Networking means to create nets of relations, by sharing experiences and ideas in order to communicate and experiment artistically and where the publisher and the reader, the artist and the public, act on the same level.

Art provides a critical perspective on political imagination: the networking projects act inside those interstices, those social and cultural fractures which apparently seem to be at the margin of daily life, but instead are an important territory for the re-invention and re-writing of symbolic and expressive codes which can transform and decode the present.

Networking Projects promoted by AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artivism

	AHAcktitude 2009 Second national meeting of the AHA community. Three days of activity and activism, of enjoyment and sharing, of study and fun. The event is directly organized by the subscribers of the AHA mailing list, following the model of the Italian hackmeetings, promoting the Do It Yourself attitude applied to technologies. The event is also the occasion to launch the new independent social network of the AHA community: AHAcktitude.org.	November 27, 28, 29, 2009 AHAcktitude 2009. National meeting of the AHA community and the subscribers of the aha@lists.ecn.org mailing list on artivism and hacktivism at the Cantiere Social Centre in Milan - Via Monte Rosa, 84. AHAcktitude 2009
	Networking & Hacktivism in Denmark Networking Art projects created by the students of the course "Hacktivism & Networking. From Mail Art to Web 2.0" arranged by Tatiana Bazzichelli, at the Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. The course was having place from February 2, until May 18, 2009; the students' projects are still open for interaction. Description of the projects.	February 2 - May 18, 2009 Hacktivism & Networking Course at Aarhus University. Class by Tatiana Bazzichelli at the Department of Information and Media Studies. With the active participation of the mail artist Vittore Baroni. Info about the Course.
	Pre-ahaCamping 2009 Pre-AHA meeting of the aha@lists.ecn.org subscribers, towards the next AHACamp 2009. The Pre-AHA Camp 2009 was organized first in Rome, on 28th May, at the LPM (Live Performers Meeting) Festival and later in Milan within the Hackmeeting 09, on June 20th. Also this year the pre-meeting is organized through the ahaCamper platform. Themes: hacktivism, artivism, networking.	20 June 2009 Pre-AHACamping, within Hackmeeting 2009 Hackmeeting 09. Social Center Sos Fornace, Rho, Milan, IT. 28 May 2009 First pre-AHa Camping at the LPM Festival, Live Performers Meeting Organized by the aha@lists.ecn.org community. AHA Mailing-list
	Networking. The Net as Artwork English translation of the book Networking. La rete come arte, published by the Digital Aesthetics Research Centre of Aarhus University, Denmark and part of the Digital Urban Living research program, Aarhus, DK. Translated by Helen Pringle and Maria Anna Calamia; layout by Jonas Frankki. Available in digital and printed format.	Digital Aesthetics Research Centre, Aarhus University Author: Tatiana Bazzichelli. Preface: Derrick de Kerckhove. Afterword: Simonetta Fadda. Licensed under the GNU Free Dcoumentation License. Sito del libro Networking ENG
	ahaCamping The ahaCamping is the first collective meeting of the mailing-list subscribers of aha@ecn.org, born as the hub of the AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artivism networking project. The idea of the ahaCamping comes as a result of the need of the nearly 600 aha@ecn.org subscribers to meet for the first time since the creation of the mailing-list (December 30, 2002) and discuss themes such as artistic, political and technological activism. The organization of the Camping is collective and managed on the ahaCamper platform.	October 3-4-5, 2008 AHACamping, hosted by the S.A.L.E. artistic space. Magazzini del sale, Dorsoduro 187-188, Venice, Italy Curated by the aha@ecn.org community AHA Mailing-list
	Pre-ahaCamping The Pre-ahaCamping has been the preparation lab of the coming ahaCamping. On March 15, 2008, the aha@ecn.org community has met to organize a future ahaCamp in Italy, around the themes of hacktivism and artistic activism. Hosted by Turin's Share Festival, has been an important meeting to set up the roots of the ahaCamper, the collective platform of sharing, and to decide topics, place and dates of the ahaCamping.	March 15, 2008 Pre-ahaCamping, at the Cinema KingKong Microplex, Via Po 21, Turin. Within the Share Festival, Turin. Meeting curated by the aha@ecn.org community Mailing-list AHA
	PrixArs: Honorary Mention Digital Communities In Settembre 2007 the AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artivism project has won the Honorary Mention for the Digital Communities Category of the Prix Ars Electronica, the well known competition of digital arts organized every year since 1979 by the Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria. The jury, composed by Andreas Hirsch (AT), Steve Rogers (UK), Gunalan Nadarajan (SG/US), Kathy Rae Huffman (UK), Andre' Lemos (BR), has considered the AHA project as an artistic networking platform. AHA's Honorary Mention	Ars Electronica Festival, September 2007 Prix Ars Electronica 2007, Honorary Mention, Digital Communities Category. Organized by Ars Electronica Linz and ORF Oberoesterreich. 5-12 September 2007, Linz, Austria. Ars Electronica Festival 2007 Category: Digital Communities
	Networking. The Net as Artwork The book represents a first tentative reconstruction of the history of artistic networking in Italy, through an analysis of the realities which during the past twenty years have given way to a creative, shared and aware use of technologies, from video to computers, contributing to the formation of Italian hacker communities. It builds a reflection on the new role of the artist and author who become networker, operating in collective nets, reconnecting to neoavant-garde artistic practices of the 1960's (first and foremost Fluxus), but also Mail art, Neoism and Luther Blissett.	Costa & Nolan Publishing, Milan, November 2006 Written by Tatiana Bazzichelli. Preface by Derrick de Kerckhove. Epilogue by Simonetta Fadda. Licensed under Creative Commons, digital version ready for download on the book's site. Networking's book Website

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