The Ugly Podcast

The Ugly Podcast


Disability & Innovation w/ M Eifler

February 05, 2024

Today’s episode is all about the importance of queering up the creativity process and I am lucky enough to be joined by M Eifler (they/them), a San Francisco-based artist who uses art and technology to explore disability as a hotbed of innovation.


M and I talk about the way their disability has helped them evolve their creative approaches, including their #ArtSchoolFromBed series, the importance of starting where their body is rather than a level of skill, and how their disability actually means they do not have the energy for perfectionism. M also shared how they use a scientific-method-type approach to creativity as a way to invite and welcome the messy and ugly (!) results.


You can find M’s work on their website blinkpopshift.com and you can support them on their Patreon and possibly host of their incredible pieces by becoming a patron.


References:
Art 21
Activist affordances 
Ugly Laws