#DNL34 · Nov 29 – Dec 1· 2024
INVESTIGATING THE KILL CLOUD
Information Warfare, Autonomous Weapons & AI
10 Year Anniversary & 34th Conference of the Disruption Network Lab
Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Marianneplatz 2, 10997 Berlin & Streaming
Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Director, Disruption Network Institute, Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE). In collaboration with Jutta Weber (Professor for Media, Culture & Society, Paderborn University, DE).
In cooperation with the BMBF project ‘Swarm Technologies. Control and Autonomy in Complex Weapons Systems’, Paderborn University, coordinator of the research network ‘Meaningful Human Control: Autonomous Weapons Systems between Regulation and Reflection (MeHuCo)`.
Streamed for free. No registration required to follow the stream.
Sunday roundtable is not streamed
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Investigating The Kill Cloud brings together the research fellows of the Disruption Network Institute and international experts investigating the impact of artificial intelligence on new technologies of war, automated weapons and networked warfare.
Watch previous talks by our research fellows
Watch our research fellows Lisa Ling & Jack Poulson speak at our conference The Kill Cloud in 2022.
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Schedule
Friday, November 29, 2024
15:45 CET · Doors open
16:15–16:30 · OPENING
Tatiana Bazzichelli (Director, Disruption Network Institute, Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE).
16:30–17:00 · INTRO
Jesselyn Radack (Head of the Whistleblower and Source Protection Program WHISPeR at ExposeFacts, US), Thomas Drake (Whistleblower, former Senior Executive at the National Security Agency, US).
17:00–17:45 · PERFORMANCE
Joana Moll (Artist & Researcher, Professor of Networks, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, ES/DE).
17:45–18:15 · SHARING BREAK
18:15–20:30 · KEYNOTE
Lisa Ling (Whistleblower, Technologist, former Technical Sergeant, US Air Force Drone Surveillance Programme, US), Jack Poulson (Executive Director, Tech Inquiry, US), Naomi Colvin (Whistleblower Advocate and UK/Ireland/Belgium Programme Director at Blueprint for Free Speech, UK), Joana Moll (Artist and Researcher, Professor of Networks, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, ES/DE). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Director, Disruption Network Institute, Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE).
Saturday, November 30, 2024
13:30 CET · Doors open
14:00–14:15 · OPENING
Tatiana Bazzichelli (Director, Disruption Network Institute, Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE). Jutta Weber (Professor for Media, Culture & Society, Paderborn University, DE).
14:15–16:45 · PANEL
Lucy Suchman (Professor Emerita, Lancaster University, UK/CA), Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud (Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, NO), Elke Schwarz (Associate Professor, Queen Mary University London, UK), Marijn Hoijtink (Associate Professor, University of Antwerp, BE), Moderated by Jutta Weber (Professor for Media, Culture & Society, Paderborn University , DE).
16:45–17:15 · SHARING BREAK
17:15–18:00 · CONVERSATION
Shona Illingworth (Artist, Filmmaker, Professor of Art, Film, and Media, University of Kent, UK), Anthony Downey (Professor of Visual Culture in the Middle East and North Africa, Birmingham City University, UK).
18:00–18:30 · SHARING BREAK
18:30–20:30 · PANEL
Sophia Goodfriend (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative, Journalist, +972 Magazine, IL), Khalil Dewan (PhD Nomos Fellow in Law at SOAS University of London, UK), Matt Mahmoudi (Head of the Silicon Valley Initiative at Amnesty International, Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities, University of Cambridge, UK). Moderated by Matthias Monroy (Editor of the German civil rights journal Bürgerrechte & Polizei/CILIP and nd.Der Tag, DE).
Sunday, December 1, 2024
12:00–16:00 · WORKSHOP & ROUNDTABLE
NOT STREAMED - Details will follow.
INVESTIGATING THE KILL CLOUD
Information Warfare, Autonomous Weapons & AI
Funded by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds (The Capital Cultural Fund), The Reva and David Logan Foundation. Part of New Perspectives for Action. A project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union.
