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Bio
Tatiana Bazzichelli (IT/DE)
Tatiana Bazzichelli is a researcher, networker and curator, working in the field of hacktivism and net culture. She is part of the transmediale festival team in Berlin, where she develops the reSource transmedial culture berlin, an ongoing distributed project of networking and research within the transmediale festival. She is Post-Doc researcher at the Innovation Incubator (Digital Media Center) of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg (DE), and received a Ph.D. in Information and Media Studies from Aarhus University (DK)At Aarhus University she has been doing research on the intersections between art, hacker culture and network economy, focusing on disruptive art practices in the business of social media. In 2009 she was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, researching hacker culture and disruptive business in San Francisco and the Silicon Valley.
She has been active in the Italian hacker community since the end of the ’90s and is the founder AHA:Activism-Hacking-Artivism project (www.ecn.org/aha), which won the Honorary Mention for digital communities at Ars Electronica (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 (Costa & Nolan, 2006/DARC, 2008), about the evolution of the Italian hacktivism and net culture from the 1980s until today (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).
She grew up in Rome and moved to Berlin in 2003. After three years in Denmark, she is back in Berlin since September 2011.
tati [ at ] trick . ca
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