AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artivism was created by Tatiana Bazzichelli in 2001 and the first exhibition was organised in Rome in February-March 2002.
The core of AHA is composed by all the people who join the network and who are involved from time to time in meetings, conventions, exhibitions and events.
The exhibits/events of AHA are usually curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli together with other indipendent curators and with the collaboration of all the artists and activists involved in them.
Since 2002, the aha@ecn.org mailing list is administrated by Tatiana Bazzichelli and, since October 2004 moderated with Eleonora Calvelli. Since May 2008, the mailing-list is also moderated by Lo_Bo with, since 2009, Clemente Pestelli and Gionatan Quintini.
Tatiana Bazzichelli (IT/DK)
Founder of Activism-Hacking-Artivism Project, and of the aha@lists.ecn.org mailing list. Communication sociologist and organizer of events/workshops on hacktivism and net.art, she has been engaged for a long time in carrying ahead a concept of hacker art inside of the collective AvANa.net of Rome and in collaboration with the Strano Network artistic group of Florence. From 2003 to 2008 she organized exhibition and event mainly in the city of Berlin, Germany, where she lived. She wrote the book Networking - The Net as Artwork, with the preface of Derrick De Kerckhove and the epilogue of the videoartist Simonetta Fadda. The book is available for download on www.networkingart.eu and in the bookshops of all Italy.
She had written for several magazines on net art and hacktivism. Today, she is a Ph.D. Scholar at Aarhus University, in Denmark, where she is researching on networking, hacktivism and web 2.0.
Web site: www.tatianabazzichelli.com
Eleonora Calvelli (IT)
Eleonora Calvelli was AHA mailing-list editor until April 2009, photographer and lecturer in Theory and Technology of the New Media at Link Campus University of Malta in Rome. She wrote for Neural magazine and other online reviews. She is particularly interested in censorship, security and privacy and proposes, through the art, an aware and creative attitude with regards to the technology. She lives in Rome, Italy.
Loretta Borrelli (IT)
AHA mailing list administrator from 2008 to date.
Clemente Pestelli (IT)
AHA mailing list administrator from 2009.
Gionatan Quintini (IT)
AHA mailing list administrator from 2009.
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