WHO ART YOU / IN CONVERSATION WITH CELINE
Daniel Ryan Johnston
Daniel Ryan Johnston traces a path from music, theater and costumes to textiles and wearable technology that communicates bodily experience without words. A tour of the NYU Ability Project asks how adapting tools can help more people continue making.
ONE QUESTION TO WATCH WITH
How can creative tools respond to different bodies?
Daniel Ryan Johnston, portrait from NYU ITP. · Cover image source ↗
FROM CONVERSATION TO WORK
Look a little closer
The conversation moves from wearable works to tools for making. In the artist’s and Ability Project’s resources, look at how tools support continued making, expression and collaboration.
Artist background & more work ↗Textiles, free-motion embroidery, wearables, inflatable structures, LEDs and participatory accessible design. Bodily experience and the tools that enable making are both subjects of the work.
Explore the official project resources ↗Keep a thought for yourselfOnly in this browser, never public
YOUR TURN
What physical abilities does a tool you know assume its user has?
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Take the question somewhere new
Bring different artists’ work and conversations together, and see how your own answer changes.
