Image Description: there is a purple-pink circular dance floor in an infinite expanse of dark digital space. a pink disco ball floats above. the club floor - and also the transparent ceiling - are 3D models from yo-yo lin's resilience journal project, a crip data gathering methodology for finding ways of feeling outside of biomedical regimes of quantification. the models create little raised plinths where yo-yo originally registered sensational intensities over the course of one month. just above the dance floor is a block of 3D text, in chunky pixelated font, that names the space where we will party inside the conduits of our beautifully messy forms of connection: GLITCHREALM. in the foreground is yo-yo wearing headphones in the video feed that is the head of her avatar- a square head with rectangular body. behind her is kevin gotkin also as a rectangular avatar, smiling with a black cap on.

Remote Access: GlitchRealm is a virtual dance party centering disability nightlife and access magic organized by Yo-Yo Lin and Kevin Gotkin. Let’s blur the lines between URL/ IRL and glitch endlessly, dancing in the lag together. Featuring a 3D virtual dance club and lounge, time-bending performances, live DJ sets, cyber rituals, real-time captions, audio description, ASL, access doulas and more!

DJ set: DJ Queer Shoulders
Performances: JJJJJerome Ellis, Pelenakeke Brown, and more!
Virtual Art: Aminder Virdee, Yo-Yo Lin, Torin Blankensmith, and more!
Access magic: Kevin Gotkin, Stanley Sakai, and many many more!

There are two portals to the GlitchRealm:

GlitchRealm 3D is a virtual party and lounge space that lives on the computer browser through the Arium 3D meeting platform. Use your keyboard to move your avatar around the party space from the dance floor to the lounge. There will be Access Doulas to assist and ASL for the music and performances. 

Zooming into GlitchRealm uses the Zoom meeting platform where a live video stream of the party will be available to enjoy. This will be similar to previous Remote Access parties with performances spotlit throughout the night. There will be chatbox, live captions, ASL, and Audio Description here.

A full participation guide is available here.

Friday, April 23
8-10pm EDT / 5-7pm PDT
Free

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Yo-Yo Lin is a Taiwanese-American, interdisciplinary media artist who explores the possibilities of self-knowledge in the context of emerging, embodied technologies. She often uses generative animation, live performance, and lush sound design to create meditative ‘memoryscapes.’ Her current work reveals and re-values the complex realities of living with chronic illness. Through researching and developing methodologies in reclaiming chronic health trauma, she investigates the generative nature of the ill/ disabled bodymind and facilitates sites for community-centered abundance. She was a 2019 ‘Access’ Artist in Residence at Eyebeam and has shown her work at SXSW, NYFF, and the Allied Media Conference.