Tatiana Bazzichelli (Rome, IT, 1974), is a communication sociologist and an expert in network culture, hacktivism and net art. She gave a dissertation on Italian interactive digital art at the University la Sapienza in Rome (1999). She holds a M.A. Degree in New Media and Communication, with a specialization in Digital TV, achieved in 2001 at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. In 2002, she attended an High Formation Course on Management of Arts and Culture at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa.
In 2000-2003 she worked as Content Manager and Multimedia Project Planner for the Web-Company KSolutions? of l'Espresso Editions Group / la Repubblica newspaper in Rome, Italy.
She is founder of the networking project AHA:Activism-Hacking-Artivism (2001), which won the Honorary Mention for the Digital Communities category at the Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria, 2007. She manages the aha@ecn.org mailing list regarding artistic activism. Towards the end of the 1990s she organised events and conventions, such as Hackmit! (Berlin, 2007), Cum2Cut (Berlin, 2006), Hack.it.art (Berlin 2005), Art on the Net in Italy (Berlin 2005), MediaDemocracy? and Telestreet (Munich, 2004), AHA (Rome, 2002), Hacker Art Lab (Perugia, 2000).
She wrote "Networking. La rete come arte | The Net as Artwork" book published in December 2006 by Costa & Nolan, Milan (Preface by Derrick de Kerckhove). For the same publisher, she wrote "From Telestreet to Hackmeetings: the network of information creation" in the book Neo Television, Elements of Glocal Cathode Language, edited by M. Pecchioli.
She is a free-lance journalist and writes of art, media and hacktivism for "Internet Magazine", "Next Exit", "Digimag". She wrote articles and reviews published on "AD-Architectural Digest", "Flash Art", "XL" of la Repubblica newspaper, "Queer" of Liberazione newspaper, "Neural", "Avatar", "Tk-Off", "Noemalab", "Cluster", "Cut-up".
Since 2003, she lives in Berlin, Germany.