Creating Empowering Counter-Narratives through Collective Digital Art by Disabled People

Summary

Honorable Mention, DIS 2026: a collective digital art project led by an internationally acclaimed disabled artist with 16 local disabled people in Japan, whose iPad self-portraits became a large inflatable sculpture.

@inproceedings{barbareschi2026counter,
    author = "Barbareschi, Giulia and Sato, Chihiro and Chen, Dunya and Chen, Sifan and Koga, Eimi and Wilsher-Mills, Jason and Kunze, Kai",
    title = "Creating Empowering Counter-Narratives through Collective Digital Art by Disabled People",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Designing Interactive Systems Conference",
    year = "2026",
    pages = "278--293",
    doi = "10.1145/3800645.3813063"
}