Disruption Network Lab’s 36th conference Technoviolence: Confronting Systematic Injustice analyses the production of evidence of systematic injustice, zooming in on human rights abuses in war conflicts, cyber-surveillance, political oppression in urban contexts and more.

The conference creates knowledge through situated experience and empower communities to imagine forms of resistance. It combines artistic practices and activist tactics with investigations and the strategic use of online tools to expose human rights abuses and produce evidence of invisible crimes that urgently require public discussion.

The conference will explore the artistic and investigatory potential to uncover facts, expose wrongdoing and raise awareness of social, political and technological issues. We propose to create a debate inviting organisations, artists and activists based in Berlin and internationally who are working scientifically to expose human rights abuses through artistic practices, investigations and online tools.

The conference addresses the role of direct action, art and activism in producing evidence in the context of war conflicts, border regimes and the systematic and strategic targeting of minorities for security purposes at the city level. It aims to inform about the risks of introducing technologies such as artificial intelligence, facial recognition software, cyber-surveillance, or the manipulation of social networks to facilitate state and corporate oppression of vulnerable people.

Speakers:
Terry Albury · Ifeoma Ozoma · Lynzy Billing · Heba Y. Amin · Anni Garza Lau · Gro Sarauw · Jennifer Kamau · Rima Sghaier · Lya Cuéllar · Sarah Ciston · Safa Ghnaim · Tammarrian Rogers · Caitlin L Chandler · Geert Lovink · Nil Uzun