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AO Roberts
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Artist, writer, musician. Sound art, noise + disability, new media, voice+synthesis, crip futurity. Plants Properties Equipment, virtual world + OST. VOR:solo sounds. they/them. aoroberts.com, https://ao-roberts.itch.io/ppe
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Over several months last winter, Zoe Cinel + I corresponded, trading thoughts about crip sanctuary, plants, rituals, and the caduceus. ⚕️⚕️ Excited for this writing to appear in the new issue of Backflash - in stores + online in June.

Cover:AO/Zoe collab print “u/t(snake)”, 2025. 🐍♿️✨ blackflash.ca
Cover of BackFlash magazine with the name in big baby blue sans serif font and title of issue “Traces”. A big oozy snakes tail coils from top to bottom rendered in black and blue ink on a cream background. It suggests fluid motion and intertwining and has lots of little circle details that replicate a snakes scales. Names of the artists feature scroll across the top including AO Roberts + Zoe Cinel, Jamie Black-Morsette, Luis Jacob.
May 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 16
Book cover of “Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation” by Sunaura Taylor with white silhouettes of a cow with wheels and human in a wheelchair against a blueish grey background.
December 20, 2024 at 4:19 PM
aoroberts.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 15
Book cover of "Thee Psychick Bible: Thee Apocryphal Scriptures Genesis Breye P'Orridge and thee Third mind Thee Temple of Psychick Youth" with white text on a black background and the Temple of Psychick Youth insignia made of a vertical line intersected by three horizontal lines, the middle of which is shorter.
December 6, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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Launching 𝙎𝙡𝙪𝙖𝙜𝙝 𝙂𝙝𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙢 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙩 today for my print projects that work with text spells and talismanic protection, limited drops at decidedly *not* art world prices. 1st Drop 11/12/24

𝙉𝙤 𝙒𝙚𝙖𝙥𝙤𝙣 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝘼𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧, deformed scripture on 7" record stock.

