DisCo Crawler

A screenshot shows stim bracelets move in circular motions across a p5js sketch. Inbetween are rotated photos of a cane.

Creative Coding, 2024, supported by a Processing Foundation Fellowship Program Grant

DISCO CRAWLER archives the wisdom that disabled people share on social media and turns crip knowledges into posters for web and print. DISCO stands for Disabled Community, crawling points to web technologies.

The further availability of knowledge collected under hashtags such as #Ableismtellsme, #DisabilityTooWhite, #ActuallyAutistic, #AltTextPalestine and more, is at the whim of proprietary platforms. DISCO CRAWLER wants to build an otherwise archive of holding, lovingly visualizing, and publishing the meaningful insights, critiques and survival techniques that disabled people continue to share generously online amidst a global pandemic.

The project centers disabled communities and engages crawling as both a crip and web technology. Disabled people have famously crawled up the stairs of the U. S. American Capitol Building to demand equal rights. Crawling is also a technical term for when a program visits websites in search of certain information. DISCO CRAWLER is built on disabled histories of crawling and crawls on in search of crip wisdom.