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Draft:Disruption Network Lab

Disruption Network Lab e.V.
Formation2014 (2014)
FounderTatiana Bazzichelli
TypeNon-profit organization
Legal statusEingetragener Verein (German registered voluntary association)
HeadquartersBerlin, Germany
Location
  • Treptower Str. 23,
    12059 Berlin, Germany
Region served
Global
Artistic Director & board chair
Tatiana Bazzichelli
Senior project manager & board member
Elena Veljanovska
Administration Officer
Veronika Nad
Websitedisruptionlab.org

The Disruption Network Lab is Berlin based nonprofit organization with activities revolving at intersections of politics, technology, society and the arts.[1]

Organization

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The Disruption Network Lab was founded in 2014 and has since coordinated over 30 conferences, and related community gatherings and workshops associated in collaboration with grassroots networks and organizations, both within Berlin and internationally.[2]

The organization has also conducted online series titled Disruptive Fridays.[3]

The founder of the Disruption Network Lab, Tatiana Bazzichelli currently serves as the board chair and artistic director. The concept of disruption was idea of Bazzichelli to develop a comprehensive program of events starting from her own academic research.[4]

Working Method

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The notion of "disruption" is intentionally shifted away from its business-oriented connotation, now signifying a profound transformation that instigates unforeseen changes within systems.[5]

In her PhD dissertation at Aarhus University, Disruption Network Lab's founder, Tatiana Bazzichelli, explains that "Networked Disruption" seeks to explore unforeseen perturbations emerging within closed structures. The concept of disruption evolves into a viable prospect of intervening with systems internally, encompassing realms of politics, technology, and the arts.[6]

Name of the Conference Date Venue N. of participants
Drones: Eyes from a distance #DNL1i
Cyborgs: Hacktivists, freaks and hybrid uprsing #DNL2ii
A Game of You: Into the social media vortex #DNL3
Samizdata: Tactics and strategies for resistance #DNL4
  1. i^

iihttps://www.exberliner.com/berlin/cyborg-helena-velena-interview/

Areas of Work

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Whistleblowing, Surveillance and Digital Resistance

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Since 2015 Disruption Network Lab has organised conferences, meetings and workshops focused on topics like drone warfare, digital surveillance, and whistleblowing. These events featured notable speakers including a former sensor operator from the US Air Force and the initial individual to blow the whistle on drone-related matters Brandon Bryant, who gave a speech during the first Disruption Network Lab's conference DRONES: Eyes From a Distance (April 2015).[7] Other notable speakers on the topics have been CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou who attended the conference PRISONERS OF DISSENT: Locked Up for Exposing Crimes (May 2017) giving a keynote about the effects and costs of national security whistleblowing in the United States.[8] In March 2021 the Disruption Network Lab dedicated an entire conference to whistleblowing during the pandemic with BEHIND THE MASK, featuring Chinese artist AI Wei Wei.[9]

In November of 2021, the anthology titled Whistleblowing for Change: Exposing Systems of Power and Injustice, authored by Tatiana Bazzichelli and published by transcript Verlag, consolidated the collective efforts of Disruption Network Lab and thirty individuals, including whistleblowers, researchers, journalists, artists, and activists. This compilation delves into the expanding trend of whistleblowing, scrutinizing the act of whistleblowing as an evolving political endeavor capable of instigating transformative shifts from within.[6][10] The anthology was presented to the public at the conference WHISTLEBLOWING FOR CHANGE: Exposing Systems of Power and Injustice (November 2021),[11] where American Intelligence whistleblower Reality Winner made her first public appearance since being sentenced to five years and three months in prison in August 2018.[12]

Social Justice, AI and Human Rights

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AI-driven discrimination, polarised narratives and the use of AI in prisons and in warfare have been discussed in several of Disruption Network Lab's conferences, from BOTS: Tracking Systems of Control (April 2016)[13] and AI TRAPS (June 2019),[14] to BORDERS OF FEAR: Migration, Security & Control (November 2020) where Legal Advisor of ECCHR Migration Program Hanaa Hakiki discussed illegal pushbacks and border violence in Croatia confirmed in 2020.[15][16] In March 2022 unmanned warfare has been discussed during THE KILL CLOUD conference[17] and in April 2023 the conference SMART PRISONS: Tracking, Monitoring & Control addressed the issue of systems of surveillance around prisons, detention centres and borders.[18]

Misinformation, Hate Speech and Empowering Civil Society

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Over the years, Disruption Network Lab has created discussion spaces to reflect on free speech, hate speech and misinformation. The topic of the War on terror was addressed in November 2017 at the conference TERROR FEEDS: Inside the Fear Machine[19] with the participation of Syrian journalist, human rights defender, activist and IT trainer Abdalaziz Alhamza.[20] The conference HATE NEWS: Manipulators, Trolls and Influencers (May 2018) explored the manipulation of online opinion and discussed the Cambridge Analytica Scandal.[21] INFILTRATION: Challenging Supremacism (September 2018) featured American R&B and blues musician and activist Daryl Davis.[22] CITIZENS OF EVIDENCE: Independent Investigations for Change (September 2019) explored the investigative power of grassroots communities and citizens to expose corruption.[23] Hate speech and misinformation were also addressed as collaborative projects with the Regional Democratic Hub Caucasus (from 2020 to 2022).[24]

