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I'm Vanessa Chang I am the Director of Programs 
at Leonardo, which is the producing organization  

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and I'm a co-curator of the exhibition 
my name is Lindsay D Felt and I am the  

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Disability and Access Lead at Leonardo and I'm 
also a co-curator of the E.A.A.T. exhibition

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um we wanted in the term E.A.A.T. to signal 
something of a historical conjuncture that  

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has shifted over that time in the 1960s was 
um a moment of great transformation in art  

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and technology E.A.T. was part of that but so 
too was Leonardo the institutional home of this  

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project but E.A.A.T. is coming at a moment that 
emerges out of probably a decade or so of amazing  

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work in creative access and aesthetic access by 
disability communities and activists and artists

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E.A.AT. Experiments in Art, Access & Technology 
is the culminating exhibition of Leonardo  

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CripTech incubator which is a fellowship 
for disability innovation in media art  

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and technology um the exhibition showcases 
the work of five disabled artists who are  

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pushing the envelope of creative expression 
in media art and technology so we have five  

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incredible artists Josephine Sales, Olivia 
Ting, Andy Slater Carmen Papalia, Meesh Fradkin,  

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so the cohort is really representative of a 
cross-disability experience and also in the  

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own artistic practices and they have a lot 
of really interesting um shared themes and  

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interests so all of them came together to work 
on creative access to explore how access can  

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be part of their practice and how they can 
use technologies to develop these creative  

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accesses but at the same time also showcase 
the way that technology has been inaccessible  

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and they're looking to find transgressive 
ways to to build new avenues in that way

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each of the works takes on an exploration of 
access specifically within a creative lens  

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trying to ask questions about how access is 
experienced how access can be part of their  

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artwork how visitors can come and encounter these 
work through different sensory registers but also  

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how they they themselves as artists are accessing 
these various technologies that are used to make  

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the works so for example as you walk into 
the gallery the first work you'll encounter  

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is Total Running Time by Josephine Sales this 
multi-perceptual installation which includes a  

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soundtrack a haptic kind of translation of that 
soundtrack in a wall a tactile wall relief that  

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you can touch but not see all activate different 
kinds of sensory experience to explore time and  

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the different ways that um time is experienced by 
disabled people as well as incarcerated people you  

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can continue into the main gallery space where 
you'll encounter Meesh Fradkin's babbel which  

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is a series of five hanging chandeliers that 
four of which encircle the main chandelier that  

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main chandelier is a voice activated sculpture 
that lights up and makes sound in response to  

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particular words that are spoken in the gallery 
space that chandelier is powered by a sonified  

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dictionary that is tagged to those particular 
words that the other has predetermined there  

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are also some screens behind the chandeliers 
that show sonic descriptions of those sounds  

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that are emitted and the artist has also produced 
a 3D tactile print for folks to engage with the  

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sculpture and the materials directly um from 
there you'll be able to experience Olivia Ting  

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Song Without Words, Song Without Words is a 
multi-channel installation it involves three  

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movements and it's inspired by the artist's 
experience with classical music she refers  

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to movements that are projected onto hanging black 
fabric and these movements um explore the artist's  

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experience of someone who's hard of hearing 
but also a classicly trained pianist and so  

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she's really interested in gesture and then how 
the gestures of sign language of conducting and  

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piano playing all inform each other and through 
this experience you are invited to rethink what  

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it means to hear the culminating piece of sound 
without words is also two vintage radios that  

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have haptic transducers built in as part of the 
artist's attempt to stage an intervention into  

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expanding our notion of listening as also 
feeling from there you'll go to Pain Pals  

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by Carmen Papalia there's a series of videos that 
play that capture the Pain Pals series of artists  

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and collaborators discussing their experiences 
with pain there also it's designed to be a kind  

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of living room or comic book shop with various 
items such as Vitamin C packets comic book Works  

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other sundry items that are used for self-care 
practices and finally um Andy Slater's Unseen  

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Sound is a nonvisual wayfinding experience you 
can experience the work by sitting down at a  

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table with a joystick and a headphone amp on 
it put the headphones on and use the joystick  

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to navigate through the space but you don't 
see anything you have to do it entirely by  

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hearing as you encounter sounds you experience 
the world the only visual element are sonic  

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descriptions so it's really um an invitation from 
the artist to experience um a non-visual world and  

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to wayfind in a way that um is inspired by an 
expressive of his experience as a blind artist

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I want to highlight that this really is a 
collaborative show this has been a deeply deeply  

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collaborative effort we have so many partners 
that have been instrumental in bringing the  

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show to life so from the residency partners to our 
access workers who have been really instrumental  

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in producing some of these text that people 
are going to be interacting with like audio  

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descriptions or even Sonic descriptions the access 
workers are actually kind of the silent partners  

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here in some was ys we have the support of the 
Leonardo platform um we brought in academics and  

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activists like Sins Invalid and Aimi Hamraie to 
help us think through how we might meaningfully  

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integrate access into the program I'm really 
proud of the network of folks that we've assembled

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as the title suggests the this show has been 
centered around access you know the the works  

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themselves are um built with access in mind 
and not just access but creative access so  

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there's different ways to um have aesthetic 
experience that are accessible sculptures  

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that hang we need to think about if someone 
is is blind or has low vision how do we Mark  

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that for them so they don't walk into it 
so there's also tactile maps and braile  

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translation of the wall labels each of the 
wall labels has um a QR code that goes to a  

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corresponding access page on the exhibition 
website that includes visual descriptions  

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that also have audio descriptions and some 
Sonic descriptions as well to create other  

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ways to experience the work that are not just 
straightforward descriptions for the most part  

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but but we've attempted to make um you know 
reflective in an aesthetic sense of the work