How are digital technologies influencing our response to political moments and shaping democracy?
This week we launch a new three-part online series bringing together artists, researchers, and journalists to explore technology and democracy. Chaired by artist and human rights researcher Caroline Sinders, the conversations will expand on The Last X Years, Jay Bernard’s digital project reflecting on the 2016 EU referendum.
Between 2021–2024, Bernard travelled across the UK gathering testimonies that, interwoven with AI-selected historical headlines, became an evolving broadcast exploring the visible and invisible forces shaping our political and emotional lives.
Building on these themes, the series will examine how digital technologies influence democratic outcomes, amplify emotion, and challenge regulatory frameworks. Echoing Bernard’s central proposition, the conversations consider how we are both shaped by—and complicit in shaping—the digital systems that define contemporary democracy.
Topics include:
- Digital technologies and democracy
- The politics of emotion in the digital age
- Regulating the digital sphere
Broadcast online between 2-9 March 2026.
