[aha] AHAcktitude 2009, press release (ENG)

[T_Bazz]

AHAcktitude 2009

27-28-29th November, Milan, Italy

# Organised by:
aha at lists.ecn.org and AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artivism

In Milan on the 27, 28, and 29th of November the artivists of the AHA 
mailing list will meet at the "Il Cantiere" social centre.

Activist-artists, artistic hackers, social-artistic activists, call them 
whatever you like. The 600 subscribers to the AHA mailing list are just 
a small part of all those people who, in Italy and in the world, know 
that the medium is not just the message, but the massage and the 
'mixage'. They know that it is not enough to complain about TV (be it 
mainstream, communitarian or niche), or blabber on about alternative 
communication, because the experience must be developed, and because 
communication without bodies only communicates stereotypes, and the body 
without intelligence only produces manipulation.

For this reason from last year the subscribers of aha at list.ecn.org meet 
face to face periodically, each time in a different city, to open the 
black boxes, to get their hands inside the technological devices for 
communication and imagination, to deconstruct the official knowledge and 
share new knowledge, to work at collective intelligence of bodies and 
not at capital intelligence, to broaden the resistance to globalization 
of multinationals and institutional power.

AHAcktitude will be three days of activity and activism, of enjoyment 
and sharing, of study and fun. Technology, music, Internet, literature, 
telecommunications, marketing and social networks: everything will be 
targeted at open sourcing and open sharing. Methods, approaches, 
attitudes that are different but that communicate in order to explore, 
understand, and act in our condition of technologically modified beings.
Because human beings are worth more than merchandise, and we will not be 
satisfied while the life of someone who has more is worth more than the 
life of someone who has nothing.

aha at lists.ecn.org is an Italian mailing list created in 2002 within the 
AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artivism project, founded by Tatiana Bazzichelli, 
aka T_Bazz. AHA wants to promote networking and critical thinking, 
connecting artistic practices to political and social activism. We 
define these practices as 'artivism'.

More info:

AHAcktitude 2009:
http://www.ahacktitude.org/event/2009/
Social Network:
http://www.ahacktitude.org/

AHA mailing list:
http://lists.ecn.org/mailman/listinfo/aha

AHA - Activism-Hacking-Artivism:
http://www.ecn.org/aha/