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QUESTIONS FOR EARS HAVE WALLS:

1. What qualities of sound are you hoping to explore in your Sound Object assignment? Ex/ affective qualities, physical qualities, experimental sound production, etc.
2. What parts of this reading piqued your interest? What could you relate to?
3. Did you find any parts of this reading challenging or hard to understand?
4. What sound works (not only sound objects) have you come across outside of class, if any? What did you think of them?
5. In this reading, can you locate the conceptual or formal qualities of art examples we looked at in class, or examples you’ve come across elsewhere?

QUESTIONS FOR THE JUPITER RESIDENCY + CYRÉE JARELLE JOHNSON AND CAROLYN LAZARD

1. Did you read one or both of these texts? If one, which one? What did you find most striking about what you read? Did you learn anything new?
2. Carolyn Lazard says: “Disability and futurity appear to be incompatible in an ableist world.” Think about examples of utopia and dystopia you have encountered in media. How is disability portrayed? What about depictions of racialized disabled characters?
3. In Marisa Müsing’s Stuck in the Motherboard (2023), the video is narrated by a “queer cyborg” stuck inside of a computer. How does the concept of the cyborg (a human whose body is interfaced with technology) complicate or transform your ideas about disability and futurity? How might the cyborg shed light on Lazard’s declaration that, “Access can also be beautiful and aesthetically innovative”?
4. In Side Quest #1: The Jupiter Residency, the character Amelia mentions Mia Mingus’ concept of access intimacy, described as “the unmasking we feel when we visit each other’s planets, and we’re no longer trying to keep up with anyone else.” In what ways do you think the the speculative idea of a network of interplanetary artist residencies imagines disability justice for artists? What would your planet be like?
5. The character of the teenage sperm whale is Lizzy Rose’s Sick, blue sea (2018) tells their story to an invisible audience via a blog. Similarly, the authors of The Jupiter Residency chose not to include the main character’s responses to Amelia’s transmissions, and the cyborg in Stuck in the Motherboard is accompanied in the computer only by her multiple virtual identities. What effect does the emphasis of isolation have in these works? How do virtual connections shape collectivity?