Choreographic Imaginings: Crip Haptic Flower Techno Jam by Vanessa Hernández Cruz & Selwa Sweidan
Description: Vanessa Hernández Cruz & Selwa Sweidan have been imagining ways to use Haptics technology to create a way to expand choreographic imaginings & movement, centering the needs of Disabled dancers with the goal of developing deeper connection as a community. In collaboration with Disabled artists: Thai Lu, Lauren Brooks, 이방 Haejin, & Heidi Andrea Rhodes and our software & tech developers: Premankur Banerjee & Catherine Yunis, we have designed an exciting wearable prototype blanket and software that can be controlled in real-time, called “Crip Haptic Flower Techno Jam”. With this technology we can begin utilizing this to generate movement for choreography and/or have movement improvisation jams with Disabled artists, with hopes in the future to use across long distances.
During our time together we will have a 45min participatory performance where we invite everyone to join our journey as we guide you through our process through movement prompts, culminating in trying out our prototype.
blackout: a haptic tale by antonella mazzoni
“Blackout”, a Haptic Tale by Antonella Mazzoni
Blackout is the very first prototype of Haptic Tales, a new multi-sensory story experience for ALL abilities that Antonella conceived during her Touch Aesthetics fellowship, while experimenting on the creative use of haptics as an inclusive narrative technique.
In Blackout, audiences find themselves immersed in an intimate multi-sensory adventure that invites them to reimagine storytelling through the sensations felt on their bodies.
The journey is audio narrated+captioned in a low-lit VR storyworld, and infused with custom Haptic Effects (HFX) that act as “kinesthetic onomatopoeia for our bodies”.
To dig in deeper into Antonella's brainstorming & research process visit her Touch Aesthetics Project Miro Board
Planting Disabled Futures - a virtual reality ritual by Petra Kuppers
This crip intimacy installation invites you into a world of healing plants cultivated by disabled peoples’ embodied ways of knowing. Come, try out a headset, hold a plushy critter, and become entangled with the ways we as disabled people honor and engage with plant elders.
Background info: https://www.petrakuppers.com/planting-disabled-futures
Field Guide to Decoding Gobbledygook by Olivia Ting
Description: a haptic and first-person perspective augmented reality game experience of decoding mangled words from a hard of hearing perspective.