Speakers:

Frederike Kaltheuner, Technology and Human Rights Director, Human Rights Watch

Swee Leng Harris, Litigation Director, Luminate Strategic Initiatives, Luminate Foundation

Claus Gunti, PhD, art historian, Centre de la photographie Genève

The conference will address human rights in the digital age, focusing on the following issues: surveillance tools and virtual borders; threats to democracy; exploitation and exclusion in the digital economy; appropriation of these tools in the process of artistic creation. To discuss these issues, the debate will bring a variety of perspectives, including one of the main NGOs active in the defence and promotion of human rights, a philanthropic foundation active on issues of governance and civic engagement, as well as the point of view of a specialist in the uses of technology in contemporary art.

Event jointly organised by Human Rights Watch and the Act On Your Future Foundation.

Image: Yingying Zhang