Digital Surveillance, Privacy, and Preservation in Community-based Archives

A conversation and interactive workshop considering the ethics of digital archiving, with Steven Booth & Stacie Williams, Marika Cifor, Yo-Yo Lin & J Soto, and Yvette Ramírez, moderated by Tracy Fenix.

In this interactive program, archivists and audience members will critically examine how concerns around surveillance and privacy intersect with archival practices, and discuss how living, community-based digital archives can build caring policies that best serve BIPOC and marginalized communities.

The event will begin with a panel discussion, followed by breakout sessions where attendees will be invited to collectively reimagine and rescript digital preservation policies for the Visual AIDS' Artist+ Registry.

Panelists:

Steven Booth & Stacie Williams, co-founders of The Blackivists Collective

Marika Cifor, Assistant Professor, University of Washington

Yvette Ramírez, archivist and MSI student, University of Michigan

Yo-Yo Lin & J Soto, co-authors of “Towards an NYC Disability Artist Registry”

moderated by Tracy Fenix, Artist Engagement & Archive Associate at Visual AIDS

For more information about the panelists, visit the Visual AIDS website: https://visualaids.org/events/detail/digital-policy-program

Visual AIDS actively works to expand the Archive Project and digital Artist+ Registry, which honors and supports the work and legacy of over 900 artists living with HIV and estates both locally, nationally, and internationally. Through our website, public programs, publications, and other projects, we aim to foreground the voices of artists living with HIV and to activate the legacies of those who have been lost to the epidemic.