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.
Art + activism stimulate real experimentation on expressive language.

Networking Projects promoted by AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artivism

	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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