Christopher Robert Jones and Liza Sylvestre are transdisciplinary artists and writers based in Illinois. They are Research Assistant Professors at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign where they co-founded Crip*—Cripistemology and the Arts, a creative and experimental research lab and pedagogical initiative housed within the College of Fine and Applied Arts. Through their art, research and pedagogic projects they explore how the complication of the normative sensory hierarchy can function as conceptual and aesthetic material. They define the artwork as a potential site to both share experience and to form new ways of understanding the intersection of senses, access, and learned systems of communication. Their work has been shown internationally at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, US), the Irish Film Institute (Dublin, IE), Plains Art Museum (Fargo, US), the Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, US), John Hansard Gallery (Southampton, UK), ARGOS (Brussels, BE), Soap Factory (Minneapolis, US), Gallery 400 (Chicago, IL), BFI Southbank (London, UK), the MIT List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge, US), the Zimmerli Art Museum (New Jersey, US), Museum Für Neue Kunst (Freiburg im Breisgau, DE), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego, US), Museum Marta Herford (Herford, DE), and Museum für Modern Kunst (Frankfurt, DE). They have been the recipients of numerous grants and fellowships including a grant from the Mellon Foundation, a Joan Mitchell Fellowship, an Arts Work Grant from the NEA and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Fellowship.