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IDH VICTORIES

DIGITAL RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS:

DIGITAL RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS:

Minneapolis, MN and Online
February 2021

In partnership with:

The Institute for Digital Humanity 
The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy
ACLU Minnesota
Native Youth Arts Collective
North Central University
Post ME Coalition
Councilman Steve Fletcher
(Minneapolis, MN)

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The Call to Action:

A juried art exhibition and community conversation —
“Digital Rights are Civil Rights” — that focused on the intersection of race and technology, and was curated to catalyze local and national community conversations on digital ethics. 

It took place virtually and physically on February 19th, 2021. One week after our bipartisan coalition passed the historic ban on facial recognition technology in Minneapolis.

THANK YOU TO:
The hundreds of artists from around the world who contributed and participated in this powerful event.

IDH AI LAW and POLICY INITIATIVES

Minneapolis City Councilmen Steve Fletcher

Digital Rights Are Civil Rights debuted the same week​

Minneapolis banned facial recognition.  Here are our elected official's thoughts on next steps.

Gallery 1: 2D/Visual Art

Gallery 2: Video Art

The Conversation

The irony of one of our artists (Xavier McFarlin) being censored/flagged by social media companies (for an installation ABOUT artistic censorship/digital racism) just proves the necessity of these conversations.

See that discussion and others below. You won't be bored.

IDH AI LAW and POLICY INITIATIVES

Interview with co-curator Steven Pedersen

The IAA's Critic-in-Residence discusses why art is an essential weapon in the fight against algorithmic discrimination and
censorship.

Interview with artist Eyal Gruss

We get to the bottom of cancel culture in the AI era.

Interview with artist Avital Meshi

Community Conversation: What do we want our digital future to look like?

Interview with Munira Mohammed (ACU MN)

The Curation

The IDH partners with the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy on cutting-edge curation strategies:

Training our docents to spark and navigate allegedly 'impossible' conversations, capturing our audiences' real time reactions, and amplifying community voices through strategic messaging.

VISIT THE INSTITUTE FOR AESTHETIC ADVOCACY

Thank you to our artists:

​Avital Meshi

Xavier McFarlin

Eyal Guss

Anlan Huang

Calim Stamper

Trevor Coopersmith

Lance Johnson

Savior Allen-Knight

Hagen Klennert

Elieso Ortiz

Alondra M Garza

ART EXHIBITIONS

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