AHA Community

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.

Tatiana Bazzichelli (Rome-Berlin)
Founder of Activism-Hacking-Artivism Project, web master of AHA web site and owner of aha@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. Today she is organizing exhibition and event mainly in the city of Berlin, Germany, where she lives since 2003. 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 writes for several magazines on net art and hacktivism and she is corrispondent for "Internet Magazine", where she managed a blog on women and technologies.
Web site: www.tatianabazzichelli.online.de

Eleonora Calvelli (Rome)
Eleonora Calvelli is AHA mailing-list editor, photographer and lecturer in Theory and Technology of the New Media at Link Campus University of Malta in Rome. She writes 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.

Curators and participants involved in the AHA exhibitions/events (2002-2005)

Exhibit/Event Hack.it.art, Hacktivism in the Context of Art and Media in Italy (2005): curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli and Alexandra Weltz.
With: Sexyshock, Agnese Trocchi/Candida TV, Asbesto/Freaknet Medialab, Fabrizio Manizza/Disco Volante TV, Alessandro Ludovico/Neural, Nikky and Francesco "Warbear" Macarone Palmieri/PHAG OFF, Federico Bucalossi/Not Human, Giacomo Verde/Eutope, Tommaso Tozzi/Hacker Art, Franca Formenti/Bio Dolls, Nomad & Miss Riel/GATA project, Pi-radio and Displaced Dilemma/Superfactory TM, Cornelia Sollfrank, Diana McCarty, Susanne Schmidt, Sebastian Luetgert.

Exhibit/Event MediaDemocracy and Telestreet, Networking Free TV (2004): curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli and Alexandra Weltz.
With: Candida TV, Minimal TV, New Global Vision, Rekombinant, P2P-Fig??htSharing, infoAccessibile and Telestreet Videos.

Exhibit/Event Kaiṛs, The Virtuality of Art and the Reality of Pictures (2003): curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli and Mario Savini.
With: Federico Bucalossi, Massimo Contrasto, Mariano Equizzi, GMM, Tommaso Tozzi, Giacomo Verde and the collectives AvANa.net, Candida TV, Indymedia Italia, Indymedia New York, Neguvon, Quinta Parete Network, Strano Network.

Exhibit/Event AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artivism, Making art doing multimedia (2002): curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli.
With: Isole nella Rete, Indymedia Italia, Radio GAP, Strano Network, Tactical Media Crew, Candida TV, Netstrike.it, AvANa.net, Autistici/Inventati, copyDOWN, Giacomo Verde, Tommaso Tozzi, GMM (Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici), Massimo Contrasto, Federico Bucalossi, Claudio Parrini, Ferry Byte, Arclele, Mariano Equizzi, Neguvon and the print magazines Decoder and Neural.