AES-451 documents how censorship and repression are changing in the digital age.
The project brings together filmed interviews, source material and research on the ways writers, journalists, artists, activists and communities are monitored, silenced or forced into exile. It looks at both national repression and the forms of pressure that follow people across borders: surveillance, online harassment, smear campaigns, hacking, platform control, family pressure and threats against people in exile.
Our aim is to make these methods visible. By connecting personal testimony with wider research, AES-451 helps show how digital repression works, who it affects, and how people continue to write, publish, organise and resist.
