Tatiana Bazzichelli
Founding Artistic Director & Curator Disruption Network Lab e. V. Board
Tatiana Bazzichelli is the founder, artistic director, curator, and board member of the Disruption Network Lab. She has been appointed jury member for the Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Capital Cultural Fund) by the German Federal Government and Berlin for the funding years 2019-2020. She was festival curator at transmediale from 2011 to 2014, where she also developed the ‘reSource transmedial culture berlin’, the year-round cultural network programme of the festival. Bazzichelli’s work at transmediale was the focus of her 2012-2014 post-doctoral research at the Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University of Lüneburg. She received a PhD degree in Information and Media Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Aarhus University in 2011. Her PhD research, Networked Disruption: Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social Networking (DARC Press, 2013), was the result of her 2009 visiting scholarship at the H-STAR Institute of Stanford University. She wrote the book Networking: The Net as Artwork (Costa & Nolan, 2006; DARC Press, 2008), and co-edited Disrupting Business: Art and Activism in Times of Financial Crisis (Autonomedia, 2013). She has taught classes and given lectures about whistleblowing, hacktivism, art and digital culture in many institutions, including the Department of Cultural Practice at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (FHP) as Visiting Lecturer in 2016-2017. She curated the exhibitions SAMIZDATA (NOME Gallery, 2015), Networked Disruption (Škuc Gallery, 2015), HACK.Fem.EAST (Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien, 2008), HACKmit! (MACHmit! Museum, 2007) and Hack.it.art (Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien, 2005). Active in the Italian hacker scene since the ’90s, her networking project AHA:Activism-Hacking Artivism won the honorary mention for Digital Communities at Ars Electronica 2007. Awarded the 2014 “Italian of the Year” by the Italian Embassy, Italian Cultural Institute, and ComItEs of Berlin, she has been living in Berlin since 2003.
