Website: https://www.theamplificationproject.org/
Principal Investigator(s): Kathy Carbone, Information Studies
The Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and Action is an international participatory action research endeavor to create a community-based participatory digital archive that will document, preserve, connect, and raise the visibility of contemporary artwork and activist projects inspired, influenced, or affected by forced migration. The Amplification Project seeks to be a ‘living archive’—an open platform and tool for artists and activists to preserve and share their work and for people to engage in dialogue about forced migration and refugeehood. It also seeks to support and work hand-in-hand with new artistic, activist, and scholarly projects to foster a greater understanding of and raise political and social consciousness about forced migration and its effects on societies, cultures, and lives. Finally, The Amplification Project further aims to intervene in anti-refugee and xenophobic rhetoric, offer counterpoints to the often dehumanized visual representation of refugees in the media, and fill a gap in the historical record, as few mainstream archives are documenting and preserving art and activist productions related to forced migration.