Art as Evidence: When Art Meets Whistleblowing

Tatiana Bazzichelli and Joana Moll

index 2024: Art and technology biennial in braga (PT)

Date: 10 May, 2024. From 6pm.

Location: gnration (blackbox), Braga, Portugal

Moderation: Liliana Coutinho

Art as evidence. In other words, using art to shed light on a world that would otherwise be invisible. This conceptual framework for exploring the potential of art to uncover facts, expose wrongdoing and raise awareness of social, political and technological issues was coined a decade ago by the film director Laura Poitras (Citizenfour, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed). The talk will introduce the theme of disruption in relation to art and whistleblowing.   

Drawing on the events and research programme at the Disruption Network Lab in Berlin, Germany, through the voice of its founder and director Tatiana Bazzichelli and the artistic work of Joana Moll, the panel traces the background to the concept of art as evidence and the impact of whistleblowing on art and culture, from the early WikiLeaks projects to the revelations of Edward Snowden. Bazzichelli and Moll will present the Disruption Network Institute's work on AI and warfare, as well as our fellow Joana Moll's current research exploring new paradigms for understanding ad tech, the Internet's primary business model.

Tatiana Bazzichelli
Tatiana Bazzichelli is the founder and director of Disruption Network Lab, a non-profit organisation based in Berlin (Germany). Since 2014 she has been exploring the intersection of politics, technology and society. Her artistic work focuses on whistleblowing, network culture, art and activism. Bazichelli is the author of Whistleblowing for Change (2021) and Networked Disruption (2013). 

Joana Moll
Joana Moll is an artist, researcher and teacher. She divides her time between Barcelona (Spain) and Berlin (Germany). She is co-founder of the Critical Interface Politics research group at HANGAR (Barcelona). Moll’s work critically explores the way techno-capitalist narratives affect machines, humans and ecosystems. Her work has been presented at the Venice Biennale (Italy), Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria) and Harvard University (USA), among others.

More information: https://indexmediaarts.com/tatiana-bazzichelli-joana-moll-en/