Whistleblowing for Change · Panel at Dussmann
With Tatiana Bazzichelli. Frederik Obermaier. Robert Trafford. Moderated by Theresa Züger.
19:00 (Doors open 18:30)
Tickets here · Dussmann Website Event
Book Presentation and Reception.
KulturBühne, Friedrichstraße 90, 10117 Berlin.
In English language.
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The courageous acts of whistleblowing that inspired the world over the past few years have changed our perception of surveillance and control in today's information society. But what are the wider effects of whistleblowing as an act of dissent on politics, society, and the arts?
Tatiana Bazzichelli (ed.), Whistleblowing for Change. Exposing Systems of Power and Injustice, Transcript, € 29,50 + EPUB + PDF.
Whistleblowing for Change investigates whistleblowing as a developing political practice. The book does not only involve whistleblowers, but also journalists, activists, artists, filmmakers, advocates, and critical thinkers, reflecting on how whistleblowing contributes to change in society, culture, and politics.
Unlike other books that investigate whistleblowing as specific and very technical topic, the main idea behind Whistleblowing for Change is to focus on thirty individual stories, to bring awareness on the choices and consequences of becoming whistleblowers, as well as to reflect on the impact of producing evidence as an act of social and political accountability. On October 26, Frederik Obermaier, Tatiana Bazzichelli and Robert Trafford will be in dialogue around some of the book’s topics, discussing respectively the role of whistleblowers and journalists to fight for a more transparent world, the impact of whistleblowing on art and culture, and the links between “big data”, whistleblowing and open-source investigation.
Frederik Obermaier
Investigative journalist, paper trail media, DE
Twitter: @f_obermaier
Frederik Obermaier is a book author and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter. He co-founded paper trail media.He is one of the two reporters first contacted by the anonymous source of the Panama Papers, the leaked documents that prompted a global investigation involving hundreds of journalists. He also co-initiated the Bahamas-Leaks- and Paradise Papers-revelations and the Suisse Secrets-investigations. Obermaier is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, co-founder of the Anti Corruption Data Collective and co-author with Bastian Obermayer of the international bestsellers Panama Papers – Breaking the story of how the rich and powerful hide their money (Oneworld Publications, 2017) and The Ibiza Affair - Inside views of a scandal (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2019). Together with Obermayer and the journalist Hannes Munzinger he co-authored the book Suisse Secrets - How bankers hid money from tax evaders, torture generals, dictators and the Catholic Church - with the help of politics (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2022).
Tatiana Bazzichelli
Founder & Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, DE/IT
TTatiana Bazzichelli is founder and director at Disruption Network Lab, a Berlin-based nonprofit organisation in Germany that has since 2014 organized events at the intersection of human rights and technology with the objective of exposing the misconduct and wrongdoing of the powerful (https://www.disruptionlab.org). Her focus of work is whistleblowing, network culture, art, and hacktivism. She is author of the books Whistleblowing for Change (2021), Networked Disruption (2013), Disrupting Business (2013), and Networking (2006). In 2011-2014 she was programme curator at transmediale festival in Berlin. She received a PhD degree in Information and Media Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Aarhus University in Denmark in 2011. In 2019-2021 she was appointed jury member for the Capital Cultural Fund by the German Federal Government and the city of Berlin, and in 2020-2022 jury member for the Kulturlichter prize, a new award for digital cultural education in Germany.
Robert Trafford
Researcher, Open Source Investigations, Forensic Architecture, UK
Twitter: @bobtrafford
Robert is a research coordinator with Forensic Architecture, a pioneering investigative agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London. His role at Forensic Architecture covers open source research and visual investigation, editing and writing for scripts and exhibitions, as well as coordinating investigations. His investigative work has spanned from police violence against US protesters to the extrajudicial killing of civilians by Cameroon’s special forces. He also jointly coordinated investigations into the 2011 killing of Mark Duggan by UK police, and the agency’s acclaimed TRIPLE-CHASER investigation, which premiered at the 2019 Whitney Biennial in New York. Robert is trained as an investigative journalist, a graduate of the University of Oxford and City, University of London. Prior to joining Forensic Architecture, he was a freelance journalist, covering the 2015 refugee crisis from Greece and France.
Theresa Züger
Research Group Lead: Public Interest AI, AI & Society Lab, DE
Theresa Züger is head of the Public Interest AI research group funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The group is concerned with the question of how AI can serve the public interest and which technical and social criteria must be fulfilled for this to happen. She is also co-lead of the AI & Society Lab. In 2017, Theresa received her PhD in Media Studies from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her PhD, Reload Disobedience, focuses on digital forms of civil disobedience. In 2016, she curated and moderated for transmediale, a festival for media art and digital culture, on the thematic field of security politics and culture. Theresa’s research focuses on the political dimensions of digital technologies and cultures, with particular interest in questions of democratic theory.