A chronicle of ableism and disability activism in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic. How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic documents the pivotal experiences of disabled people living in an early epicenter of COVID-19: New York City. Among those hardest hit by the pandemic, disability communities across the five boroughs have been disproportionately impacted by city and national policies, work and housing conditions, stigma, racism, and violence—as much as by the virus itself. Disabled and chronically-ill activists have protested plans for medical rationing and refuted the eugenic logic of mainstream politicians and journalists who “reassure” audiences that only

In 1974, Open Circuits: An International Conference on the Future of Television gathered dozens of prominent artists, curators, academics, writers and television producers to discuss conflicting perspectives on the medium of artists’ video and its cultural impacts. Held at MoMA and sponsored by the Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), the event was considered a watershed moment in media theory and electronic arts. 50 years later, Open Circuits Revisited, a collaborative multi-day event, shared the same spirit and ethos of its predecessor. Sponsored by EAI, a nonprofit resource that fosters the creation, exhibition, distribution and preservation of media art, it was produced in conjunction with

Meesh Sara Fradkin (CDS Visiting Research Scholar) and Andy Slater are the recipients of a 2024 MAP Fund grant for a sound installation and performance, fiscally sponsored by Experimental Sound Studio. MAP Fund is one of the longest running, private funding sources for new performance works. Experimental Sound Studio is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization dedicated to artistic evolution and the creative exploration of sound. “Reviewing 43819.782 3.74–9” by Fradkin and Slater will be an interactive, immersive, and multisensory sound installation and performance, where the actions or inactions of audience members in the waiting room inform parameters of the score in the performance

Disability studies has gained prominence in recent years, transforming fields ranging from design to literary studies with insurgent approaches to access and representation. The newest volume of Osiris, “Disability and the History of Science,” extends this movement to ask how disability has been a central, if unacknowledged, force in the scientific disciplines and the history of science. The volume examines the many roles that disability and disabled people have played throughout the history of science, calling attention to the shaping of scientific knowledge production by disability. Editors Jaipreet Virdi, Mara Mills, and Sarah F. Rose, in their introduction to the volume,

The NYU Center for Disability Studies announces a new book series “Disability in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine” to be published through Johns Hopkins University Press. CDS Director Mara Mills joins Jaipreet Virdi and Wayne Tan as Series Editors. A banner featuring a graphic illustration of a person’s facial profile. They are wearing dark glasses, a face mask, and their hair is pulled back in a low bun. There is a neural network helmet on their head. There is a shadow of a wheelchair against a navy background. On the top right corner is the Johns Hopkins University Press logo, below which is the text

Book cover for Disability Worlds, featuring a photo of Samantha Myers, a young white woman with short light brown hair, sitting in her wheelchair on a New York City street in front of a large graffiti of brightly-colored large wings painted on dark brown wood. Her arms are raised to match the shape of the wings, as if she is about to fly. She wears a dark red face mask over her mouth and nose. The lower third of the cover has a bright pink background with the title Disability Worlds in white serif type. Underneath the title, in the same white serif type but a smaller size