A September of Multisensory Art 1: Finnegan Shannon at Pioneer Works, Frame by Frame!

Below are a series of frames from a video I took at the opening of “There’s no me without you,” Finnegan Shannon’s show at Pioneer Works on September 11, 2026. Ariana Martinez’s delightfully tactile artworks are traveling along Finnegan’s conveyer belt for us to interact with. We were among the first to arrive. I excitedly started picking objects up and… Read more

Blindness as Creative Force – Fall 2026 News & Events

Dear readers, After relying on a barely accessible newsletter platform for almost a decade, I’ve decided to turn my jam-packed newsletters with carefully curated image descriptions into seasonal round-up posts at DrMLGodin.com and AromaticaPoetica.com, and just send out a simple, text-based email blast to alert readers. So here’s the Fall 2026 Blindness as Creative Force Newsletter! Please reach out and… Read more

Blind Visionscapes: Making an AI Model with Handmade Datasets at SFPC

I went into Handmade Datasets wanting to build an image-description generator and wound up trying to train a machine to hallucinate blind visionscapes. Handmade Datasets My increasing reliance on AI for my ongoing photography project made me curious to know more. I guest-lectured at the School for Poetic Computation years ago, and I’d been thinking that if I were to… Read more

Black Hole Sonification by Blind Physicist Kyle Keane at reSOUND New York

I was invited  by accessibility designer  Lauren Race–who took the fabulous above photo of myself and Gio Brignoni!–to an after-hours event at reSOUND New York. Dr. Kyle Keane., a blind physicist and assistive tech lecturer at the University of Bristol translated the energy surrounding a black hole into sound frequencies that fill the “ECHO” exhibit. It was super cool to… Read more

We Are Vagina, an Apache Myth of the Future

Created for Sparrow Film Project, and featured in their 2015 Gala at the Museum of the Moving Image, We Are Vagina is the weird child of a film challenge, involving randomly selected myths as prompts–ours being, of course, the Apache Vagina Girls!–and, by way of an indifferent spin of a giant wheel, eras–ours being the year 3000…     We… Read more

Accessible Coding chronicle

Last week’s ScreenReader Coding Workshop took place in a portion of a giant complex in Brooklyn called MetroTech, which is home to NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. Within one of the several large building surrounding the square, on a floor buzzing with giant video game consoles and laptops with huge monitors and kids chatting about code and playing/creating video games,… Read more