Tatiana Bazzichelli

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Tatiana Bazzichelli is a researcher, networker and curator, working in the field of hacktivism and network culture. She is Postdoc researcher at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, as part of the Innovation Incubator/Centre for Digital Cultures, and the Institute for Culture and Aesthetic Digital Media, Faculty of Cultural Studies, where she works within the research framework and practice-based project “transmedial culture”. She received a Ph.D. in Information and Media Studies at Aarhus University (2011), researching 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.

Since 2011 she is a programme curator at the transmediale festival in Berlin, where she develops the “resource transmedial culture berlin”, an ongoing distributed project of networking and research within the transmediale festival. She has been active in the Italian hacker community since the end of the ’90s and is the initiator of the AHA:Activism-Hacking-Artivism project which won the Honorary Mention for digital communities at Ars Electronica (2007). She wrote the book Networking: The Net as Artwork (Costa & Nolan, 2006/DARC, 2008), about the history of Italian hacktivism and net culture. From 2003 to 2008 she worked as a journalist and curator organizing several exhibitions and events on media art and hacktivism, such as Sousveillance (Aarhus, 2009), HACK.Fem.EAST (Berlin, 2008), HackMIT! (Berlin, 2007), CUM2CUT (Berlin, 2006-2008), Hack.it.art (Berlin 2005), Art on the Net in Italy (Berlin 2005), MediaDemocracy and Telestreet (Munich, 2004).