27 Jun Announcing the Access and Disability Innovation Working Group
June 27, 2023 (Cambridge, Mass.) — We’re excited to announce the formal launch of the Access and Disability Innovation Working Group. This group brings together emergent media storytellers, creative technologists, curators, funders, and scholars to share and learn through researching, mapping, and showcasing theories, practices, and projects that center disability innovation within the framework of disability justice. The group has been meeting for the last two years to field-build in areas of interactive, immersive non-fiction, documentary and journalism that centers disability as a driver for tech, social, aesthetic, political and epistemological development.
Read more about the new working group here. Active members of the group include Halsey Burgund, Rashin Fahandej, Jason Ryle, Lori Landay, Max Musau, Andrea Walls and the co-conveners are Joanna Wright and Kat Cizek.
Check out the group’s first publication, the Accessibility Resource List for Interactive and Immersive Media, here. This living resource maps over 40 projects, organizations and resources that support accessibility and disability-centered work.
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