Citizen J is an art-as-activism project that invites UTS students to collaborate on the creation of automated “bots” mimicking mainstream media services to highlight their subjectivity. The bots will infiltrate the internet to highlight questions around truth, influence and subjectivity. Citizen J will be produced collaboratively with UTS students. All are welcome to attend (it’s free!) but registration is essential.

The project will take place over the course of three half-day workshops at UTS Central in the Autumn Session on Wednesday 23 February, Wednesday 2 March and Wednesday 9 March 2022. Each session will cover new ground - the first a deep dive into analysing the media landscape and the forces that shape its voice, the second will see participants writing computer scripts to build the bots and experiment with their form and in the third we'll refine the bots and release them into the wilds of the internet.

You can join all three sessions or just one, and no prior experience of art making, activism, media analysis or coding necessary!

About the artists

Make or Break is a collaboration between artists Connie Anthes and Rebecca Gallo, based in Sydney, Australia on unceded Gadigal and Darug lands. Make or Break has worked across gallery, institution, festival and community contexts to produce a range of process-based projects that are co-authored with the communities with which they intersect.