CODE Webproject
We want to make sure the general audience, politicians and policymakers are aware of the digital challenges of our time. We want big tech companies to be regulated, curb their power, and protect our digital rights. What role should governments play, and how can we make them understand the urgency to act? What can we as concerned citizens, researchers, and artists do to support this process?
In CODE, artists and non-artists work together on projects that address these issues and bring them to a wider audience. On this web project, we present the results from this collaboration, and we ask politicians to respond to the issues raised by the CODE participants. We also question them about their own responsibilities to address our lack of digital agency.
CODE seeks to bring together artists, non-artists, politicians, policymakers and researchers from Germany, Belgium, and The Netherlands to engage in dialogue, critical discussion, and artistic intervention. CODE does not refer to coding, instead it focuses on the code of digital ethics. With this project, we are trying to influence public policy on a national and international level, by creating awareness for issues at hand, and by defining ways in which we can improve laws and legislation that will protect us as digital citizens and consumers. We want to inspire and facilitate cross-disciplinary collaborations which hopefully have the potential to catalyse systemic change.
What you can look at right now is the online exhibition of CODE’s outcomes. This website serves as a way to document the different projects that were developed over the course of the entire programme.