The project Ghost Platform cultivated a network of artists, researchers and workers to investigate the invisibilization of human labour in contemporary logistics. Using a custom software for secure collaboration, participants generated audio and video materials in response to the rising inequality, political repression, and ecological impact enabled by these systems.
Results shared with academic and artistic publics focused on hidden networks of extraction and exploitation as well as grassroots models for organizing and imagining alternatives. The purpose of this communication project is to transmit results back to relevant sites in four countries, targeting publics in key localities for the research. Engaging a curator with research communication expertise, four exhibitions with linked public discussion programs and digital toolkits will open between April 2026 and March 2027 in Sweden, Italy, Spain and the UK.
A focus on local communities and worker populations directly impacted by the rapid expansion of logistics and data infrastructures aims at fostering public debates on the frontlines of a series of potential social, political, ecological and humanitarian crises. The broader relevance traverses an entanglement of deeply urgent topics: AI and the environment, platform labour and worker health, corporate accountability and Big Tech, supply chain activism, understanding the logistics of warfare, and the restoration of public trust via intersectional cultural spaces.
