UPCOMING EVENTS
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UPCOMING: UNESCO "Artistic Freedom and Creativity: Navigating the Age of AI in a Volatile World"
DDA’s Emma Shapiro joins a UNESCO panel event as part of UNESCO World Press Freedom Day
May 6, 2025 | Brussels
PAST EVENTS
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PAST: Decentraland Fashion Week: The Banners We Wear
DDA’s Emma Shapiro represented DDA as a jury member and keynote panelist for Metaverse Fashion Week
April 9, 2025 | Decentraland
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PAST: Social Media & Art Censorship
with Saper Law & Lawyers for the Creative Arts
April 3, 2025 | online
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PAST: DDA at RightsCon!
Don’t Delete Art: Why Content Moderation much account for Artistic Context
Feb 26, 2025 | online
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PAST: DDA x SHEROES: Sheroes Thursdays - Women Activist Artists on Social Media Censorship
A conversation with SHEROES and DDA about safer spaces for women artists and where to find them
Feb 6, 2025 | online
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Restrictions on the Risqué: Censorship & Sexual Freedom in 2024
PAST: DDA joins EFF, FSC, and Woodhull Freedom Foundation to review the past year in censorship
Dec 23, 2024 | online
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PAST: Panopticon Effect
A talk about transgression and censorship in art, with DDA’s Emma Shapiro and artist Liza Shkirando - Presented by BONFIRE
Nov 20, 2024 | online
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PAST: Don't Delete Art: Is Social Media Beyond Our Control?
Live panel discussion, moderated by DDA’s Emma Shapiro, including panelist DDA Team Member Elizabeth Larison - Presented by Artists at Risk Connection and Art At A Time Like This as part of the series “Dangerous Art, Endangered Artists”
May 10, 2024 | in-person NYC
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PAST: Decentraland Wellness Week Keynote Panel: "Healthier Relationships with Social Media & Online Platforms"
Jan 24 2024 | online
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PAST: We Removed Your Post: Artistic Expression and the Fight Against Online Censorship
DDA’s Elizabeth Larison and Emma Shapiro join Woodhull Freedom Foundation to discuss the state of online art censorship.
Oct 24, 2025 | online
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PAST: KOSA Reddit AMA with FFTF, ACLU, EFF, CDT, and Sen. Ron Wyden
DDA joined advocates who support regulation of Big Tech but oppose the misguided Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), and similarly dangerous and unconstitutional bills like the EARN IT Act, Stop CSAM Act, Cooper Davis Act, and Protecting Kids On Social Media Act, in a Reddit AMA.
Sept 18, 2023 | online
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PAST: DDA Day Of Action
The DDA Day of Action was orchestrated as an extension of DDA's Manifesto Campaign.
June 15, 2023 | NYC
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PAST: RightsCon: Artists have Digital Rights, Too: SCP 2.0 and Advocating for Artistic Expression Online
This workshop session at RightsCon 2023 brought together artists and curators on the topic of the Santa Clara Principles 2.0 (SCP 2.0) and invited discussions on specific challenges that participants have faced regarding content moderation, with the goal of instigating engagement from these communities on subsequent SCP iterations, and information gathering.
June 6, 2023 | online
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PAST: ALN Event: Artist Censorship in the Digital World
Arts Letters & Numbers and Don’t Delete Art gathered for a live talk to discuss the pressing issue of artist censorship in the digital world.
March 6, 2023 | online
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PAST: World Ethical Data Forum | Block Mute Report: Navigating artistic freedom and censorship in digital spaces
DDA’s Emma Shapiro joined leading artist-activists to discuss online art censorship at the World Ethical Data Forum
Oct 26, 2022 | online
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PAST: Unit London: Navigating Sensitive Content Panel
In conjunction with Unit London’s Frieze Group Show, Sensitive Content, artist and DDA Editor at Large Emma Shapiro, whose work is in the exhibition, moderates a discussion on censorship in the arts with writers Gareth Harris (The Art Newspaper) and Farah Nayeri (The New York Times).
Sept 20, 2022 | London
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PAST: How to Avoid Being Censored On Instagram
Dina Brodsky, Savannah Spirit, and Spencer Tunick host a Zoom conversation to share advice on how to tag, contextualize, or modify your artwork so it is safe from removal.
June 2, 2021 | online