Introducing Lary: A Cripistemology of Breath
Posted by tmemmott in AI work, Media Work, Video Work, on June 16, 2026
A Cripistemology of Breath is the second video in the Introducing Lary series. This video melds auto‑ethnography with AI‑assisted video and sound generation to interrogate the epistemic possibilities opened by disabled embodiment. Anchored in the artist’s life after a total laryngectomy, the work reframes breathing—now routed through a neck stoma—and speech— now crafted through a tracheoesophageal voice prosthesis—as both subjects and structuring devices. Audible inhalations and exhalations trigger visual and auditory transitions, rendering respiration a metronome for thought while an AI clone of the artist’s pre‑cancer voice, tracheoesophageal voice, and electrolarynx voice delivers a “cripistemological” script about modes of knowing grounded in bodily difference.
This work was presented at ELO 2025.
Exhibited as part of the More than Meets AI exhibition Berkeley CA, Bergen Norway, Lake Forest/Chicago IL