CC Hart is a neurodivergent artist, writer, and researcher whose work is shaped by lived experience with synesthesia, attention differences, Tourette syndrome, migraine, sensory processing variability and other neurocognitive differences. These present both challenges and capacities, shaping how perception, memory, and attention are experienced and expressed.
Her work engages the concept of neurodiversity as articulated by Judy Singer, who introduced the term in 1998 to describe neurological variation as a natural and meaningful dimension of human diversity. The neurodiversity framework proposes that differences in cognition—including attention, sensory processing, social orientation, and learning—are not inherently pathological, but represent variations within the spectrum of human experience.
This perspective challenges deficit-based models rooted in diagnosis alone, and instead supports approaches that emphasize accommodation, accessibility, and the development of environments in which neurodivergent individuals can function, create, and communicate in ways that are sustainable and authentic. It includes advocacy for inclusive educational systems, workplace accommodations, assistive technologies, and support structures that respect autonomy and lived experience.
For Hart, neurodivergence is not an abstract concept but an ongoing, embodied reality. Her writing and visual work explore the friction of inhabiting a perceptual world that does not always align with normative expectations—where sensory input, memory, and emotional resonance can be intensified, misaligned, or difficult to translate. This includes both the limitations and the unexpected capacities that emerge from atypical perception, including forms of synesthetic association that shape memory and cognition.
Her work does not attempt to resolve these tensions, but to examine them: to make visible the internal experiences that are often misunderstood, minimized, or medicalized, and to create space for more nuanced understandings of difference.
CC Hart serves on the executive board of the International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists (IASAS), where she contributes to the organization of symposia and interdisciplinary arts programming.