Identity, Critical Technology, and Artistic Practices

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Disruption Network Lab created an opportunity to reflect on the international book launch of Sci-Fi theorist Antonio Caronia[25] in 2015 by inviting cyberfeminist Australian art group VNS Matrix to the conference CYBORGS: Hacktivists, Freaks and Hybrid Uprsing (March 2015).[26] Since then, questions of identity and artistic practices have been part of the Disruption Network Lab's activities as cross-cutting themes, particularly in the conferences STUNTS: Distributed, Playful and Disruptive (December 2015),[27] POWERS OF TRUTH: China, Art & Resistance (October 2021),[28] TRANSITIONING: Art, Politics & Technologies of Gender Change (June 2022),[29] MADNESS: Fighting for Justice in Mental Health (November 2022),[30] and ARTIVISM: the Art of Subverting Power (June 2023).[31]

Anti-Corruption and Transparency

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From 2019 Disruption Network Lab addressed the topic of corruption, power and financial system organizing conferences and online events. The first conference on the topic has been DARK HAVENS: Confronting Hidden Money & Power (April 2019) with a keynote speech by German investigative journalist Frederik Obermaier.[32] In 2020, in cooperation with Transparency International e.V. (TI), Disruption Network Lab organised the conference EVICTED BY GREED: Global Finance, Housing & Resistance.[33]

References

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  1. ^ "Disruption Network Lab - Guerrilla Foundation". guerrillafoundation.org. 16 January 2023. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  2. ^ "ACTIVATION: Collective Strategies to Expose Injustice - Re-imagine Europe". re-imagine-europe.eu. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Disruption Network Lab - Disruptive Fridays - Tactics of Empowerment". culturalfoundation.eu. 25 September 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  4. ^ Matteoni, Federica (18 November 2021). "Jungle World - »Whistleblowing sollte ein Bürgerrecht werden«". jungle.world. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  5. ^ ""Exposing systems of power and injustice." An interview with the Disruption Network Lab". sovereignty.weizenbaum-institut.de. 17 February 2021. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  6. ^ a b Bazzichelli, Tatiana (2013). Networked Disruption: Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social Networking. Aarhus University Press. pp. 197–229. ISBN 978-8791810244.
  7. ^ Krempl, Stefan (18 April 2015). "Ex-US-Pilot: "Todesdrohnen sind die feigeste Art der Kriegsführung"". heise.de. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  8. ^ Mustroph, Tom (18 May 2017). "Folter und Drohnenkrieg säen Hass". nd-aktuell.de. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  9. ^ Kurianowicz, Tomasz (17 March 2021). "Wie ist die Situation von Whistleblowern in der Pandemie?". berliner-zeitung.de. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  10. ^ Debatty, Régine (23 December 2021). "Whistleblowing for Change. Exposing Systems of Power & Injustice". we-make-money-not-art.com. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  11. ^ Matteoni, Federica (24 November 2021). "Whistleblowing for change, la dicotomia artificiale: intervista a Tatiana Bazzichelli". ilmanifesto.it. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  12. ^ Mastrobuoni, Tonia (10 December 2021). "Spifferatori di tutto il mondo, unitevi". repubblica.it. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  13. ^ "Disruption Network Lab / Bots: Tracking Systems of Control". andfestival.org.uk. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  14. ^ "AI TRAPS – Automating Discrimination". kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de. 12 April 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  15. ^ "Migration". www.ecchr.eu. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
  16. ^ Lüdke, Steffen; Vögele, Nicole (18 November 2020). "Video Documents Illegal Refugee Pushbacks in Croatia". spiegel.de. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  17. ^ Noubel, Filip (30 March 2022). "Drone warfare: Can international humanitarian law catch up with the technology?". globalvoices.org. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  18. ^ "Disruption Network Lab: How AI promotes discrimination against migrants". allianzfoundation.org. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  19. ^ Borsci, Alessandro (6 February 2018). "Terror Feeds Report from Disruption Network Lab". Furtherfield.org. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  20. ^ Garrett, Marc (2 July 2018). "Disruption Network Lab: Art as Investigating Misconduct & Wrongdoing". furtherfield.org. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  21. ^ Lawson, Emma (24 May 2018). "Taking Cambridge Analytica to Court: David Caroll, Interview with David Carol". exberliner.com. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  22. ^ Uthoff, Jens (6 September 2018). "Schwarzer Musiker über Rassismus: Der Mann, der Nazis zweifeln lässt". Die Tageszeitung: Taz. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  23. ^ Indelicato, Mauro (23 September 2019). "Dictator Alert, una app per scovare i viaggi dei leader più discussi". humanrightspulse.com. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  24. ^ "HATE NEWS vs. FREE SPEECH: Polarization & Pluralism in Georgian Media". Furtherfield.org. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  25. ^ "CYBORG: Hacktivists, Freaks and Hybrid Uprisings". iicberlino.esteri.it. 29 May 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  26. ^ Peteranderl, Sonja (2 June 2015). "Die Pionierinnen des Cyberfeminismus sagen den Tech-Cowboys den Kampf an". wired.de. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  27. ^ Sterling, Bruce (24 November 2015). "STUNTS: Distributed, Playful & Disruptive, in Berlin". wired.com. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  28. ^ Stoica, Diana Elena (25 January 2022). "Powers Of Truth: Badiucao". humanrightspulse.com. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  29. ^ Noubel, Filip (2 July 2022). "The poet's mindset as a tool against transphobia: An interview with US veteran and trans activist Drew Pham". globalvoices.org. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  30. ^ Jervert, Karin (23 November 2022). "Art and Transformation: Creating Justice in Mental Health". madinamerica.com. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  31. ^ "Una due giorni internazionale sull'artivismo da non perdere". dada-tv.org. 16 December 2022. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  32. ^ Netz, Laura (21 April 2019). "Dark Havens, confronting Hidden Money & Power: The Art of Exposing Injustice". clotmag.com. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  33. ^ Schneider, Ruth (29 May 2020). "Who owns Berlin". exberliner.com. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
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