Christoffer Horlitz, Ayodamola Okunseinde, and Ella Hillström, independent artists in their own rights, are teaming up as the artist collective Anti-Customs Enforcement (ACE) to create Digital Borders. 

Christoffer Horlitz, Ayodamola Okunseinde, and Ella Hillström, independent artists in their own rights, are teaming up as the artist collective Anti-Customs Enforcement (ACE) to create Digital Borders. 

In this multidisciplinary course, students will confront the ways new technologies are changing border controls and the regulation of migration. These technologies include automated facial recognition, the usage of other biometric markers, the observing of digital presence and more.
Alongside harsher border controls, where artists are under scrutiny and increasingly restricted, an emerging body of artists are responding to the border through activism, performances and installations, as well as shaping collaborations in the digital realm.
We will discuss this in response to our current time: COVID-19, BLM, financial crises, student restrictions etc. We believe this class gives students the opportunity to process collectively what they are living through. The class will culminate in students’ own final multimedia project where they, as artists and investigators, respond to notions of digitized borders. Students are expected not only to engage their critical thinking skills with respect to the class topics, but also to design, build, and deploy creative responses.