In cooperation with: Wau Holland Stiftung; The BMBF project ‘Swarm Technologies. Control and Autonomy in Complex Weapons Systems’, Paderborn University, coordinator of the research network “Meaningful Human Control: Autonomous Weapons Systems between Regulation and Reflection (MeHuCo)”.
Partner Venues: Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien, nGbK.
Outreach Partner: Untold Stories
Media Partners: taz, Global Voices, Il Mitte, U
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Streaming partner: Boiling Head Media.
Technology Partner: Geier-Tronic.
This conference is directly linked to the activity of the Disruption Network Institute, a new center for investigation and empirical research into the impact of artificial intelligence on new technologies of war, automated weapons and networked warfare, established by the Disruption Network Lab in September 2023. The independent research project “Investigating the Kill Cloud” (2023-2024) has been investigating links between artificial intelligence, surveillance, drone deployment, and further developments of automated weapon systems, aiming to produce knowledge urgently needed to critically assess and regulate the further merging of artificial intelligence into warfare.
The programme is based on debates generated during the Disruption Network Lab’s March 2022 conference The Kill Cloud: Networked Warfare, Drones & AI. The conference was aimed at providing some understanding into ethical problems with the current use of AI and satellite technology, such as their enabling of arbitrary targeted killing via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
The concept of the “Kill Cloud” was first outlined by drone whistleblowers Cian Westmoreland and Lisa Ling in the anthology Whistleblowing for Change (Tatiana Bazzichelli, transcript Verlag, 2021). It refers to the rapidly growing networked infrastructure of global reach with the primary intent of dominating every spectrum of warfare, including, space, cyberspace, and the electromagnetic spectrum itself. Westmoreland and Ling discussed how modern network centric warfare has been hidden behind the captivating image of the drone, all the while these systems are vastly more complex, insidious, ubiquitous, and inaccurate than the public is aware, and its colonial underpinnings continue to bring endless war to societies across the globe (as we are currently witnessing, for example, in Gaza and Ukraine).
In doing so, the Institute is not only contributing to an important ongoing debate about the future of warfare and the protection of civilians. It also directly mobilises the invaluable knowledge and experience of people who have helped to develop the current public discourse from within the systems under scrutiny. The initiative aims to provide a platform for investigation on the use of automatised technologies in the field of networked warfare, and the social and ethical implications of machine learning and algorithms in developing tactics of control, data tracking and surveillance.
In the 2023-2024 fellowship round, investigations have been carried out by four affiliated fellows, namely Lisa Ling (Whistleblower, Technologist, former Technical Sergeant, US Air Force Drone Surveillance Programme, US), Jack Poulson (Executive Director, Tech Inquiry, US), Naomi Colvin (Whistleblower Advocate and UK/Ireland/Belgium Programme Director at Blueprint for Free Speech, UK), and Joana Moll (Artist and Researcher, Professor of Networks, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, ES/DE). They will present the results of their research in a keynote panel moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Director, Disruption Network Institute, Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE).
In connection to the Disruption Network Institute’s work, this conference will investigate:
- How does the inclusion of artificial intelligence and autonomy impact networked warfare?
- What are the experiences/knowledge of whistleblowers which undermine networked warfare’s legality, morality, and ethics?
- What challenges does global connectivity, AI, and connected weaponry bring to democracy, human rights and the civil society?
- How does algorithmic warfare based on data mining and machine learning effect targeting killing policy?
- How is information warfare fueled by social media and cellphone location-tracking surveillance?
- How is artistic practice able to produce evidence in the field of information warfare?
This three day event involves the participation of researchers in the field of AI and warfare and will present a panel and an artistic talk in cooperation with the BMBF project ‘Swarm Technologies. Control and Autonomy in Complex Weapons Systems’, Paderborn University – which is the coordinator of the research network ‘Meaningful Human Control: Autonomous Weapons Systems between Regulation and Reflection (MeHuCo).
