For the
Love of
Inquiry

Companies such as Amazon, Google, or Facebook are building infrastructures that make it possible for artists and communities across borders to connect, share work, and similarities. Yet the very same technologies are policing, surveilling, and restricting persons from moving across borders. Disproportionally, this affects Black, Brown, and marginalized communities. This development is emblematic of the increasingly omnipresent surveilling border-technology.  In this panel, we explore the role artists have in responding to these emerging technologies. How can artists reappropriate the technologies of the military/police-industrial complex? Can glitching be considered an abolitionist method?

Session: ‘Artists at the Digital Border: Between Surveillance and Emancipation’

Panelists: Liz Maelane, Miliaku Nwabueze

Hosted by: Ayodamola Okunseinde, Christoffer Horlitz, Ella Hillström