Human rights violations are more present in the public domain than ever before, not least due to the ubiquity of image sources: smartphones, satellites, surveillance equipment, and police body cameras produce large volumes of audiovisual material that documents violent and repressive incidents, as well as persistent injustices.

Newsrooms, district attorney’s offices, and human rights organizations have become increasingly involved with processing and contextualizing these data streams, in respect to both breaking news as well as investigative journalism and accountability mechanisms. Interdisciplinary teams composed of architects, filmmakers, and computer scientists, among others, employ a diverse constellation of instruments and methods to analyze violations across time and space.

Curators: Andres Lepik, Lisa Luksch (in partnership with the Architekturmuseum der TUM at the Technical University of Munich)