In “Recoding CripTech,” Artists Highlight the Vital Role of Hacking in Disability Culture

Exhibitions devoted to access technology often feel like trade shows. Even groundbreaking and progressive institutional exhibitions such as “Access+Ability” at New York’s Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in 2018 tend to focus on projects that treat disability a problem for technology to solve, with updated designs of prosthetics and assistive devices. Instead,“Recoding CripTech,” on view at SOMArts in San Francisco through February 25, focuses on artists&rsqu