AO Roberts
@aoroberts.bsky.social
Artist, writer, musician. Sound art, noise + disability, new media, voice+synthesis, crip futurity. Plants Properties Equipment, virtual world + OST. VOR:solo sounds. they/them. aoroberts.com, https://ao-roberts.itch.io/ppe
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AO Roberts
@aoroberts.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Plants Properties Equipment, by Chisato Minamimura, Molly Joyce, Johanna Hedva, Andy Slater, VOR, Medical Museum
6 track album
fieldhospital.bandcamp.com
Plants Properties Equipment - OST out now. Featuring tracks by Deaf and Disabled sound artists, experimental musicians, composers, and performance artists. All tracks appear within the downloadable virtual world at ao-roberts.itch.io/ppe
fieldhospital.bandcamp.com/album/plants...
fieldhospital.bandcamp.com/album/plants...
Over several months last winter, Zoe Cinel + I corresponded, trading thoughts about crip sanctuary, plants, rituals, and the caduceus. ⚕️⚕️ Excited for this writing to appear in the new issue of Backflash - in stores + online in June.
Cover:AO/Zoe collab print “u/t(snake)”, 2025. 🐍♿️✨ blackflash.ca
Cover:AO/Zoe collab print “u/t(snake)”, 2025. 🐍♿️✨ blackflash.ca
May 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Over several months last winter, Zoe Cinel + I corresponded, trading thoughts about crip sanctuary, plants, rituals, and the caduceus. ⚕️⚕️ Excited for this writing to appear in the new issue of Backflash - in stores + online in June.
Cover:AO/Zoe collab print “u/t(snake)”, 2025. 🐍♿️✨ blackflash.ca
Cover:AO/Zoe collab print “u/t(snake)”, 2025. 🐍♿️✨ blackflash.ca
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“Centering a utilitarian AI literacy in classrooms, rather than critical reasoning, is a way of preparing… for its inevitability… OpenAI [+] Common Sense Media [created] an AI… pgm for educators. Most of the lesson boiled down to: ‘It’s up to you to figure out how to use this in your classroom.’”
The Ugliest Thing San Francisco Ever Built: Lessons for AI Infrastructure | TechPolicy.Press
Eryk Salvaggio asks, are we again poised to value technological infrastructure over our shared social infrastructure?
www.techpolicy.press
January 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
“Centering a utilitarian AI literacy in classrooms, rather than critical reasoning, is a way of preparing… for its inevitability… OpenAI [+] Common Sense Media [created] an AI… pgm for educators. Most of the lesson boiled down to: ‘It’s up to you to figure out how to use this in your classroom.’”
Excited to share that 𝙋𝙇𝘼𝙉𝙏𝙎 𝙋𝙍𝙊𝙋𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙄𝙀𝙎 𝙀𝙌𝙐𝙄𝙋𝙈𝙀𝙉𝙏 + OST are now available for FREE DOWNLOAD, with all fees waived.
PPE is lush virtual world full of strange monuments + sonic offerings by disability artists Chisato Minamimura, Molly Joyce, Andy Slater, Medical Museum. ✨🌱🪐
ao-roberts.itch.io/ppe
PPE is lush virtual world full of strange monuments + sonic offerings by disability artists Chisato Minamimura, Molly Joyce, Andy Slater, Medical Museum. ✨🌱🪐
ao-roberts.itch.io/ppe
PLANTS PROPERTIES EQUIPMENT by AO Roberts
Search for medical care on an unknown planet.
ao-roberts.itch.io
January 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Excited to share that 𝙋𝙇𝘼𝙉𝙏𝙎 𝙋𝙍𝙊𝙋𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙄𝙀𝙎 𝙀𝙌𝙐𝙄𝙋𝙈𝙀𝙉𝙏 + OST are now available for FREE DOWNLOAD, with all fees waived.
PPE is lush virtual world full of strange monuments + sonic offerings by disability artists Chisato Minamimura, Molly Joyce, Andy Slater, Medical Museum. ✨🌱🪐
ao-roberts.itch.io/ppe
PPE is lush virtual world full of strange monuments + sonic offerings by disability artists Chisato Minamimura, Molly Joyce, Andy Slater, Medical Museum. ✨🌱🪐
ao-roberts.itch.io/ppe
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Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
Well-known Virginia Tech professor dies at 81
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
www.wdbj7.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:52 AM
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
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General reminder that your tweets / posts / replies WILL be brought up during depositions if you're ever involved in litigation. Sometimes it's fun (as below), usually it's not.
My favorite moment during my deposition in my successful lawsuit against the LAPD was when their lawyer quizzed me about a flaming cop car piñata I'd posted to Twitter
December 6, 2024 at 1:50 AM
General reminder that your tweets / posts / replies WILL be brought up during depositions if you're ever involved in litigation. Sometimes it's fun (as below), usually it's not.
