Digital can be both a joy and a  burden in our lives, but if used inclusively it can tap into exciting realms of accessibility, innovation, shaping new landscapes of connection and representation.

I have delighted in my own journey with digital, through the directing and production of major community digital festivals such as SprungDigi in Horsham in 2012-2016 to producing and consulting dance and theatre practitioners working with Digital, working for 5 years with Chisato Minamimura and in particular producing the beautiful Scored in Silence.

Digital doesn’t have to be fancy it can be excellence and access online as in working alongside VitalCapacities an online residency designed for digital artists and videomakers, developed in the time of Covid-19 and sustained in the aftermath.

In 2025 as part of Sync Leadership, I am shaping a new online platform for learning disabled visual artists in  to make art, learn about leadership and collaborate together called Syncing Space, hosting the first online residency supported by British Council’s Connections through Culture grant from Jan-April 2025.

 

Recent Digital Inclusivity Contracts

  • All four artists’ work, beginning bottom right clockwise: Nadine Mckenzie, A Will, My Wheels and a Way, 2021; …kruse, Directionsgreat to Storyplace, 2021; Siphenathi Mayekiso, Echoes of Identity, 2021; artwork still, Ecologies of Belonging (a Meditation in Progress) by Rebekah Ubuntu, courtesy of the Artist. Find Rebekah online @rebekahubuntu. Vital Capacities - An accessible, purpose-built digital residency space that supports artists’ practice while engaging a diversity of audiences with their work.As digital inclusion specialist for the project, I support artists induction and the development of the inclusive culture feel of the residencies as well as supporting the development of the access streams for the artists. This involves my own audio description but also commissioning some of the best artists working in the field to support the accessibility of the artist’s r&d and final exhibited pieces.
  • a montage of different images From Sprung Digi website, showing different aspects of hte project including Digi Buddies, SprungDigi Dares U. There is a picture of a Chinese man with a moustache and glasses, Andy Kee part of steering committee in a bright orange tshirt in a still from teh film. Sprung Digi - Sprung Digi was a user led and inspired community project led by a committee of learning disabled creatives that put their communities in touch with digital technology like never before. Sprung Digi developed access, understanding and engagement for people most readily denied access to quality digital experiences in a way that had not been achieved before. The project, which ran from 2012-2016 showcased startling beautiful digital creativity in simple vibrant ways working with over 200 people across West Sussex.
  • Chisato in an illuminated blue dress with a projection of green hands across her performance shows the explosion of the A-Bomb in Hiroshima from a Deaf perspective. Scored in Silence, Edinburgh, 2019 Chisato Minamimura - Minamimura's s work explores the Deaf perspective through the employment of radical progressive digital artistry working in sound and light and the latest vibration technologies. Between 2014-2019, I worked alongside vibrafusionlab.com, Canada and Hologauze®, Bristol, UK and digital artists Jon Armstrong, Danny Bright, Harvey Cash and Dave Packer to develop the personal stories of Deaf Hibakusha; surviviors of the 1945 A-Bomb in her unforgettable solo performance, Scored in Silence.  The work has since toured live and digitally in Canada, Tunisia, China, Chile and Australia and more.

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