M Eilo
Researcherat MicrosoftM Eilo uses castoffs, computers and community to explore disability as a hotbed of innovation. As an autistic person who later acquired a brain injury due to corporate greed and negligence they have built and rebuilt their practice around deepening disabled ways of knowing. They build personal prosthetics and community engaged sculpture, create experimental archives and animated short films, make designed-for-one wearables and write disabled speculative fiction.
M is best known for their computational prosthetics including Prosthetic Memory, a homemade AI built to offset the artists long term memory loss, Masking Machine, a wearable computer which automatically masks the artists face and simulates eye contact in social interactions, and Invisible Sculpture, an AR and performance piece used to show a monumental scale sculpture to museum visitors...uninvited.
They were recently named a Disability Futures Fellow by the Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and United States Artists and have been featured at DHMD Museum, BOZAR, Ars Electronica, SomArts, TED, the Exploratorium, SFMoMA (uninvited), the YBCA (uninvited), the Wattis Institute, XOXO, the Armory Show, the Seattle International Film Festival, the Smithsonian Institution
and Kennedy Center.