This project is an in-progress, collaborative podcast series on disability arts and technoculture that features interviews with disabled artists, poets, designers, and technologists. Episodes forthcoming late summer 2026!
Disability culture is highly networked. Digital communities can provide reprieve from the inaccessible structures that typify built environments, and digital platforms can provide communication affordances (such as asynchronicity or textual translation) for those who find f2f encounters largely inaccessible. And yet, digital tech is not a panacea for inaccessibility; despite the proliferation of disability activism and arts-creation online, web-based content is notoriously inaccessible, in every sense of the word.
Against this backdrop of techno-ableism and mass surveillance, disabled people have cultivated robust access-creation and community-building practices. To this end, we position our project as an extension and reinvigoration of this care labour, as well as a series of offerings that engage with technocultures of disability. Leading with Neil Marcus’s invocation of disability as an art, we imagine this podcast as an interdisciplinary endeavour that brings together disability culture workers to think-together.
This project receives support from University of Michigan – ARIA (Arts Research: Incubation & Acceleration), the DISCO Network, and the Canada Research Research Chairs Program. An earlier version of this project, led by Tess Carichner, received support from University of Michigan’s Barger Leadership Institute.