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Silkscreen print with white ink on black paper with the text “No weapon formed against you will prosper” stacked in a column with each word’s mirror image repeated once underneath it, at the centre of the words portions of the text melt into illegibility.
December 5, 2024 at 6:16 PM
aoroberts.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 14
Book cover for “Ecodeviance: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness” by CA Conrad with black serif text on a beige background.
December 1, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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No work allowed, only rubber band.
A tuxedo cat with a fabulous moustache and green eyes sits on a closed laptop atop a dining room table, his right paw is extended with one claw arched and hooked on a rubber band.
November 30, 2024 at 7:49 PM
aoroberts.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 13
Book cover of “Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure” by Eli Clare. The art features green and white text on a grey background on the top and the bottom section is a close up photo smooth river rocks in subtle tones of grey, pink, brown and blue with one rock at the center covered by bright green lichen.
November 29, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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Today is Creator’s Friday on itch.io, where 𝙋𝙇𝘼𝙉𝙏𝙎 𝙋𝙍𝙊𝙋𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙄𝙀𝙎 𝙀𝙌𝙐𝙄𝙋𝙈𝙀𝙉𝙏 is hosted. If you’d like to spend some time in this virtual world / experimental game with some stellar sonic crip offerings, today would be the day, as itch waives their cut. ✨🌱🪐
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#disability #soundart
Nighttime in an alpine meadows, a hospital bed with white sheets sits in a field full of poppies, two planets hang in the sky a mountain is in the distance. Purple graphic two colour image with light lavender background overlaid with darker stylized angular text that reads “Plants Properties Equipment” granular shapes that hint at a landscape.
November 29, 2024 at 5:15 PM
aoroberts.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 12
Book cover of “Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings” by Marta Russell, with black and gold text and a faded watermark ampersand on a red background.
November 28, 2024 at 6:01 PM
aoroberts.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 11
Book cover of “Zami A New Spelling of my Name: A Biomythography by Audre Lorde”, with an orange background and a black and white woodcut style illustration of a black woman in a bisected landscape,tropical leaves, water and rolling hills on the left and big city buildings on the right.
November 27, 2024 at 7:58 PM
aoroberts.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 10
Book cover of “Autobiography of Red” by Anne Carson. The cover is beige with black text and a hazy sepia toned drawing of a white volcano behind low black hills.
November 26, 2024 at 9:27 PM
aoroberts.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 9
A hand holding the book “The Invention of Morel” by Aldolpho Bioy Casares with prologue by Jorge Louis Borges. The cover features a 1930’s era photo of a white woman in a white dress with a black bobbed hairstyle, leaning back in a chair, the side of her head resting on one hand.
November 26, 2024 at 1:49 AM
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Medical Museum's "A Minor Injury" video performance is up now on Send+Receive's site until the end of the year.
sendandreceive.org/medicalmuseum/
So grateful for this track to appear on the Plants Properties Equipment game OST, out now. ao-roberts.itch.io/ppe,
#Disability #SoundArt #ArtGames
November 25, 2024 at 6:58 PM
aoroberts.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 8
A book cover of “Slug” by Megan Milks with a red fluid hand painted text and a drawing of a slimy green and black slug standing upright against a blue sky and green horizon.
November 24, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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Studio day editioning some print versions of these recent amulets.
A grouping of freshly silkscreened prints on out in a grid on a drying rack in a print studio. The prints are multicolour semi-legible text amulets that read “bitter breeze”. A small wooden text based sculpture featuring semi-legible phrase “bitter breeze” on an orange and black marbled rectangular base. It is mounted perpendicular to the wall of a darkened gallery.
November 24, 2024 at 5:55 AM
aoroberts.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 7
A cream coloured cover book with a braid of sweetgrass bisecting its cover is held up on right side by a hand just in frame. The text in all caps light green serif reads “Braiding Sweetgrass” at the top and “Robin Wall Kimmerer” on the bottom. The subtitle in script reads “Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Technology of Plants.”
November 23, 2024 at 1:37 PM
aoroberts.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 6
Book held up by a hand on the left side of frame. The boom has a greenish grey cover with the title in red sans serif text on the bottom that reads, “BLOOD AND GUTS IN HIGH SCHOOL” with “a novel” in lowercase black letters atop a small golden triangle and the author’s name “Kathy Acker” at the top of the cover in gold text. Cantered on the page is a photograph ripped in half of a white woman with closely shorn bleached hair and small ring earrings who looks blankly head on at the camera
November 22, 2024 at 6:11 PM
aoroberts.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 5
Book cover held up on right side by barely visible thumb and pointer finger with stacked black serif font that reads, “George Bataille, Story of the Eye” overlaid orange swirling shapes descending vertically to an eyeball with brown iris.
November 21, 2024 at 11:08 PM
aoroberts.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 4
Inside title of white page of a book held open with a hand barely visible at the bottom of the frame, with black text reading: “Dorothy Allison: Two or Three Things I Know for Sure. A Dutton Book.” The author’s name is in script and the title is in all caps serif font stacked and centre justified. There is a little leaf Ivón between the author and the title and a company logo at the bottom of the page. All typography is contained within a light line rectangular frame.
November 20, 2024 at 3:28 PM
aoroberts.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 3
Book cover held up by a thumb on the left side. The cover art is an abstract red field with a large grey and black shape suggesting a building and the hint of leaf and stem shapes on the bottom left side. The text reads: “dhalgren” in white lower case sans serif font sitting above the author “samuel r. delany” in lower case blue sans serif, underneath are four columns separated by thin white lines reading: “Foreward by”, “William Gibson” and “Dhalgren’s the secret masterpiece, the city book labryinth that has swallowed astounded readers alive for almost 30 years. Its beauty and force still seem to be growing - Jonathan Lethem.”
November 19, 2024 at 4:53 PM
aoroberts.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 2
A book cover fills the frame held up in the left by a thumb just in frame, black text on a bright red background reads “Not Vanishing” at top, a white hand painted diagram of a white circle bisected by a vertical line and a horizontal line in the centre of the page. A the bottom in handwriting script style font the author’s name “Chrystos”.
November 18, 2024 at 7:45 PM
aoroberts.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 1
A book fills the frame with a thumb holding it up in bottom left corner. The cover art is a high contrast, tragic feeling antique photograph of three buffalo falling off a cliff in black silhouette. Two buffalo jump headfirst and a third falls backward with its feet toward the sky. The book’s title “Close to the Knives” is in red sans serif font, its subtitle in black “A Memoir of Disintegration”, and the author’s name David Wojnarowicz is white with green shadow.
November 17, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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Everyday is caturday, c’mon.
Two cats sit in a blue couch. On the left the white and tabby looks inquisitively toward the camera, on the right a black and white tuxedo cat with a black moustache looks sceptical.
November 17, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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Cool feature / helpful reminder here: you can change your settings to require alt-text before posting.
Screenshot of Bluesky accessibility setting menu with sliders to turn settings off and on. Under Alt Text heading there is a setting for “Require alt text before posting” and “Display larger alt text badges”. Under Media a setting for “Disable auto play for videos and GIFS” and under Haptics a setting for “Disable haptic feedback.”
November 17, 2024 at 10:03 AM
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Freddie approves of the move from nameless hell site.
A black and white tuxedo cat sits inside a white bookshelf staring at camera with big green eyes and a little black moustache. Some of the book titles on the shelf below include, “We want it all”, “So Long Been Dreaming”, The Emigrants” by WE Sebald, Baudelaire. and Jorge Luis Borges.
November 12, 2024 at 2:37 PM