DARCI: Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries

In this episode Mariana interviewed Elle Chante, a UK based musician exploring the reality of complex mental health and disability into her work.In this episode Mariana interviewed Elle Chante, a UK based musician exploring the reality of complex mental health and disability into her work.

In this episode Mariana interviewed Samantha Moore, an animator and researcher with an interest in documentary, science and art, practice as research. Her practice is often in animated documentary.

In this episode Mariana interviewed Dr. Kulnaree Sueroj, who has recently graduated with a PhD from the School of Arts and Creative Technologies at the University of York. Her thesis is titled Strategies for Audio Describing Gestures and Facial Expressions for Visually Impaired Thai Television Audiences. Kulnaree started working as an audio describer and AD researcher after joining a pioneering team in 2012 to carry out Thailand's first audio description pilot project for television programmes. Now she works as Associate Dean for Research and Creative Works at the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication, Thammasat University, Thailand. In addition, she collaborates with several AD stakeholders in Thailand and teaches disability and the media modules to graduate and undergraduate students in her faculty.

In this episode, Mariana interviewed Amelia Cavallo, a blind, USA-born theatre practitioner, academic, and workshop facilitator who works as a multidisciplinary performer, musical director, lecturer, and consultant on access and audio description.

In this episode, Mariana interviewed Maria Oshodi whose work is experimental, intersectional, and pushes the artistic and aesthetic boundaries between experience, identity and place. She founded Britain’s leading performing arts company of visually impaired artists Extant and collaborates with other artists, freelancing on a number of independent arts projects.

In this episode Mariana interviewed Dr Anna Bramwell-Dicks, interdisciplinary lecturer in Interactive Media within the School of Arts and Creative Technologies. Anna's research and teaching interests span different areas of the school but are primarily driven by an interest in the role of (new) technology, media and music in improving health, wellbeing and access and the relationship between different modalities (e.g. sound, haptics) and storytelling within these new media forms.