In a world shaped by powerful digital systems, how can we reclaim a sense of agency—and what role should art play in that effort? This panel brings together contributors from the CODE network and beyond to explore how creative, critical, and research-based practices can help us push back against the dominance of digital platforms.

We’ll focus on why it’s essential to approach digital challenges—such as surveillance, loss of privacy, algorithmic injustice, and shrinking digital rights—through interdisciplinary collaboration. We’ll also ask what makes working across fields like art, law, technology, and activism so difficult in practice, even when it’s widely encouraged in theory.

Together, we’ll explore how artistic and imaginative work can open up new ways of understanding and resisting digital systems—and why that work deserves to stand alongside legal, technical, and scientific approaches.