Wes Damen

The WODC, the Research and Data Centre of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security, performs research using large and highly sensitive datasets, including criminal records, police data, asylum information and other special categories of personal data. As a result, the organisation carries out roughly fifty Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) each year to support GDPR compliance. Until recently, this process relied heavily on manually completed Word documents, with many recurring steps repeated from scratch for every assessment. I developed the DPIA Invulhulp to automate these repetitive elements and guide researchers through the process more consistently. The tool helps streamline compliance with the GDPR and the Ministry’s internal privacy and data-protection requirements.

• Year 2026

• Type LegalTech

• Keywords legal tech, govtech, Automating compliance, Data protection, DPIA

The artists Gary Farrelly and Chris Dreier are the creative forces behind the artistic self-institutionalisation of OJAI. I performed the part of The Lawyer, officiating the legal and administrative affairs involved in the 10th birthday of the OJAI.

• Year 2026

• Type Performance

• Language EN, NL, FR

• Keywords Creative coding, Python, MAX, Art & Culture

There once was a lovely collective or artists, designers, and researchers called MAX. The idea behind the name MAX, was that it could be various genders (according to our female French designers), and that it be an abbreviation of all kinds of things. This interdisciplinary, multi-gendered, poly-functionality became a founding idea of the MAX website. I built a MAX Name Generator using the letters M - A - X are the building blocks of an ever changing title of the collective. The website we designed and built is here: www.max.brussels. The design team was Carl Haasse, Giulio Galli, Flo Fromager and myself.

• Year 2021-2026

• Type Front-end

• Language EN, NL, FR

• Keywords Creative coding, Python, MAX, Art & Culture