Captioning Case Study: Shana Moulton and Emily Watlington

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
264 Canal St #3W
New York, NY, 10013
June 24th, 2025

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EAI is thrilled to invite artist Shana Moulton and critic and senior editor of Art in America, Emily Watlington, for a conversation on audiovisual access in EAI’s collection. Using Moulton’s video The Galactic Pot Healer (2010) as a case study, the two will reflect on their experiences adapting this work to evolving standards of accessibility. Moulton and Watlington will engage in dialogue on their collaborative process, demonstrating how artists and institutions can collaborate to preserve moving image art by creating new pathways for meaningful audience engagement.

This evening expands EAI’s ongoing programmatic focus on accessibility in moving image art, which publicly highlights the organization’s efforts to make its collection more accessible through captioning and audio description. EAI hopes to frame audiovisual accessibility as a generative and necessary component of stewarding artworks across time. This program builds from previous events and initiatives centering accessibility in EAI’s collection, including Radical Accessibility: Making Media Art Collections Truly Accessible and (Mis)Reading the Image: Selections by Darrin Martin.

Watlington’s essay, The Radical Accessibility of Video Art (For Hearing People) (2020) was an important catalyst for EAI, which was founded on the principle of access. EAI has since strived to expand our application of this word to engage disabled audiences and shed light on the institutional, governmental, social, and financial barriers to making video art truly accessible.

If you have any accessibility needs or questions about our access plans for this event, please contact cstrange@eai.org. We can accommodate requests for ASL interpretation up to two weeks prior to June 24.

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)’s venue is located at 264 Canal Street, 3W, near several Canal Street subway stations. Our floor is accessible by elevator (63" × 60" car, 31" door) and stairway. Due to the age and other characteristics of the building, our bathrooms are not ADA-accessible, though several such bathrooms are located nearby. If you have questions about access, please contact cstrange@eai.org in advance of the event.