Tatiana Bazzichelli is the artistic director and founder of the Disruption Network Lab. Former programme curator at transmediale festival in Berlin from 2011 to 2014, she developed the year-round ‘reSource transmedial culture berlin’ project and curated several conference events. She combined her work of curating and research at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg as Post-Doctoral researcher in the Centre for Digital Cultures from 2012 to 2014. In 2016-2017 she was Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Cultural Practice at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (FHP), where she taught classes about art, hacktivism and whistleblowing. In 2011, she received a PhD degree in Information and Media Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Aarhus University in Denmark, writing the book Networked Disruption: Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social Networking (DARC Press, Aarhus University, 2013), which was also the result of her 2009 visiting scholarship at the H-STAR, the Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute of Stanford University. Additionally, she wrote the book Networking: The Net as Artwork (Costa & Nolan, Milan, 2006 /DARC Press, Aarhus University, 2008), and co-edited Disrupting Business: Art and Activism in Times of Financial Crisis (Autonomedia, New York, 2013). Active in the Italian hacker scene since the ’90s, her networking art project "AHA: Activism-Hacking Artivism" won the honorary mention for digital communities at Ars Electronica 2007. She curated several exhibitions, such as SAMIZDATA (2015-2016), Networked Disruption (2015), HACK.Fem.EAST (2008), HACKmit! (2007) and Hack.it.art (2005) in Berlin, Rome, and other European cities. She was awarded the 2014 “Italian of the Year” by the Comites of Berlin, in cooperation with the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute.
