AHA: Actitivism-Hacking-Artivism

A networking project founded in 2001 in Rome to promote art, hacking and activism on the Internet related to the Italian underground scene and the international net culture. AHA has contributed to the creation of a vast network of relations and practices through exhibitions, conferences, workshops and international meetings. In 2007, AHA project won the Honorary Mention for the category “Digital Communities” at the Ars Electronica Festival 07, Linz, Austria.  www.ecn.org/aha

aha@lists.ecn.org
Mailing-list on artistic activism and net culture

The mailing list aha@lists.ecn.org is a node of the AHA project. It is a collective networking platform to find and give information on activism, hacking and artivism. aha list encourages participants to think about art as an open network and provides the possibility of sharing ideas, creativity and projects. Active since December 2002, the mailing-list counts to date around 750 Italian and international subscribers. Since 2008, the AHA community organized national AHA events, in Turin/Share Festival (March 2008), in Venice/AHACamping, (S.A.L.E., October 2008), in Milan/AHAcktitude (Cantiere, November 2009), in Pisa (January 2011). The next national event is scheduled in the Spring 2011, at the Fine Art Academy of Carrara.
Mailing list: www.ecn.org/mailman/listinfo/aha.

Hack.Fem.EAST
Women, Technology and Networks in Eastern Europe

HACK.Fem.EAST was an exhibition and event about experimental and artistic practices of women artists and activists working in digital networks in Eastern Europe. Main topics were media, art and hacking. Central idea was to involve women artists to develop independently their concept in the exhibition venue while developing the network formed by all the artists/activists participating in the project. The exhibition was curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli and Gaia Novati at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/ Bethanien, Berlin (10 May-22 June 2008). Supported by: Hauptstadt Kulturfonds Berlin.
www.hackfemeast.org

CUM2CUT. Indie-Porn-Short-Film Festival

The CUM2CUT Indie-Porn-Short-Film Festival is an independent pornography competition. It is a three day marathon in which participants are invited to realize a short film. It took place in Berlin within the Berlin Porn Film Festival (2006-2008) and it is now traveling as a nomadic entity. CUM2CUT is a networking platform where people can address the topic of pornography without being marginalized. The festival is promoted and organized by Tatiana Bazzichelli and Gaia Novati. www.cum2cut.net

Sousveillance. The Art of Inverse Surveillance

A conference on the topic of surveillance, privacy and control of information, analyzing artistic and political strategies to produce tactical zones of interventions, both in the urban space and on the net. Organized at Aarhus University and in the city of Aarhus in Denmark (8-9 February 2009) by Tatiana Bazzichelli and Lars Bo Løfgreen. Promoted by DUL – Digital Urban Living and DARC, Digital Aesthetics Research Centre of Aarhus University.
www.digitalurbanliving.dk/sousveillance

Hack.it.art – Hacktivism in the Context of Art and Media in Italy

Hack.it.art was an exhibition and event about hacktivism in Italy, presenting an alternative and independent way of producing information, through videos, computers and networks. The exhibition showed a widespread phenomenon of networking and presented to the German public the multitude of Italian media and net activism. It included three conferences and workshops on hacktivism, telestreets and cyberfeminism. From January 15th to February 27th, 2005, at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany. Supported by the Italian Cultural Institute of Berlin, the Bundeszentrale fuer politische Bildung, and in partnership with Transmediale festival and Club Transmediale. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli and Alexandra Weltz.
http://www.ecn.org/aha/English/hackit_art.htm

HackMit! – Medien und Kunst zum Leben

HACK MIT! event at MACHmit! Museum fuer Kinder was an exhibition and event about art and new media, with a particular focus on the concept of hacking. Idea was to bring children close to technologies, such as computers, videos, televisions, and at the same time associate those technologies to the art field, from the classical Avant-gardes (i.e. Surrealism, Dadaism, Futurism) to the present. From 1 may to 26 august 2007, MACHmit Museum fuer Kinder, Berlin. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. Supported by: Hauptstadt Kulturfonds Berlin.
Hackmit! website

MediaDemocracy and Telestreet. Networking Free TV

The event Media Democracy and Telestreet, took place in Munich in the Muffathalle, providing an insight into the free and independent communication networks in Italy, opposing to media monopoly. The event reflected on the role of media art in Italy and explored the means of artistic activism, involving various exponents of the Italian Telestreet and hacktivism networks. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli and Alexandra Weltz. Supported by: Bundeszentrale fuer politische Bildung/bpb, 14-16 July, 2004.

http://www.ecn.org/aha/English/telestreets.htm

Other projects by Tatiana Bazzichelli