Compliance as Material

On the morning of Saturday 14 November a GPS device of RYBN’s making leads twenty walkers through Luxembourg City, from one address in the ICIJ offshore leaks to the next. In the afternoon four people meet at Casino Luxembourg: a legal scholar on AI in migration management and its risks for human rights, the artists behind the device on what art can do with offshore finance, a critic on the lineage of artists who made work out of forms, stamps and permits, and the founder of a Berlin lab where whistle­blow­ers, journalists and artists share a stage, on art as evidence, what art and whistle­blow­ing have in common. The thread is in the title: take the rules as written, follow them to the letter, and look at what they produce.

Niovi Vavoula 

Niovi Vavoula is Associate Professor and Chair in Cyber Policy at the University of Luxembourg (Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance). Her research concerns the human rights and rule of law challenges raised by new tech­nolo­gies in migration and law enforcement, in particular privacy and data protection in the dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion of EU immigration control. She is the author of Immigration and Privacy in the Law of the European Union: The Case of Information Systems(Brill Nijhoff, 2022) and advises EU insti­tu­tions and agencies.

Talk: AI in Migration Management: Oppor­tu­ni­ties and Risks for Human Rights

This talk will provide an overview of the current state of play regarding the application of AI-reliant systems to one of the most con­tro­ver­sial fields of law, migration management. The talk will then explain the benefits of algo­rith­mi­sa­tion of this field followed by taking stock of the key human rights concerns par­tic­u­lar­ly regarding non-dis­crim­i­na­tion and the right to an effective legal remedy.

RYBN

RYBN​.ORG (1999) is an artist collective based in Paris, conducting extradis­ci­pli­nary inves­ti­ga­tions on complex systems and phenomena within the realms of economics and cybernetics: high-frequency trading, financial algorithms, flash crashes and market infra­struc­tures, tax avoidance schemes and offshore financial circuits, artificial artificial intel­li­gence and digital labor, nudging and the exploit of cognitive biases. In the morning, their Offshore Tour Operator opens the day.

Régine Debatty

Régine Debatty is a curator, art critic and the founder of the award-winning blog we​-make​-money​-not​-art​.com. Since 2004, she has been writing and lecturing inter­na­tion­al­ly about the way artists, hackers and designers use science and technology as a medium for critical discussion.

Talk: Protocols of Exposure

Tatiana Bazzichelli 

Tatiana Bazzichelli is the founder and director of Disruption Network Lab, a Berlin-based nonprofit organ­i­sa­tion that focuses on whistle­blow­ing, social justice and digital culture. She holds a PhD in Information and Media Studies and has published several books, including Whistle­blow­ing for Change (2021) and Networked Disruption (2013).

Talk: Art as Evidence: Networking Art, Technology & Whistleblowing

This talk combines the practice of whistle­blow­ing with artistic inter­ven­tions that share the common aim of creating evidence. Drawing on over a decade of testimonies at the Disruption Network Lab, Tatiana Bazzichelli will examine how whistle­blow­ers themselves help to expose systems of power, and to what extent data leaks become a form of resistance. The concept of ​“art as evidence”, developed with Laura Poitras in 2013, emerges from this analysis where artistic method­olo­gies intersect with inves­tiga­tive journalism, legal frameworks and critical technology, to expose injustices that depend on opacity and insti­tu­tion­al silence. Central to this work is the creation of networks of trust: mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary col­lab­o­ra­tions that bring together artists, journalists, lawyers, technical experts, and whistle­blow­ers. These networks redesign the evidentiary conditions under which wrongdoing becomes visible. Through examples ranging from art and technology, as well as leaking and whistle­blow­ing, Bazzichelli will discuss how artistic practices can be used to investigate, expose and inform about the world we live in.

Françoise Poos

Françoise Poos is Artistic and Scientific Director of Elektron. She holds a PhD in Visual Culture. She was Programme Director for Esch2022, European Capital of Culture, and is currently Chair of the Board of the Centre Culturel de Rencontre Abbaye de Neumünster, whose mission is to foster inter­cul­tur­al dialogue and support diversity through the arts. She has also served as Chair of the Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg for con­tem­po­rary art since 2004.

The book Public Record, with a text by Régine Debatty, will be available for purchase at the bookshop.

Pascal Piron as part of Luxembourg Art Week 2026, off-site programme

Ministère de la Culture · Fondation Indépen­dance · University of Luxembourg – Espace Cultures

Casino Luxembourg — forum d’art con­tem­po­rain · Elektron