Abstract
The Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and Action is a community-led participatory digital archive of art and activism inspired, influenced, or affected by displacement. Co-founded by an international group of artists, curators, activists, and an archivist, The Amplification Project provides a platform for any artist or cultural producer to preserve, showcase, and share their work that narrates or contemplates experiences of forced migration, asylum-seeking, and refugeeness. Since its beta launch in mid-2020, the archive has received over 100 submissions from fifteen artists worldwide, including photographs, videos, digital images of visual art, and photo- and illustrated narratives. Drawing from my experience as a co-founder and archivist, and through the notions of “slow activism” (Heim, 2003), refugeetude (Nguyen, 2019), and socially engaged archival practice, in this paper, I explore the development, current work, and future aspirations of The Amplification Project, and contemplate participatory digital archives as modes of community and solidarity building and social and aesthetic production.
Presenters
Kathy CarboneAssistant Professor, School of Information, Pratt Institute, California, United States
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
New Media, Technology and the Arts
KEYWORDS
Community archives, Participatory digital archives, Art, Displacement, Refugees
