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A15 Your Shadow Will Not Erase Me

Format: Exhibition and interactive installation; Supporting events: panel discussion, workshop and a day of curated performance

Preferred time: Mid-June through end of August 2025

Your Shadow Will Not Erase Me is an exhibition and interactive installation exploring the impact of censorship bias on social media, supported by a workshop, panel discussion, and performance event. We are a working group of sex workers, artists, activists, LGBTQI+ individuals, and researchers; communities disproportionately affected by corporate censorship and state surveillance. From this vantage point we examine digital rights, AI, and censorship highlighting power disparities between social media conglomerates and the wider user base. We propose alternative futures through interactive engagement, targeting both informed and broader audiences to the discussion of digital rights and censorship. A non-traditional mode of curation where the works are selected by relevant organisations such as The Black Sex Workers Collective and Der BesD e.V., conceptualises the project as a platform for diverse marginalised voices.
The exhibition is divided into three parts: „The Shadowland“ displays physically 9 censored online posts from a growing archive, from art to educational with creator commentary. ”The Algorithm“ section exposes workings of AI and algorithms through an interactive software that allows users to categorise and describe the aforementioned censored works. „Substate Illumination“ re-presents originally censored works with the constantly updating public and AI feedback projected over them, illuminating the uncanny nature of machine interpretation.
The workshop provides advice on anonymity and an overview of AI and algorithm control mechanisms. The panel discussion invites experts to discuss censorship, biases, and legal frameworks in Germany and Europe. The performance event artists are invited to reflect on the idea of the ‘substate under digital domination’: the state of having to submit to corporate guidelines while retaining a sense of ownership and control.