I’m a neurodivergent computational artist, looking to divest the sensorial wonders of immersive media from the directives of profit and ableism.
I argue that Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Apple present this medium as a pay-to-play, whether you’re trading your money, privacy, or more recently the autonomy of your own body. And with their approach comes a one-size-fits-most that maintains the heteronormative patriarchal ableist hegemony. I collect no data, and the controls provided are open-source and designed for online gallery settings.
Through the Develop Your Creative Practice grant, I am building a toolkit for artists, web developers, and musicians to build immersive experiences accessible to screen readers in the browser. This approach aims to utilize open web standards to enable myself and others to create website installations that allow for hybridity with in-person immersive installations like projections and speaker arrays.
Through this development opportunity I am building community and interest around immersive web audio. If you or your organisation would like to get involved, please reach out with your community building ideas. If you or your organisation would like to hire me or a member of this artist/developer community in the future, please reach out via contact details below: