Misfits Meet Art and Technology: Cripping Transmethodologies

• Published in: Cultural studies, critical methodologies Vol. 24; no. 4; pp. 219 - 231
• Main Authors: Rice, Carla, Chandler, Eliza, Shanouda, Fady, Temple Jones, Chelsea, Mündel, Ingrid
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.08.2024; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Artists; Original; Technology; creative users; misfit creativity; disability arts; access aesthetics; technology; difference-centered design; dis-use
• ISSN: 1532-7086; 1552-356X
• DOI: 10.1177/15327086241234705

This article thinks with disability theory and artistic praxis to explore how disabled artists repurpose and invent technologies in artistic processes designed to enact care and access, extend embodiment, satiate the senses, and create crip culture. Drawing on four examples, we claim that disabled artists are creative technologists whose non-normative culture-making practices approach accessibility as a transmethodological process that requires and generates new forms of interconnected technology and artfulness. Disabled artists, as “creative users,” change the uses and outcomes of technology, dis-using technologies in ways that lead to a more dynamic understanding of access and with it, of crip cultures as processual, artful, and political.