestals, gently resting her hands on two wooden vintage radios.

Visitor interaction with hacked vintage radios

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Three pairs of black wireless headphones ist on individual charging docks on a white table against a plain white wall. The headphone are available for visitors to experience Olivia Ting's Song without Words. Each dock has a blue LED indicator light, suggesting that the headphones are powered on or charging. The headphones are identical in design, with padded ear cups and an adjustable headband. Several black cables run along the back of the table, connecting the docks to a power source.

Three bluetooth headphones, Song Without Words by Olivia Ting

image · EAAT Exhibition
Visual description forthcoming.

Virtual Walk through, Unseen Sound by Andy Slater

video · EAAT Exhibition
Projected in white onto translucent black fabric, a spray of letters pattern the blurry image of a piano player.

Still from Song without Words. Olivia Ting

image · EAAT Exhibition
A light box against a dark background. One half is emitting a bright amber glow resembling dawn’s warmer orange light. The other half is a cool white light.

Day for Night, Josephine Sales

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A printed sign taped to a white wall at the entrance to the E.A.A.T. exhibition . The sign has a light green background and features a large, bold title in black text: "WHY MASK?" Below the title, smaller black text reads: "Access this art using your phone." Above the title, there is a QR code, accompanied by a small curved arrow pointing to it, indicating that scanning it will provide access to the artwork. In the bottom right corner, there is a circular label with black text that reads: "by Claudia Alick".The sign is neatly taped, with the blue tape forming a frame around its edges.

Why Mask Sign and QR Code

image · EAAT Exhibition
Visual description forthcoming.

Pulses by Josephine Sales

video · EAAT Exhibition
The corner of a gallery room with white walls and a mottled concrete floor. There are large raised capital letters R, E, S, C, U on the walls and white rectangular block seating in the center of the room.

Rescue, Josephine Sales

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The image features a dark floating shelf mounted on a white wall, displaying a mix of books, self-care items, and personal essentials. On the left side, a green folded shirt rests beside a book titled Sea and Fog by Etel Adnan. Next to it, four comic books are standing upright: Daredevil: No Fear, Thor: Ragnarok, Astonishing X-Men, and The Walking Dead.To the right of the books, there is a fabric-covered tissue box with a red and green plaid pattern. Further right, personal care items are arranged, including a green glass cup with a straw, a bottle of eucalyptus massage oil, a container labeled Simple Blossom, a dropper bottle of glycogen supplement, and a bottle of Aveeno Stress Relief lotion.

Shelf 1, Pain Pals by Carmen Papalia

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The exterior of the Beall Center for Art and Technology, where the exhibition is taking place. The building's bright red facade prominently displays raised metallic lettering reading "Don and Joan Beall Center for Art and Technology" along with the street number 712. Above, a large blue banner for the "E.A.A.T." exhibition is affixed to the wall. The entrance to an exhibition space has bold red double doors opened to reveal a dark blue wall inside. The exhibition is titled "E.A.A.T.: Experiments in Art, Access & Technology", running from September 30, 2023, to January 13, 2024. The large text on the wall introduces the exhibition. The wall features a modern, minimal design with blue-green typography and a waveform graphic at the bottom. A smaller informational sign is mounted on the right red door.

Entrance to EAAT

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Tactile gallery map of the E.A.A.T. Space. Left side of the sheet has the key and description of what tactile elements are present. On the right is the actual tactile map of the gallery space, which outlines seating, tables and locations of each artist's installation.

Tactile gallery map of E.A.A.T.

image · EAAT Exhibition
Piano hammers and a blurry image of a piano player are projected in white onto translucent black fabric.

Still of projection from Song without Words.

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Wooden disk with tubes hanging off of it. A metal rod passes through the middle. In the background, blurred, are two monitors with a human figure.

Small Chandelier, Babbel by Meesh Sara Fradkin

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Circular table with joystick and buttons on a controller. There is a headphone amp with lights on and a pair of headphones directly in front of the controller. To the left of the controller is a QR code.

Table with joystick controller, Unseen Sound by Andy Slater

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The image features a dark floating shelf mounted on a white wall, holding an assortment of personal and comfort items. On the left side of the shelf, there are handwork embroidery kits in clear plastic packaging, a pair of embroidery scissors, and a wooden embroidery hoop. Next to them, there's a small orange container labeled "Poem", a white box labeled "Cedar", and a tall canister of American Select Champion cue chalk with the lid open.In the center of the shelf sits a small pink plush toy resembling a fluffy creature with a neutral facial expression. To the right, there is a large collection of Haribo gummy candy packs, stacked in various colors and flavors.

