All posts tagged: Digital security

As part of the Chicago Archives + Artists Festival, we held an info session with Lucy Parsons Labs, a Chicago-based collaboration between data scientists, transparency activists, and technologists focusing on the intersection of digital rights and on-the-streets issues, to talk about the way that digital security and digital preservation intersects for activists and artists. At Sixty, we decided to put together this event because in documenting artists from marginalized communities, we realize that many artists serve a dual role as artists and activists. When our communities are underfunded, underrepresented, and attacked, it is natural that artists might feel the need to use their voices and talents in this manner. The dual role of artist/activist can make someone hypervisible and that hypervisibility needs to be examined in the context of mass surveillance and online attacks including doxing. (Trans artist Sophie Labelle, creator of Assigned Male was recently a victim of doxing, received thousands of death threats, and lost nearly three years of her work. If you would like to help here is her Patreon.)  In this discussion we talked …