Tatiana Bazzichelli (IT/DK)

Tatiana Bazzichelli is a communication sociologist, researching on network culture, hacktivism and net art. She is Ph.D. Scholar at the Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University (DK) and Visiting Researcher at the Stanford Humanities Lab, Stanford University (California). In 2001, she founded the networking project AHA:Activism-Hacking-Artivism (www.ecn.org/aha), which won the Honorary Mention for the Digital Communities category at the Ars Electronica Festival (Linz, 2007). In 2002, she initiated the aha.list, the most popular in Italian art and hacktivism according to Neural online.  She wrote the book Networking. The Net as Artwork published in English by the Digital Aesthetics Research Center, Aarhus, 2008 (www.networkingart.eu/english.html). From 2003 to 2008 she was a journalist and curator based in Berlin, Germany and she organized several exhibitions and conventions on media art and hacktivism, such as Sousveillance (Aarhus, 2009), HACK.Fem.EAST (www.hackfemeast.org, Berlin, 2008), HackMIT! (Berlin, 2007), CUM2CUT (www.cum,2cut.net, Berlin, 2006-2008), Hack.it.art (Berlin 2005), Art on the Net in Italy (Berlin 2005), MediaDemocracy and Telestreet (Munich, 2004), AHA (Rome, 2002), Hacker Art Lab (Perugia, 2000). Since 2008, she lives in Aarhus, Denmark.

www.tatianabazzichelli.com