Tatiana Bazzichelli

Founder & Artistic Director
Disruption Network Lab e. V. Board Chair

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Tatiana Bazzichelli founded the Disruption Network Lab and has been its director since 2014. She curates the programme and researches the annual themes. Since September 2023, she has also directed the Disruption Network Institute. Her work focuses on hacktivism, digital culture, art and whistleblowing. In 2011-2014 she was curator at the transmediale art & digital culture festival, where she ran the year-round programme “reSource transmedial culture Berlin”. In 2019-2021, she was appointed as a jury member for the Hauptstadtkulturfonds, the Capital Cultural Fund of the Federal Government and Berlin, and in 2020-2023 as a jury member for KulturLichter, the German Prize for Cultural Education. She was a member of the Transparency International Anti-Corruption Award Committee 2020. In 2012-2014 she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University Lüneburg. She received a Ph.D. in Information and Media Studies from the Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University in 2011. Her doctoral publication, Networked Disruption: Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social Networking, was the result of her 2009 visiting scholarship at Stanford University’s H-STAR Institute. She is the author of Whisteblowing for Change: Exposing Systems of Power and Injustice (2021); Disrupting Business: Art and Activism in Times of Financial Crisis (2013) and Networking: The Net as Artwork (2006). She has taught courses on whistleblowing, hacktivism and digital culture at many institutions, including the Department of Cultural Practice at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (FHP) in 2016-2017. She curated the web residencies Blowing the Whistle – Questioning Evidence (Akademie Schloss Solitude and ZKM | Center for Art and Media, 2017), and 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). She has been active in the Italian hacker scene since the 1990s, and her project AHA:Activism-Hacking Artivism received an Honorary Mention for Digital Communities at Ars Electronica 2007. Born in Rome, she has lived in Berlin since 2003.

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