Launching 𝙎𝙡𝙪𝙖𝙜𝙝 𝙂𝙝𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙢 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙩 today for my print projects that work with text spells and talismanic protection, limited drops at decidedly *not* art world prices. 1st Drop 11/12/24
𝙉𝙤 𝙒𝙚𝙖𝙥𝙤𝙣 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝘼𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧, deformed scripture on 7" record stock.
www.instagram.com/sluaghghairm...
December 5, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Launching 𝙎𝙡𝙪𝙖𝙜𝙝 𝙂𝙝𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙢 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙩 today for my print projects that work with text spells and talismanic protection, limited drops at decidedly *not* art world prices. 1st Drop 11/12/24
𝙉𝙤 𝙒𝙚𝙖𝙥𝙤𝙣 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝘼𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧, deformed scripture on 7" record stock.
www.instagram.com/sluaghghairm...
Few cultural 'firsts' have been as dubious an honour as what Chase Strangio faces today. Sending solidarity as he begins arguments against anti-trans laws in US v. Skrmetti, - watch live at 10 am EST www.supremecourt.gov
He’s set to be the first known transgender lawyer to argue before Supreme Court. For Chase Strangio, the mission ‘is not lost on me’ | CNN
For Chase Strangio, the professional path that’s led to this moment – in which he’ll have 15 minutes to present an argument defending gender-affirming care for trans youth before the Supreme Court – c...
www.cnn.com
December 4, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Few cultural 'firsts' have been as dubious an honour as what Chase Strangio faces today. Sending solidarity as he begins arguments against anti-trans laws in US v. Skrmetti, - watch live at 10 am EST www.supremecourt.gov
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ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio says the anti-trans climate in the United States — one that is legitimized by many Democratic leaders — leads to "material harm for our community on top of the rhetorical and cultural harms." www.democracynow.org/2024/11/27/t...
November 27, 2024 at 4:47 PM
ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio says the anti-trans climate in the United States — one that is legitimized by many Democratic leaders — leads to "material harm for our community on top of the rhetorical and cultural harms." www.democracynow.org/2024/11/27/t...
“Prosper Niyonzima spent nearly five years in immigration detention, including two years in solitary confinement, after a mental health crisis left him unable to communicate … his detention review hearings continued with a designated representative making decisions on his behalf.“
#IDPD2024
#IDPD2024
NEW: Canada’s immigration detention system discriminates against people with disabilities, including through widespread violations of their right to make crucial decisions about their own lives. #IDPD2024
www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...
www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...
December 3, 2024 at 8:02 PM
“Prosper Niyonzima spent nearly five years in immigration detention, including two years in solitary confinement, after a mental health crisis left him unable to communicate … his detention review hearings continued with a designated representative making decisions on his behalf.“
#IDPD2024
#IDPD2024
I did a little interview with Akimbo this week about my recently released virtual world and OST featuring Deaf + Disabled artists Johanna Hedva, Andy Slater, Molly Joyce, Chisato Minamimura, Medical Museum (Hang Linton and Laura Lulika) and VOR. The interview is up now at akimbo.ca/akimblog/ao-...
AO Roberts on PPE – Akimbo
Plants Properties Equipment virtual world menu AO Roberts is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, writer, and curator based in Treaty 1 territory, Winnipeg. They recently released Plants Properties E...
akimbo.ca
December 2, 2024 at 3:14 PM
I did a little interview with Akimbo this week about my recently released virtual world and OST featuring Deaf + Disabled artists Johanna Hedva, Andy Slater, Molly Joyce, Chisato Minamimura, Medical Museum (Hang Linton and Laura Lulika) and VOR. The interview is up now at akimbo.ca/akimblog/ao-...
AO Roberts on PPE – Akimbo
Plants Properties Equipment virtual world menu AO Roberts is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, writer, and curator based in Treaty 1 territory, Winnipeg. They recently released Plants Properties E...
akimbo.ca
December 1, 2024 at 4:19 PM
I did a little interview with Akimbo this week about my recently released virtual world and OST featuring Deaf + Disabled artists Johanna Hedva, Andy Slater, Molly Joyce, Chisato Minamimura, Medical Museum (Hang Linton and Laura Lulika) and VOR. The interview is up now at akimbo.ca/akimblog/ao-...
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Can I offer you some kitty snores in this trying time?
December 1, 2024 at 5:31 AM
Can I offer you some kitty snores in this trying time?
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A once per generation exhibit on Hokusai at the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City. This from the artist’s 100 ghost story series. Yes they have the Mount Fuji and Wave paintings.
