Extended Residency

This project was bigger than I knew.


I've been compiling information, and struggling with finding the time to upload it. It seems like any time I sit down to write in this blog, I remember that I have some other homework to do, some other project to work on.

My residency has been extended until April 15th. I think it's fitting given the fact I'm researching accessibility in the arts. It's something I will always have trouble accepting but, I do need more time than most, to get to the same point. I need assistance, I need understanding, I need support. I'm lucky, that the reading room has been really accommodating and has let me take a bit more time.

So while I was researching disabled people in the arts, art centered around disability, accessible ways to record research and put the information out there, I realized that... I have to put my own info out there in an accessible way as well. So I started researching people that have put out zines and art in different ways.

Content Warning: Child Sexual Abuse: This is a zine that was turned into a video for people that have issues reading.


Resonance Audio Distro has an awesome collection of audio zines

This zine was made by visually impaired teens.

Sarah Tea Rex has put all of their zines in pdf format on this site, and the get a grip zine is also available in braille.

An article about Roy Nachums braille paintings for the blind.

A free braille converter for 3d printing.

3D printed braille and picture books for blind children.

A free braille slate file to 3D print.

Ivona is a text to speech site that lets you pick voices in any language, including French Canadian.


More info on the way!

Heather

website updates

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Hi.


I've been updating heathrr.ca all day because I've been slacking.  I'm guessing, that everyone else is as swamped by finals, but if you find the time go check out some of the updates.

I did a review of DEFINITELYREALALLTIMETRUETALES@LOYOLACAMPUS.COM which was a performance that happened in Feb at Loyola campus, that I helped out on... so it's a biased review, but a review anyways.

Slowly but surely, I'm compiling a zine of all the research I've done in regards to accessibility, and I'm going to be putting it out in PDF, Audiozine and paper format.

I'll update again tomorrow.

- Heathrr

Update

The website is aliiiive.

heathrr.ca

Go there to check up on what I'm doing in a more visual and less written sense. Also, the icons are all draggable so, drag em around.

I've also been keeping a book list;

-Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists
-Figurations of Violence and Belonging: Queerness, Migranthood and Nationalism in Cyberspace and Beyond
-Conversation pieces: Community and Communications in Modern Art
-Being on line, net subjectivity
-The uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture


I'm posting art by inspiring artists that (i think) deserve representation. 










And I just added a few things to my workspace installation in the FARR.











Heather