Shelf 4, Pain Pals by Carmen Papalia

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A dining table with four low white stools is positioned in front of a large wall-mounted screen.Floating black shelves with an assortment of self-care items bear a variety of items, including stuffed animals, snacks, pamphlets, heating pads, lotion, compression socks, Vitamin C packets, comic books. Against the gallery’s back wall is an L-shaped upholstered dark gray couch and a cozy robe. An iPad is mounted on a stand with headphones.

Carmen Papalia’s Pain Pals

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Interactive Matterport virtual tour of the E.A.A.T. exhibition at the Beall Center for Art and Technology. The tour allows visitors to navigate a three-dimensional scan of the exhibition space. This embedded experience is not accessible to screen readers and does not provide text descriptions of the artworks or navigation controls. We have, however, created an accessible alternative in the form of a text adventure game.

3D virtual tour of the E.A.A.T. exhibition installation

embed · EAAT Exhibition
Wooden disk with tubes hanging off of it. A metal rod passes through the middle. In the background, blurred, are two monitors with a human figure.

Close-up of Meesh Sara Fradkin’s babbel.

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The image features a dark floating shelf mounted on a white wall, holding a variety of health and wellness products. Items on the shelf include Emergen-C vitamin C packets in tangerine flavor, a carton of Pacific Foods Organic Butternut Squash Soup, a container of Green Superfoods Collagen, a bottle of Magnesium Bisglycinate, and a brown paper bag labeled Nettle Leaves Cut & Sifted. To the right of these items, there is a black orthopedic or posture support brace. Next to it, there are two neatly folded fabric items with colorful patterns, one in blue swirls and the other in a pink and white design.

Shelf 3, Pain Pals by Carmen Papalia

image · EAAT Exhibition
Tactile gallery map of the E.A.A.T. Space. Left side of the sheet has the key and description of what tactile elements are present. On the right is the actual tactile map of the gallery space, which outlines seating, tables and locations of each artist’s installation.

Tactile gallery map

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Three visitors standing and one visitor sitting, looking at multiple multi-tiered suspended chandeliers threaded with plastic and rubber tubing.

Meesh Sara Fradkin’s voice-activated sculpture babbel

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A photo shows slightly worn black letters on white stickers, adhered to an industrial metal door: CENTRAL TIME CLOCK. Behind it, an inventory of Electronic and Mechanical Time Clocks, Biometric HandPunches, and other systems promises to “effectively manage employees and control labor costs.” This is a contemporary archive of how time became a unit of extraction. Beginning with the mechanical watch, time was abstracted from natural rhythms and reoriented to discipline bodies—making labor measurable, predictable, and exchangeable. The punch clock institutionalized this shift: one punched in, one punched out—marking the boundaries of compensated life. In Total Running Time, this infrastructure of control becomes a site of inquiry.

Central Time Clock

image · Josephine Sales
An image shows white text on a dark blue background with a white border. The text reads: “One clock is inscribed ‘Past’ and ‘Imperfect.’ The other clock is inscribed ‘Future looks.’” This text, drawn from a 1986 sketchbook by Black disabled artist Donald Rodney, appears as a visual description entry in the research library of Total Running Time Site. A founding figure of Britain’s BLK Art Group, Rodney sketched during long hospital stays while living with sickle cell anemia and chronic pain. The recurring presence of clocks in his sketchbooks suggests an ongoing engagement with questions of duration, delay, and uncertainty. These sketches invite a reading through the lens of what disability scholars call crip time: a nonlinear, adaptive temporality shaped by debility, dependency, and interruption

Sketchbook 11, Sketch of Two Clocks, 1986 by Donald Rodney

image · Josephine Sales
An image depicting a computer-generated node map visualizes 40 distinct AI response choices related to the Fourth Amendment. Each node represents a different path the AI, named Amelia, might take when responding to questions about search and seizure protections—rights that extend to incarcerated individuals, including in digital and telephonic communication. This map is documentation from research into Amelia’s decision-making framework and its entanglement with carceral technologies. The image is contextualized by the 2021 partnership between Securus Technologies—a major provider of prison phone services—and Amelia, an AI platform marketed as improving customer experience and organizational efficiency. Notably, in 2014, Securus experienced a breach involving over 70 million call records from incarcerated individuals across 37 states. This raises critical questions about how incarcerated people’s time on the phone may be repurposed to train or refine AI systems, linking surveillance, efficiency, and carceral labor under the guise of digital service.

