Invisible Voice: Unveiling Power Structures Through Digital Transparency

Presentation of Invisible Voice, a digital platform that allows users to obtain economic, political, social and environmental information about the practices and people behind the websites of the organisations they visit. It is a tool that reveals power structures and seeks to promote collective action to bring about meaningful social change.

A project by Mark Farid, artist in residence at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) as part of the interdisciplinary residency promoted by HacTe, Hub of Art, Science and Technology of Barcelona, within the European project S+T+ARTS in the City, funded by the European Commission.

Organised by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, HacTe, Barcelona’s Hub of Art, Science and Technology, and the digital magazine Artnodes, this conference aims to explore in depth how the arts, the media, activism and science address in a transdisciplinary way the global challenges in which the planet is immersed in a period of social, climatic and economic uncertainty.

The session will bring artists, academics and scientists into dialogue through, on the one hand, the presentation of the issue 33 of the journal Artnodes, which traces a genealogy of media artivism; on the other, the presentation of Mark Farid's Invisible Voice project, a digital tool that reveals the power structures of corporations and brands in order to promote social action; and finally, an open conversation that invites to debate the power of the liminal spaces between transdisciplinary practices and narratives and activism when it comes to tackling climate challenges.

This conference is organised in the framework of the S+T+ARTS in the City project, a partnership between six European S+T+ARTS Regional Centres of which HacTe is a member. The S+T+ARTS programme is an initiative funded by the European Commission that aims to stimulate cross-innovation between the arts, sciences and technologies. The S+T+ARTS in the City project is supported by the Generalitat de Catalunya.