Formed in 2019, The Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and Action is a public, participatory community-led digital archive of art and activism inspired, influenced, or affected by forced displacement. The Amplification Project offers a platform for artists, activists, and other cultural producers to document, preserve, and share work in any medium that narrates or contemplates lived or observed experiences of exile, crossing borders, seeking asylum, detention and refugee camps, and refugeehood. The Amplification Project further seeks to:

• intervene in anti-refugee and xenophobic rhetoric and contest negative stories about asylum-seekers and refugees
• challenge and disrupt dehumanizing and depersonalizing media and political representations of refugees and essentializing accounts of refugeeness by mainstream humanitarian organizations
• use archiving to raise awareness about inequities and injustices imposed on asylum seekers and refugees
• work hand-in-hand with and connect local, national, and transnational art practices, activist projects, and conversations centered on forced migration issues
• nurture community-led politico-aesthetic archival practices that explore what kinds of solidarity building and collective action archives can do in support of refugees

Co-founded and directed by R3 postdoctoral scholar Kathy Carbone and an international group of artists, curators, and activists: Biba Sheikh, Vukašin Nedeljković, Elizabeth Shoshany Anderson, and Pinar Öğrenci, The Amplification Project launched its archive in mid-2020. Since then, 14 artists worldwide have submitted over 100+ photographs, digital images of visual artwork, photo- and illustrated narratives, and videos.