Fourth Amendment AI

document · Josephine Sales
A photo shows a printed document titled “Jim Crow: Disability, Dis-Location, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline” placed beside a handwritten note reading, “haptics into wall??” accompanied by a small sketched rectangle. This image captures a moment in process—where research on the intersections of race, disability, and carcerality begins to shift toward a language of space and touch. It reveals a desire to make these systems not only visible but also felt, raising questions about how histories of exclusion and containment might be translated into touch.

Haptics in wall

image · Josephine Sales
An image shows six photographs arranged on a piece of wood. Each photo features a large rectangular slab of ice placed in a sink or in front of a freezer. In the first two photographs, the ice slabs are bathed in a warm orange light, suggesting an early visual exploration for Day for Night, an artwork that employs two prepared 7,000 Kelvin circadian optic light panels commonly used to mimic natural sunlight.

Ice Light

image · Josephine Sales
A digital document titled “Mouser Electronics Standards on Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Supply Chain.” Sourced from the website of a materials supplier, the document outlines the company’s commitments and policies aimed at preventing slavery and human trafficking within their electronics sourcing and supply chain practices.

Mouser policy

document · Josephine Sales
An image depicts the side of a tan-colored building with the words “Power Generation” written in black across its face. Taken on the campus where the artworks will be exhibited, this image invites reflection on the multiple meanings of “generation”—not only as the production of electrical power but also as a concept linked to biopower, where control is exercised over bodies and populations. The building thus stands as a symbol connecting industrial energy systems to broader structures of social regulation and the management of life itself.

Power Generation

image · Josephine Sales
An image shows a video still with a solid gray background. Overlaid closed caption text, filled in yellow with a black outline, reads: “to refuse this call, press 2 [a slight crackle on the line].” This video is part of Total Running Time Site and represents another iteration of Pulses, exploring the interplay of captions and sound.

Pulses still

image · Josephine Sales
An image shows a smooth grey surface scattered with a pile of grey powder and transparent spherical beads of varying sizes. The beads appear to glow softly. This composition represents an early material exploration for Rescue, a shallow, floor-to-ceiling plaster relief that is part of the installation Total Running Time.

Rescue material study

image · Josephine Sales
An image shows a white document featuring six rough waveform illustrations arranged two across and three down. Each waveform corresponds to a distinct sound explored in Pulses, part of the installation Total Running Time. The sounds include: [thump], [breathing], [ringing] short pulses with left/right delay, [touchtone], [triggering] operator, and [constant] voice 1—offering a visual map of the work’s sonic textures and rhythms.

Sonic study

document · Josephine Sales
An image shows the rear door of an 18-wheeler trailer on the road. Black printed text, partially obscured by vertical frame bars, reads: “Time Shred Services Inc. Mobile Document Destruction, www.timeshred.com, 718 875-1200, 1800 989-8463.” This image evokes the concept of “shredding time,” linking the literal destruction of documents to the metaphorical fragmentation of temporal experience.

Time shred

image · Josephine Sales
An image shows a pale, off-white piece of sheet metal with decal residue faintly spelling the word “world.” Screws line the metal’s left edge, emphasizing its industrial, institutional quality. This subtle, worn surface echoes themes in Rescue, where the plaster relief is designed to blend almost imperceptibly into its architectural surroundings, reflecting on visibility, erasure, and the muted presence of institutional structures.

