L𰅅𰄓A O𰀲E𰄓𰅆𰄑𰀅

Lola is a multidisciplinary artist and technologist. She is curious about alternative forms of navigating and experiencing the web. Her work ‘What Do You See?: Alt Text as Artistic Medium’ asked an audience to reconsider their definition of an “image” and interrogate how the visual can be presented in alternative forms such as text. Drawing on the work of Evgen Bavcar, Geraldo Nigenda, Toni Morrison, Jack Whitten and alttextselfies.net, Lola encouraged the audience to create images using ekphrastic poetry and consider how they might describe the abstract pieces of Jack Whitten to a blind viewer. Lola’s technical work extends into open standards through various W3C groups including the W3C Technical Architecture Group where she serves as a co-chair.