Screening and conversation with artist Alison O’Daniel

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A selection of artist Alison O’Daniel’s short films, films in progress, and film excerpts from her feature The Tuba Thieves, all emphasizing the artist’s exploration of open captioning. Proposing total access for dDeaf/Hard of Hearing/etc., open captions are burned into the image, as opposed to closed captions that can be turned on or off by the viewer. Followed by a conversation with Alison O’Daniel and UCLA Professor of Design Media Arts and artist Lauren Lee McCarthy.

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About

Alison O’Daniel and Lauren Lee McCarthy are the 2025 faculty-community partnership for the Disability Studies Heumann Lab.  This event will feature excerpts from Alison’s 2023 film The Tuba Thieves, Alison’s new film about sound violence and ableism called A Disaster, and the Opening Captions project that Alison and Lauren have focused on for their partnership.

Lauren Lee McCarthy is an artist examining social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation, and algorithmic living. She creates performances inviting viewers to engage. To remote control her dates. To be followed. To welcome her in as their human smart home. To attend a party hosted by artificial intelligence. Lauren is the creator of p5.js, an open-source creative coding platform that prioritizes inclusion and access with over 10 million users worldwide. She is also Professor at UCLA Design Media Arts. Lauren’s work has been recognized by Creative Capital, United States Artists, LACMA, Sundance, Eyebeam, MacDowell, Pioneer Works, and Ars Electronica, among others. Her work Someone was awarded the Ars Electronica Golden Nica and the Japan Media Arts Social Impact Award, and her work LAUREN was awarded the IDFA DocLab Award. Lauren’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Barbican Centre, Ars Electronica, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Chronus Art Center, and Seoul Museum of Art.

Alison O’Daniel is a d/Deaf visual artist and filmmaker. Her film ‘The Tuba Thieves’ premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast on Independent Lens on PBS and Arte in 2024. O’Daniel is a United States Artist 2022 Disability Futures Fellow and a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in Film/Video. Her artwork has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; Centro Centro, Madrid, Spain; Renaissance Society, Chicago; Art in General, New York; Centre d’art Contemporain Passerelle, Brest, France; Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia; Argos Center for Audiovisual Arts, Brussels and many other international museums and galleries. O’Daniel has received grants from Ford Foundation; Sundance; Creative Capital; Field of Vision; ITVS; Chicken & Egg; SFFILM. She has developed projects in various labs, including Points North; Sundance Talent Forum; True/False/Catapult Editing Lab, and has attended residencies at the Wexner Center Film/Video Studio Program; Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown; and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She was included in Filmmaker Magazine’s 2019 25 New Faces of Independent Film issue. She is represented by Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles and is an Associate Professor of Film at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.