World

image · Josephine Sales
<em>Total running time</em> in cinematic terms refers to the duration of a moving image work, implying a beginning, middle, and end. This assumption of linear time draws on capitalist and ableist notions of productivity. Capitalism produces ‘disability’ through exclusion as a category with its own orientation to time and modes of production. What is a time that includes the expanses of illness or disability? What is a time that accounts for the duration within carceral institutions and premature loss due to state violence? Within the exhibition format, ‘Total Running Time’ documents the material entanglements between incarceration, disabled life, labor, and the extraction of time. <em>Total Running Time</em> comprises four works <em>Rescue</em>, an anagram of the word ‘secure,’ spans two walls in a 5-foot tall shallow plaster relief accompanied by two geometric forms large enough to sit on. Rescue invites viewers to contemplate their relationships to crisis and care. <em>Pulses</em> is a fifteen-minute telephone call through the prison telecommunication system, the maximum length permitted for calls between an incarcerated person and the free world. The piece vibrates through transducers embedded within the wall. This tactile sonic arrangement is punctuated by periodic reminders that the telephone line is being surveilled and counts down the remaining call duration. <em>Day for Night</em>, an expanded cinema work, is two clocks illuminating the room, made of prepared 5K kelvin circadian optic light panels generically used to mimic sunshine. It runs on two security timers. Viewers are invited to experience sunlight on two different timelines: the first, a constant 24-hour day; the second, once an hour. <em>Total Running Time Site</em> is an auxiliary exhibition site and digital sourcebook available on loan to <a href="https://beallcenter.uci.edu/">Beall Center for Art + Technology</a>, UC Irvine, for an extended period beyond the exhibition run. The site is available through the university domain and invites remote and site-specific engagement. Each work on the digital platform is a companion to artworks on view between September 30, 2023, and January 13, 2024. Across these works, <em>Total Running Time</em> explores temporalities of care, abstracting the halted rhythms of the day and strictly controlled telecommunications for incarcerated people. Scrambled text, interrupted messages, light without the sun: using gestures of disrupted social and sensorial experience to interrogate the material entanglements between incarceration, disabled life, labor, and the extraction of time.

Total Running Time Site

embed · Josephine Sales
A square, windowless, tomato-red building with concrete steps and ramp leading to its double doors. Lettering on the front wall reads “Don and Joan Beall Center for Art and Technology.”

Beall Center: exterior

image · Olivia Ting
A person with arms in motion stands in front of a wooden wall, wearing a black long-sleeved top, looking upwards to the left with pursed lips.

Conductor’s expressive gesture (3)

image · Olivia Ting
Diagram of an architectural plan view showing a room with a scale indication of 0.5 inches equaling 1 foot. The room has a width of 20 feet and a height of 10 feet, with two points of interest labeled P1 and P2 on opposite ends. The space between P1 and P2 is highlighted, suggesting a path or line of sight, with obstructions depicted by shaded angular shapes within the room's outline.

Overhead view of proposed installation

image · Olivia Ting
Interior of a dimly lit exhibition space with glossy concrete floors, dark painted walls, and an exposed ceiling structure. On the left, a set of screens display images, casting light on the floor.

Beall Center: interior

image · Olivia Ting
A person standing against a black background with one hand raised in a waving gesture and a friendly expression on their face. They are wearing a black long-sleeved shirt.

ASL expressive gesture (2)

image · Olivia Ting
A person in a black turtleneck with arms spread in motion against a wooden wall looking to her left with a concerned expression.

Conductor’s expressive gesture (2)

image · Olivia Ting
Abstract blurred image of a person in motion with a trail of letters from dynamic markings used in musical notation suggesting movement, set against a dark background with some regions illuminated in reddish hues.

Cover image: Song without Words

image · Olivia Ting
Blurred image of the dynamic movement of an unrecognizable subject in black clothing against a dark background. Abstract black and white image with blurred illumination that resembles the curvature of a human figure in a dynamic pose, extending movements into gesture calligraphy.

Montaged with other images to form a visual conversation (1)

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The “Lip Reading” flowchart was displayed as part of Ting’s work at the E.A.A.T. exhibit as a large poster mounted on the wall. The flowchart is an interactive visual by nature, prompting users to make choices based on existing information, past actions, and feedback as they move through the flowchart.  To bring the flowchart from the in-person E.A.A.T. experience into an interactive online format, we created an online interactive HTML version of the flowchart, where blind/low-vision users can use screenreaders to navigate each step of the flowchart, simulating the experience that sighted users have with the original.

Lip Reading - Interactive Flowchart

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Three diagrams depicting movement through space with marked dimensions and annotations, including references to '1st MVMNT' and '2nd MVMNT' in the top two, and '3rd MVMNT' in the larger bottom diagram. Annotated text on the bottom diagram explains that the '3RD MVMNT utilizes haptic objects for visitors to navigate "sensation" of sound as they spatially explore a space that has no audial playback.' Each diagram shows a dashed outline of a room with shaded areas indicating movement paths.

Beall Center: Ting space schematic (1)

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A fading photograph from the mid 1920s of a middle-aged woman wearing an elegant pleated skirt and draped sweater. She sits on a day-bed next to a wooden radio with curving legs, about three feet tall. One forearm rests on top of the radio; the other hand touches the front.

