DATA BREACH

2026 Exhibition Open

Visit and learn what you can do to get involved -  

protect your privacy and community.

Surveillance technologies have woven themselves into our streets, devices, and shared spaces — by design. 

This exhibition pulls them into view, examining how government authorities have leveraged these systems not for public safety, but for profit-driven agendas that routinely violate the rights of the communities they claim to protect.

Cafe and Gallery Hours: 
7 am - 4 pm, Mon - Saturday

The AjA Project Fridge Art Space
5591 University Ave, San Diego, CA 92105

Power Shift - Arts and Advocacy from City Heights

June 25th 5-8pm
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla

Join us for a fundraiser “Power Shift: Arts + Advocacy From City Heights” at the (Hosting with our City Heights partners PANA and Mid City CAN)

Experience AjA’s latest art projects, see Alicia Key’s collection, hear directly from our Executive Directors, and learn how our organizations are making an impact in the community. Enjoy live spoken word performances, complimentary wine, beer, soda, delicious appetizers, a lively atmosphere and stunning oceanfront views!

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Who is AjA?

The AjA Project is a compassionate space for young people, activists, visual artists and educators to engage critically with issues that affect our community and realize our collective liberation through participatory storytelling and the documentary arts.

Founded in 2000, The AjA Project is an acronym for the phrase Autosuficiencia Junto con Apoyo, meaning “supporting self-sufficiency.”

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DATA BREACH A look back at the systems watching you. Surveillance is designed to be invisible; embedded so seamlessly into our streets, devices, and shared spaces that we stop noticing it entirely. This exhibition asks us to look again. The AJA Pr
Calling on artists, activists, writers, and poets ; and The AjA Project x Borderclick @borderclick community! Join WHO WATCHES WHO! COUNTERSURVEILLANCE Fellowship to learn how surveillance policies + technologies impact our communities, then co-crea
A bit of a delayed news -BUT 🎉🎉 We got the grant!!! Research shows that arts and nature experiencessupport mental, physical, and social well-being, but this doesn't work when communities can't access them. We’re honored to be one of the 50 no
To all photographers (age 18 -30) with lived experience of immigration, and have a story to tell! Apply to AJA's Jounrey Documentary Photo Essay Fellowship in partnership with San Diego Museum of Art's MOPA. Come and share your JOURNEY story, take pa
We are hiring! Arts & Advocacy Teaching Artist to lead our Countersurveillance fellowship program! Teach, engage and work with the selected fellows and create works to support the ongoing movement against the unaccountable use of surveillance cam
We are pleased to announce our participation as a host institution for the ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship Program@ACLS1919, supported by the Mellon Foundation. In 2026, the program will place recent humanities PhDs in two-year positions with organizati
This past week our Counter Surveillance fellows presented their final project of “Who Watches Who?” on the consequences of surveillance technology on our safety and wellbeing. You can find this evoking “mind map” on @panasandi
Come join us on Jan 30th, 2026 for volunteer canvassing for the “Ground Up” Arts in Parks project led by @theajaproject and @midcitycan We’ll be gathering community input to implement youth-led designs for Officer Jeremy Henwoods Pa
Join us TODAY at 4pm for a showcase of the students’ mural from the Counter Surveillance project, followed by a hands-on Riso poster making workshop! Recently, our CounterSurveillance fellows went on a field trip to the border to take pic
Today at December 9th at 2pm, SD city will vote on whether to keep the Flock Automatic License Plate Reader system in the city. Flock is a company known to breach data by passing them to ICE, and cannot be trusted. This past week, we joined other

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