November 30, 2024 at 9:41 PM
A once per generation exhibit on Hokusai at the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City. This from the artist’s 100 ghost story series. Yes they have the Mount Fuji and Wave paintings.
No work allowed, only rubber band.
November 30, 2024 at 7:49 PM
No work allowed, only rubber band.
Today is Creator’s Friday on itch.io, where 𝙋𝙇𝘼𝙉𝙏𝙎 𝙋𝙍𝙊𝙋𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙄𝙀𝙎 𝙀𝙌𝙐𝙄𝙋𝙈𝙀𝙉𝙏 is hosted. If you’d like to spend some time in this virtual world / experimental game with some stellar sonic crip offerings, today would be the day, as itch waives their cut. ✨🌱🪐
ao-roberts.itch.io/ppe
#disability #soundart
ao-roberts.itch.io/ppe
#disability #soundart
November 29, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Today is Creator’s Friday on itch.io, where 𝙋𝙇𝘼𝙉𝙏𝙎 𝙋𝙍𝙊𝙋𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙄𝙀𝙎 𝙀𝙌𝙐𝙄𝙋𝙈𝙀𝙉𝙏 is hosted. If you’d like to spend some time in this virtual world / experimental game with some stellar sonic crip offerings, today would be the day, as itch waives their cut. ✨🌱🪐
ao-roberts.itch.io/ppe
#disability #soundart
ao-roberts.itch.io/ppe
#disability #soundart
UK trans kids showing how it’s done. 🏳️⚧️✊🏼
BREAKING: New Action by Trans Kids Deserve Better (TKDB)
TKDB are holding a protest inside Victoria Station.
Updates, Photos and more video to follow.
TKDB are holding a protest inside Victoria Station.
Updates, Photos and more video to follow.
November 27, 2024 at 9:51 PM
UK trans kids showing how it’s done. 🏳️⚧️✊🏼
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The New York Times has been credibly accused of *inventing* the current anti-trans moment in the Democratic party.
They have been publicly whipping up anti-trans sentiment, intentionally and with consistency, for literal years now.
Do not reward them with views and clicks.
They have been publicly whipping up anti-trans sentiment, intentionally and with consistency, for literal years now.
Do not reward them with views and clicks.
NYT is almost always going to focus on the the worst framings about the trans community. The sooner folks accept that and move accordingly, the better.
November 26, 2024 at 3:35 PM
The New York Times has been credibly accused of *inventing* the current anti-trans moment in the Democratic party.
They have been publicly whipping up anti-trans sentiment, intentionally and with consistency, for literal years now.
Do not reward them with views and clicks.
They have been publicly whipping up anti-trans sentiment, intentionally and with consistency, for literal years now.
Do not reward them with views and clicks.
Medical Museum's "A Minor Injury" video performance is up now on Send+Receive's site until the end of the year.
sendandreceive.org/medicalmuseum/
So grateful for this track to appear on the Plants Properties Equipment game OST, out now. ao-roberts.itch.io/ppe,
#Disability #SoundArt #ArtGames
sendandreceive.org/medicalmuseum/
So grateful for this track to appear on the Plants Properties Equipment game OST, out now. ao-roberts.itch.io/ppe,
#Disability #SoundArt #ArtGames
November 25, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Medical Museum's "A Minor Injury" video performance is up now on Send+Receive's site until the end of the year.
sendandreceive.org/medicalmuseum/
So grateful for this track to appear on the Plants Properties Equipment game OST, out now. ao-roberts.itch.io/ppe,
#Disability #SoundArt #ArtGames
sendandreceive.org/medicalmuseum/
So grateful for this track to appear on the Plants Properties Equipment game OST, out now. ao-roberts.itch.io/ppe,
#Disability #SoundArt #ArtGames
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that alt text 😮💨🤌🏻
November 20, 2024 at 5:59 AM
that alt text 😮💨🤌🏻
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Way before editing software, Sergei Eisenstein invented a storyboard method incorporating storyboarding, music - in this case Prokofiev’s score - and an emotional temperature gauge
This is a scene from Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Isn’t it amazing?!
#movies #composition #graphic #history
This is a scene from Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Isn’t it amazing?!
#movies #composition #graphic #history
November 24, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Way before editing software, Sergei Eisenstein invented a storyboard method incorporating storyboarding, music - in this case Prokofiev’s score - and an emotional temperature gauge
This is a scene from Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Isn’t it amazing?!
#movies #composition #graphic #history
This is a scene from Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Isn’t it amazing?!
#movies #composition #graphic #history
Studio day editioning some print versions of these recent amulets.
November 24, 2024 at 5:55 AM
Studio day editioning some print versions of these recent amulets.