Helen Keller’s connection through radio

image · Olivia Ting
Abstract black and white image with blurred illumination that resembles the curvature of a human figure in a dynamic pose raising their hands, extending movements into gesture calligraphy.

Extension of movements into gesture calligraphy (2)

image · Olivia Ting
A schematic representation of a projection mapping setup showing two projectors labeled P1 and P2 projecting onto multiple panels with silhouettes of people observing in between the panels.

Side view of installation

image · Olivia Ting
Close-up photo of a person's hands holding a black circular electronic device with a cable,with silver text against a black background which reads “DAYTONAUDIO” in uppercase with a logo of an arch consisting of 3 lines, and below that black text against a silver background reading “DAEX58FP,” “8 ohm/25W,” and “Made in China.” .

Transducer_1

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Person standing in front of a black background with their fists’ knuckles connected over their face, a white sign labeled in black reading "GARAGE SALE" situated at the bottom left and a blue sign with white text reading “408 243-REAL” in a dimly lit setting.

ASL expressive gesture (3)

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Ting McLain Reflection 03mar23

audio · Olivia Ting
A person in black clothing with eyes closed and arms and hands outstretched in movement in a dark room.

Conductor’s expressive gesture (1)

image · Olivia Ting
Near the center of a black background, two glowing white spots approach each other. Faint curving trails mark the path of their motion to arrive at this place.

Montaged with other images to form a visual conversation (2)

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A dimly lit theater stage with translucent blue-tinted curtains hanging from above, some with yellow serif letters projected onto them. Performers are scattered on the stage, some standing and some seated on the floor, with one individual seated on a chair in the foreground to the right.

“The Tip of My Tongue” set design (1)

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Red floor plan drawing of a building layout with labeled dimensions, including a marked "Main Entrance", on a white background. The plan shows various walls and rooms outlined with measurements given in feet and inches.

Beall Center: floor plan

image · Olivia Ting
A line of five performers either kneeling or in the process of getting up to kneel on a dimly lift, amid vertical white banners displaying projected scattered text and closed captions reading “new student from Japan” in English and Japanese.

“The Tip of my Tongue” set design (2)

image · Olivia Ting
Diagram showing overlapping areas labeled "tinnitus area" and "nerve activity area" with two points marked as P1 and P2. The diagram includes measurements, with dashed lines indicating different distances: 20 feet at the top, 15 feet on the right, and a scale of 0.5 inches equaling 1 foot at the bottom left. The areas are represented with dotted circles within a large shaded polygon.

“sonic hack” Spatially designated layers of sound

image · Olivia Ting
The artist experimented with different embodied experiences of video projected onto hanging panels. Here, the panels are hung in the artist’s garage, a long and linear space. This was the type of configuration she eventually chose for the exhibit at the Beall Center, because a tube-like space is evocative of the cochlea itself.

Projection Test: Garage

video · Olivia Ting
A detailed plan of the Beall Art Center Exhibition Space featuring dimensions, layout of walls, and notes regarding potential placement of objects and partitions such as scrims, tables, and the separation of space. Main entrance and entry point are labeled, with various measurements annotated in feet and inches. The plan is shown in gray on a white background with red outlines and text.

Beall Center: Ting space schematic (2)

image · Olivia Ting
Abstract black and white image with blurry shapes, similar to smoke or ink dispersing in liquid, that resembles the curvature of a human figure in a dynamic pose, extending movements into gesture calligraphy.

Extension of movements into gesture calligraphy (1)

image · Olivia Ting
A photo of a Electronic Grove haptic motor module with a blue circuit board and a small round vibration motor soldered onto it, accompanied by a multicolored ribbon cable with a red, black, yellow, and white wire ending in a white plastic connector. The text below the photo reads, “Grove - Haptic motor is a Grove module integrated with DRV2605L which will give your project more feelings. This motor is specially designed for various effects, such as to ramp the vibration level up and down, for wearable and IoT devices. Right we have developed an easy-to-use library which can simulate 123 kinds of vibrating models in total and this will make your prototyping very quickly. Also, you can develop more advanced functions with the driver DRV2605L which improves actuator performance in terms of acceleration consistency, starting time, and brake time and is accessible through a shared I2C compatible bus or PWM input signal.

Grove Haptic Motor

image · Olivia Ting
A row of hammers inside a piano: some are striking as the piano is played.

