[spectre] Networked Disruption: Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social Networking

[Tatiana Bazzichelli]

Ph.d-Defence Tatiana Bazzichelli:

Networked Disruption. Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the 
Business of Social Networking
5. December 2011, 14:00 to 17:00
Det lille Auditorium, Incuba Science Park, Åbogade 15, Aarhus 
University, Denmark

Networked Disruption
Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social 
Networking

In connection with the submission of her PhD dissertation "Networked 
Disruption. Rethinking oppositions in art, hacktivism and the business 
of social networking" to the Faculty of Arts at Aarhus University for 
the award of a PhD degree in Information and Media Studies, Tatiana 
Bazzichelli will publicly defend her research in an open forum, 14-17 on 
Monday December 5, 2011, in Det lille Auditorium, Incuba Science Park,
Åbogade 15, Aarhus University, Denmark.

The objective of this research is to rethink the meaning of oppositional 
practices in art, hacktivism and the business of social networking. By 
identifying the emerging contradictions within the current economical 
and political framework of Web 2.0, hacker and artistic practices are 
analysed through business instead of in opposition to it. Shedding light 
on the mutual interferences between networking participation and
disruptive business innovation, this research explores the current 
transformation in political and technological criticism. After 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. Disruption becomes a two-way strategy in networking 
contexts, a practice to generate criticism, and a methodology to create
business innovation.

Connecting together disruptive practices of networked art and hacking in 
California and in Europe, the author proposes a constellation of social 
networking projects that challenge the notion of power and hegemony, 
such as mail art, Neoism, The Church of the SubGenius, Luther Blissett, 
Anonymous, Anna Adamolo, Les Liens Invisibles, the Telekommunisten 
collective, The San Francisco Suicide Club, The Cacophony Society, the
early Burning Man Festival, the NoiseBridge hackerspace, and many others.

Examining committee:
Senior Lecturer Olga Goriunova, Dept. of Applied Social Sciences, London
Metropolitan University, United Kingdom;
Professor Franco Berardi, Accademia di Belle Arti, Carrara, Italy;
Associate Professor Geoff Cox, Dept. of Information and Media Studies,
Aarhus University (chairman).

After the PhD degree there will be a reception in room 229, Nygaard
Building, Finlandsgade 21, 8200 Aarhus N.

Related programme:

Tuesday December 6: "Sensibility and Semiocapital" Lecture by Franco 
Berardi "Bifo"
(Respondent: Olga Goriunova).
Peter Bøgh Andersen Auditoriet, Nygaard, Aarhus University (12:00-14.00).
More info: http://darc.imv.au.dk/?p=2639

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