OSINT as artistic and legal tool for restistance

  • Discussion
  • Cinema
  • Friday 22.05 — 11:50 - 13:05

This panel brings artistic and investigative perspectives on OSINT into dialogue with its real-world practice. Focusing on open-source investigation as a form of proving and exposing accountabillity in contexts of ongoing violence, it explores OSINT as legal and artistic evidence.

Alexandre Alaphilippe

EU DisinfoLab

Alexandre Alaphilippe is the Executive director and co-founder of the EU DisinfoLab. Since 2017, he has coordinated work on some of the organisation’s largest investigations into Information Operations linked to Russia, India and China. In 2022, he led the exposure of Doppelganger, which has been labeled as one of the largest information operation from Russia in the past years. He is a member of a number of working groups in Brussels linked to platform regulation and hybrid threats, where he emphasises the role of civil society in maintaining democratic values. He has published papers for the Brookings Institution and his work has been featured on CNN, BBC, Le Monde and Politico. 

Mark Cinkevich (Remote Speaker)

Mark Cinkevich is a Belarusian researcher and artist whose work explores how infrastructures and visual technologies organize power. Focusing primarily on post-Soviet social and infrastructural landscapes, he examines how surveillance, logistics, and extraction shape environments of control. In his artistic practice, he is interested in critical and speculative aspects of art that operate at the intersection of fact and fiction. His projects have been presented internationally, including at transmediale (Berlin), the London Film Festival, Ars Electronica (Linz), Lithuanian National Gallery of Art (Vilnius), and Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art (Ljubljana) among others. 

Rachel Winny

CIR Center for information resilience

Rachel Winny is Technical Director at the Centre for Information Resilience, where she serves as a senior technical expert specialising in ethical standards for open-source investigations and responses to information disorder, as well organisational lead for conflict and gender sensitivity and safeguarding. She is an accredited conflict specialist and has led policy and programme delivery in fragile and conflict affected states for the UK and other allied Governments, focusing on conflict analysis and conflict-sensitive responses, as well as issues related to violent extremism and terrorism.

Tatsiana  Ashurkevich

Tatsiana Ashurkevich is a Belarusian investigative journalist and political analyst based in London. Her work focuses on disinformation and authoritarian influence networks. 

She has filed reports from Ukraine, covering the war with Russia, and has investigated the propaganda ecosystem, the migration crisis, and the use of children in military-related industries. 

Ashurkevich has contributed to Politico, The Guardian, and Tagesspiegel. Ashurkevich currently works with Bulgarian investigative journalist Christo Grozev.