Piano as a body (1)

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Abstract black and white image with blurred illumination that resembles the curvature of a human figure in a dynamic pose with their vague shape of their hands and head visible, extending movements into gesture calligraphy.

Extension of movements into gesture calligraphy (3)

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Super-imposed close-ups of the keyboard and interior of a piano. Rows of keys and strings recede to the back of the photo, and a shifting light source illuminates different areas.

Piano as a body (2)

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Debriefing Interview captured at the E.A.A.T exhibit opening

Ting Debrief Interview

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A person in black attire is standing against a wooden wall with an expressive pose, arms raised and one leg slightly lifted, suggesting a dance or performance in motion.

Conductor’s expressive gesture (4)

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My Story Piano Scribe (audio)

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My Story (audio)

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<em><strong>Sorting it Out</strong></em><strong>, 2023 </strong> <em><strong>Lip Reading</strong></em><strong>, 2023 </strong> As schemas of the complex, rapid-fire set of decisions the artist makes to decipher oral communication, these tongue-in-cheek flowcharts render listening as a visual process that activates forking paths of meaning. <em>Sorting it Out</em>: This is the first in a series of choose-your-own adventure flowcharts that satirically represents audiovisual strategies of listening from the perspective of a deaf person. It tracks the feedback loops of sense and meaning-making; how, at times, outrageous, self-deprecating, or embarrassing strategies are required to understand speakers. Please note this flowchart is sprawling; there are multiple permutations of possible scenarios. <em>Lip Reading: </em>This is the second in a series of choose-your-own adventure flowcharts that pokes fun at the complex schema and strategies required to decipher spoken language through lip reading. It tracks the circuitous, obstructed, lateral, and sometimes comical pathways to understanding. Please note there are multiple permutations of possible scenarios: no one path is the same.

Voice comprehension flow charts (horizontal version)

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Blurred image of a person against a black background, making it difficult to discern details.

Montaged with other images to form a visual conversation (4)

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The artist experimented with different embodied experiences of video projected onto hanging panels. Here, the panels are hung in Berkeley’s Center for New Music Audio Technology. This space is comparatively wide and spacious.

Projection Test: Berkeley CNMAT

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A collage of educational charts including musical dynamics, a phonemic chart with examples, and music rest symbols with corresponding fractional values.

Phonemes and music dynamic symbols

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A person in a black outfit dancing with an expressive arm movement, raising their left hand, against a plain wooden background.

Conductor’s expressive gesture (5)

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A phonemic chart with two main sections labeled "vowels" and "consonants." The vowels are further classified into monophthongs and diphthongs. Each phoneme is represented by its International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbol, a keyword to aid pronunciation, and color-coded boxes indicating voiced (yellow) and unvoiced (gray) sounds. The consonants section includes examples such as 'p' for 'pea,' 'f' for 'fly,' and 'm' for 'man.' The chart also notes it's based on Received Pronunciation and is an adaptation of the popular Adrian Underhill layout.

English Phonemic Chart

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Blurred image of a person with raised hands against a black background, creating a ghostly effect.

Montaged with other images to form a visual conversation (3)

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<em><strong>Sorting it Out</strong></em><strong>, 2023 </strong> <em><strong>Lip Reading</strong></em><strong>, 2023 </strong> As schemas of the complex, rapid-fire set of decisions the artist makes to decipher oral communication, these tongue-in-cheek flowcharts render listening as a visual process that activates forking paths of meaning. <em>Sorting it Out</em>: This is the first in a series of choose-your-own adventure flowcharts that satirically represents audiovisual strategies of listening from the perspective of a deaf person. It tracks the feedback loops of sense and meaning-making; how, at times, outrageous, self-deprecating, or embarrassing strategies are required to understand speakers. Please note this flowchart is sprawling; there are multiple permutations of possible scenarios. <em>Lip Reading: </em>This is the second in a series of choose-your-own adventure flowcharts that pokes fun at the complex schema and strategies required to decipher spoken language through lip reading. It tracks the circuitous, obstructed, lateral, and sometimes comical pathways to understanding. Please note there are multiple permutations of possible scenarios: no one path is the same.

Voice comprehension flow charts (Vertical version)

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A person in black clothing appears to be using sign language against a dark background.

ASL expressive gesture (1)

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Visual description forthcoming.

Song without Words 2nd Movement (captioned)

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Visual description forthcoming.

Song without Words Captioned

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