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Hi! Welcome. My name is M Eilo. 
I'm the lead artist for the 2025 CripTech

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AI Lab and I made this audio walkthrough 
of the show Slow AI which is a

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culmination of this year's lab.

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This audio is for anyone who would like a 
personal audio only experience.

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I will give visual descriptions, 
read page text,

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and sneak in a personal aside here and 
there.

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You know, the audio needs its own special 
thing, right?

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I'm so excited.

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OK, 
so the page opens to a glowing sun and

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drifting clouds, and as we scroll down, 
the clouds part,

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the light shifts to sunset oranges, 
and the sun sinks below the black hills.

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The title appear: a Leonardo CripTech 
virtual exhibition.

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Here there's a quote.

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Disability is a portal, 
a way of focusing our gaze and sharpening

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our lens on the intricacies of our 
humanity.

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Alice Wong, 1974 to 2025.

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This is one of those personal asides,

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special, just to the audio tour, that I 
promised earlier.

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Alice Wong, 
who passed just days before the show's

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opening, 
taught me a lot about how to value my

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disabled body's understanding of the 
world and how to share that knowledge

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with others.

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Her memory is a profound and lasting 
blessing.

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OK, back to the script.

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The sun has set.

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We are wandering along a quiet creek.

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There are boulders where we can stop to 
rest.

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We move slowly.

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We think and speak slowly.

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There is no rush.

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We built this path with our many hands 
and mouths and eyes and ears.

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Our Crip bodyminds are living 
instruments we think with rather than

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about.

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We use these instruments to crip our 
spacetime, finding new routes,

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new rhythms, new relations, 
our methodology.

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We forgot, we talked in circles, we raged, 
we lost our way, we repeated ourselves,

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we misunderstood, 
we stopped moving forward.

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We tried things and threw them away.

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These detours drew new maps in crip time, 
messy, non-linear cartographies grounded in

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disability justice. 
The landscape we chose,

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AI, is a tricky one, snarled by hype and hate, 
desiccated by water theft, and full of

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rabid data barons with their extraction 
machines.

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So we cripped AI.

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We co-created a community of disabled 
makers, hackers, artists, musicians,

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writers and teachers from 7 different 
countries who critiqued,

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altered and reinvented the algorithm.

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In this barren landscape, 
we built resting spots where we can take

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a break from the rush.

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We thought through AI slowly.

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We slowed by using techniques like 
cellular automata dating back to the

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1950's, 
the era that named AI, alongside deep

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learning and generative AI methods from 
the 2010s and 20s.

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We slowed by using open source models 
that ran locally on our own machines

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instead of in far off data centers.

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We slowed by authoring algorithms from 
our own writings, paintings,

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and even medical data.

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Our work was a communal act of 
deceleration.

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We weeded out expectations of speed, 
slowing ourselves and our algorithms down

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to the irregular, 
limping pace where conversation,

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collaboration, and crip culture thrive.

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Each project marked by a stone carries 
this core into its own medium, culture,

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and timezone.

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Together, 
the stones below form a path for you to

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follow in your own time.

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Pause, listen, read.

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Soak your feet in the stream.

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Let your stillness shift all our 
foundations.

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Now, 
before I introduce you to each of the

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projects, 
I'm going to give a little visual

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description. As you approach each project,

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there is this boulder,

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they're sort of simplified and lumpy and 
gray,

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but they are our visual language for 
stopping,

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for reflecting on geologic time and 
really letting time slow to sit on the

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stone and be with a stone.

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And each of these projects is one of 
these stones where we can really

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sit and just be.

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So together, we created: a simulation where 
crip bots map the texture of worlds with

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their feet.

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The next project is a visualization that 
shifts signals from flinching ears to

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hungry eyes.

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Next is an ad for a speculative imaging 
machine that can see any ailment.

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Then there's an endoscope that surveils 
the theatre of battle,

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be it tumor or warzone.

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Next is a chorus of voices all rising to 
sing, a cacophony of life after accident.

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Next is a a dance of brush to pixel to 
text and back,

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a whole choreography of squares and data 
and ideas.

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And our very last project is a 
conversation with a poem about the

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visible and invisible body.

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So I hope these these projects can really 
call you into a moment of stop and

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consideration and rest.

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And just a few footnotes before I give 
you back to the flow of time.

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The page contains links to books and 
articles I used in my research.

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First is a book called Activist Affordances.

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I highly recommend reading it if you want 
to explore disability as a process of

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research and creation.

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Next was an interview in Lateral on 
disability studies that showed early

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inklings of thought around disability as 
a methodology.

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And lastly we have a link to the OG CripTech article

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the terms and ideas for crip 
technoscience as a field.

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Thank you for being here.