A long view of an empty hallway. White walls and gray flooring. at the end of the hall is a pair of floor length windows that reveal the dark night outside. This empty and unsettling hallway looks to be that of a medical facility.  The kind that suspenseful horror movies like you to be afraid of.On the floor at the beginning of the hallway are the words Andy Slater stacked on top of each other in capital letters. The letters are white and rest within the shadow cast on the floor.  As a child I used to stare down long hallways convinced that the artifacts of my vision were in fact ghosts or and identified  beings or just  weird people. Doing this would always scare me, just waiting for something to pop up, but I continue to do it anyway.—-

Hi, I’m Andy. Let me tell you about myself real quick…

I am a media artist and I am blind. I work extensively with sound (installation, immersive, XR, sound design, soundtrack, music),

sometimes image, sometimes video, sometimes text, and performance. Accessibility is very important to me and it is represented in a good portion of my work.

I love the sounds of antiquated adaptive technology, like all the old talking books players, noisy sonar wayfinding devices, echolocation clickers, and the bumps and bangs of my trusty white cane. i use accessible audio technology to create my work. Whether that’s proTools, zoom H3/f6, Shure & Apogee ios Recording apps, or Reaper. If it’s compatible with the voiceover screen reader I will use it for both good and evil.

I am a teaching artist, too, working with the Young Sound Seekers, Midwest Society For Acoustic Ecology, and the Society of Visually Impaired Sound Artists.

I am in accessibility advisor, too. I have worked with fancy art museums, fancy Galleries, Durty Galleries, children’s Museums, universities, individual artists, evil corporations, good corporations, nonprofit film festivals, and even my bank.

I can hang with academia but I am more comfortable playing in dirt.

I am a big fan of analog synthesizer’s, too. I don’t let it ruin my marriage or ruin my savings account. I don’t have a habit. 

You will have a chance to read my full bio and check out my résumé if you want to know more.

Since I am admittedly unreliable when it comes to maintaining this site either will be actively writing blog posts to announce new projects and other news as opposed to digging it into a particular page.

And since I am a blind person I am not going to buy into the ocular – centrist hegemony that the Internet has standardized

I’m not going to have a ton of images on this site and when I do they will all contain alt text Image descriptions. Oh, and correct grammar is a total scam and I’m not playing along!

News

Recent Work

This is my recent résumé

Unseen Reheard (album)

This is a digital and cassette release that came out in March 2020 right about the time the world got shut down. This work was composed from field recording sources from physical spaces and outdoors. This is my first physical solo release in 25 years.

Check it out at No Index records

The Chicago Sound Show exhibition (University of Chicago/Smart Museum, 2019)

This was a group show. You can watch/listen to the WGN News feature here. This segment features an interview with yours truly. Here is the program for all of the details.

6 Flags Gallery presents Andy Slater: (Master Class, 2020)

This is the archive of a live stream from July 2020. I think of it as a conversational retrospective covering 1995-2020. Lots of old work, newer work, progressions, digressions, and ideas that haven’t changed. I have a one sided discussion about my practice, disability, and sound. Posted to YouTube because of the AI captioning service.

My Comic Book

This is the cover image to the comic book how many fingers am I holding up?   Illustration is drawn in the style of jack Chick. A man wearing a fedora holds  his fingers up in andy‘s face. Text reads, “how many fingers am I holding up? “By andy slater"

I published a comic book illustrating the stigma I face being blind and my personal attitude towards dealing with it.

Read it here.

Contact Andy

Want to reach me? andyslatery2k@gmail.com would be the way to do so.