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Networked Disruption
Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social Networking

by Tatiana Bazzichelli
Through its theoretical discussion on art and hacktivism, the book maps out a new contradictory space for political criticism: Networked Disruption.
DARC PRESS (Aarhus University), Denmark, 2013.

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The book discusses a new perspective on political and social criticism. It asks what are the conditions for hacking and art after the development of social networks and how can social networking be seen to build on and incorporate artistic practices from the earlier decades of digital and network culture.
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Disrupting Business
Art & Activism in Times of Financial Crisis

Edited by Tatiana Bazzichelli & Geoff Cox
Publisher: Autonomedia, New York, 2013 – Data Browser 05.

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Disrupting Business explores some of the interconnections between art, activism and the business concept of disruptive innovation. With a backdrop of the crisis in financial capitalism and austerity cuts in the cultural sphere, the idea is to focus on potential art strategies in relation to a broken economy.

This book is concerned broadly with business as material for reinvention, including critical writing and examples of art/activist projects. Read more

Networking. The Net as Artwork

by Tatiana Bazzichelli
Preface by Derrick De Kerckhove. Afterward by Simonetta Fadda

A reconstruction of the history of artistic networking in Italy and of the Italian hacker community from the 1980s to date.
DARC PRESS (Aarhus University), Denmark, 2008.

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Networking means to create nets of relations. The book is a first tentative reconstruction of the history of artistic networking in Italy, through an analysis of media and art projects which during the past twenty years have given way to a creative, shared and aware use of technologies, contributing to the creation of Italian hacker communities.
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Networking. La rete come arte

by Tatiana Bazzichelli
Prefazione di Derrick De Kerckhove
Postfazione di Simonetta Fadda

Una ricostruzione della storia del networking artistico in Italia e della comunità hacker italiana dagli anni ottanta. Pubblicato da: Costa & Nolan, Milano, Italia, 2006.

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Fare network significa creare reti di relazione. Il primo tentativo di ricostruzione della storia del networking artistico in Italia. Un’analisi sull’uso creativo e condiviso delle tecnologie, dal video al computer e sulla formazione di una comunità hacker italiana. Una riflessione sul ruolo dell’artista che si fa networker, ricollegandosi alle neoavanguardie degli anni Sessanta.
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