[spectre] TECHNOVIOLENCE: Confronting Systematic Injustice, Sept 19–21, Berlin

[Tatiana Bazzichelli]

Dear Spectre List,

I would like to invite you to our next conference, Technoviolence: 
Confronting Systematic Injustice, happening on Sept 19–21 2025 at Studio 
1, Kunstquartier Bethanien (Berlin) and on streaming:
https://www.disruptionlab.org/technoviolence

TECHNOVIOLENCE brings whistleblowers, artists, journalists and 
technologists together to expose how war surveillance, migration 
management and state oppression are shaped by invisible, digital forces. 
Featuring revealing insights from former FBI agent and whistleblower 
Terry Albury and tech policy advocate Ifeoma Ozoma, the conference 
investigates the role of AI, border technologies, algorithmic policing, 
and digital fascism in deepening global injustices. This event explores 
how artistic resistance and investigative practice can generate new 
forms of evidence, visibility, and accountability.

# PROGRAMME

## Fri 19.9

KEYNOTE · 16:40–18:00
Breaking the Code of Silence: From Whistleblowing to Systemic Change in Tech

Ifeoma Ozoma, Director of Technology Policy at the Kapor Centre and 
co-sponsor of California’s Silenced No More Act, delivers a powerful 
keynote on how legal tools like nondisclosure agreements enable 
discrimination and silence tech workers. Known for blowing the whistle 
on racism and sexism at Pinterest, Ozoma has since transformed personal 
resistance into systemic reform. Her keynote unveils how tech 
corporations weaponise secrecy and how workers can fight back through 
legislative action, financial leverage and collective organising.
https://www.disruptionlab.org/technoviolence#breaking-the-code

18:30–18:45 · On Platform Brutality: A Preliminary Book Launch

Geert Lovink will present his new book, Platform Brutality, coming out 
late September (Valiz, 2025). It is third part of a triptych after the 
books Sad by Design (2019) and Stuck on the Platform (2022). After 
decade of docile facilitation and sneaky extractivism Silicon Valley is 
now showing its ugly face. This is not only initiated by Trump II but 
also coincides with the overall stagnation and regression in terms of 
social media usage. Platform Brutality is a scathing diagnosis of our 
digital condition in the aftermath of COVID, grappling with a world 
overwhelmed by platform decay, social media addiction, and a psychic toll.
https://www.disruptionlab.org/technoviolence#platform-brutality

PANEL · 18:45–20:45 · Dismantling the Algorithmic Gaze

Heba Y. Amin, Ghost Agency co-founders Anni Garza and Gro Sarauw, and 
activist Jennifer Kamau analyse how forms of algorithmic and 
technological control are emerging at borders, in militarised contexts 
and in urban environments, spanning examples from Germany to Mexico and 
North Africa. The panel also discusses how we can imagine forms of 
resistance and empowerment based on social justice, using opacity as a 
means of resistance, as well as technological tools and collective 
action to counter epidemic violence. Moderated by Geert Lovink.
https://www.disruptionlab.org/technoviolence#dismantling

## Sat 20.9

PANEL · 16:00-18:15
Exploited, Extracted, Erased: The Global Logic of Big Tech

Rima Sghaier, Sarah Ciston, Lya Cuéllar and Safa Ghnaim, trace the 
systemic and extractive logic of Big Tech, examining how today’s digital 
infrastructures are weaponised against vulnerable communities. Topics 
include AI systems accelerating warfare, targeting campaigns on social 
media, erasing Palestinian voices, building techno-colonialist utopias 
in Central America and exploiting workers in the Democratic Republic of 
the Congo. Speakers unpack the intersections between digital repression, 
xenophobia, and platform complicity, while offering critical tools for 
understanding and resisting technoviolence in its many forms. Moderated 
by Nil Uzun.
https://www.disruptionlab.org/technoviolence#exploited

KEYNOTE · 18:45–20:30
Secrecy, Surveillance & Grassroots Resistance

With FBI Whistleblower Terry Albury & investigative Journalist Lynzy 
Billing.
Terry Albury, a former FBI counterterrorism agent whose leaks revealed 
systemic racial profiling and surveillance tactics, will speak publicly 
outside of the U.S. for the first time. Lynzy Billing a British 
photojournalist and filmmaker of Afghan-Pakistani origins whose 
Emmy-winning animated documentary "The Night Doctrine" exposes the human 
toll of CIA-backed night raids in Afghanistan, offers an equally 
compelling contrasting lens.
They map the intersection of secrecy, state violence, and grassroots 
work, showing how insider courage and deeply personal reporting can 
disrupt entrenched systems of digital and real-world oppression.
https://www.disruptionlab.org/technoviolence#secrecy

## Sun 21.9

WORKSHOP · 14:00–17:00
Weaving Resistance in the Age of Digi-tal Fascism & Tech Oligarchy

Digital rights advocate Rima Sghaier leads a hands-on workshop 
confronting digital fascism and platform-enabled repression. 
Participants will trace online harassment campaigns, especially in the 
SWANA region, and explore how Big Tech fuels technoviolence against 
marginalised groups. Centering those most excluded by digital systems, 
the session offers tools to reclaim visibility and imagine collective 
resistance.
https://www.disruptionlab.org/technoviolence#workshop

TICKETS:
https://tickets.disruptionlab.org/technoviolence/

More info:
https://www.disruptionlab.org/technoviolence
-- 
Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director
Disruption Network Lab
https://www.disruptionlab.org/
E-mail for personal messages: tbazz(at)disruptionlab.org
Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz
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