Networked Disruption Networked
NETWORKED DISRUPTION fter the emergence of Web 2.0, the critical framework of art and hacktivism has shifted from developing strategies of opposition to embarking on the art of disruption. By identifying the present Acontradictions within the economical and political framework of Web 2.0, hacker and artistic practices are analysed through business instead of in opposition to it. Connecting together disruptive practices of networked art and hacking BAZZICHELLI TATIANA TATIANA BAZZICHELLI in California and Europe, the author proposes a constellation of social networking projects that challenge the notion of power and hegemony, such as mail art, Neoism, Th e Church of the SubGenius, Luther Blissett, Anonymous, Anna Adamolo, Les Liens Invisibles, the Telekommunisten collective, Th e San Francisco Suicide Club, Th e Cacophony Society, the NETWORKED early Burning Man Festival, the NoiseBridge hackerspace, and many others. Tatiana Bazzichelli is a PhD Scholar at Aarhus University. She was a visiting scholar at Stanford University (2009) and is part of the transmediale DISRUPTION festival team in Berlin. Active in the Italian hacker community since the end of the ’90s, her project AHA won the honorary mention for digital RETHINKING OPPOSITIONS IN ART, HACKTIVISM communities at Ars Electronica in 2007. She has previously written the book Networking: Th e Net as Artwork (Costa & Nolan, 2006/DARC, AND THE BUSINESS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING 2008). www.networkingart.eu PHD DISSERTATION · AARHUS UNIVERSITY 2011 NETWORKED DISRUPTION Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social Networking Tatiana Bazzichelli PhD Dissertation Department of Information and Media Studies Aarhus University 2011 Supervisor: Søren Pold, Associate Professor Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University.
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