This project, led by Prof. Dr. Jutta Weber (Professor for Media, Culture & Society, Paderborn University, DE), analyses current concepts and socio-technical imaginations of autonomous drone swarms capable of learning within current military thinking and elucidates the implication for the human-machine-relationship and future forms of warfare. There are, on the one hand, analyses oriented towards military strategy that seek to achieve a new quality of autonomy and cognitive performance in weapons systems with biomimetic and complexity-theoretical concepts of behaviour, control and controllability of drone swarms. On the other hand, critics point to the fundamental unpredictability of complex swarm behaviour and challenge the idea of the responsibility of a ‘human on the loop’.
In May 2024, Jutta Weber and Jens Hälterlein, coordinators of the Meaningful Human Control project conducted the international conference ‘Imaginations of Autonomy. On Humans, AI-based Weapon Systems and Responsibility at Machine Speed’ at Paderborn University. It investigated concepts of autonomy. Not only with regard to machines or humans but human-machine assemblages – their subjectivities, bodies, and material infrastructures. These assemblages exhibit agency beyond the clear-cut realms of machines and humans – though responsibility can only stay with humans. Therefore, the autonomy of decision, targeting and killing systems is to be understood as a discursive imagination though it has very real effects. Its promises of speed, precision and omniscience are promoted by politicians and the military; they drive hegemonic global discourses and devalue investments in diplomacy, conflict management and peace research. Its technosolutionist stance legitimises arms contracts if not arms race. Problems such as automation bias, opaqueness of systems and susceptibility to error are often underestimated or ignored. Against this background the project aims to develop new approaches to understand military human/machine configurations (more here).
Several key participants of the conference (Marijn Holtijnk, University of Antwerp, BE; Eric Reichborn-Kjunnerud, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, NO; Elke Schwarz, Queen Mary University of London, UK; Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University, UK) will present further research findings in a panel moderated by Jutta Weber, Paderborn University, DE.
Throughout the following conversation, Shona Illingworth and Anthony Downey explore how we deploy creative practices to critically address the fatal interlocking of global surveillance technologies, neocolonial expansionism, environmental degradation, and the lethal threat of drone warfare. In particular, they focus on the weaponisation of AI and how it has influenced contemporary models of warfare.
As we have seen in the context of use of automated weapons system in the US in the last two decades, opaque application of technological advancements comes with critical implications for individuals both in the military as well as in the affected areas. At the same time, the Artificial Intelligence Act, a proposed regulation of the European Union, explicitly exempts application in the military sector. The Act introduces a common regulatory and legal framework for artificial intelligence (except for military), and our project’s outputs can inform parameters for their translation into the military sector.
The conference will contribute also to the debate around the expected change in evaluation of existing positions regarding automated warfare and drone application discussing the current war in Gaza, through a panel with Sophia Goodfriend (Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative, +972 Magazine), Khalil Dewan (SOAS, University of London, UK), Matt Mahmoudi (Amnesty International, University of Cambridge, UK), moderated by Matthias Monroy (civil rights journal Bürgerrechte & Polizei/CILIP and nd.Der Tag).
The crucial question remains how to connect a large community of whistleblowers, researchers, artists, activists and journalists in the current debate around AI and the future of war. Specific discussion at the conference will revolve around the methodology of working with sensitive information by processing public data, rather than classified information, as well as what is the most appropriated and secure way to process information that have become public by acts of whistleblowing and leaking, as we will discuss in a further round-table at the end of the conference organised in cooperation between the Disruption Network Institute and the project ‘Swarm Technologies. Control and Autonomy in Complex Weapons Systems’, at Paderborn University.
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Speakers
Lisa Ling
Whistleblower, Technologist, former Technical Sergeant, US Air Force Drone Surveillance Programme, US
Lisa Ling began her military career in the early 1990s as a medic and nurse. She became recognised for her information systems skills, and was encouraged to enter the combat communications field, where she participated in the operations, maintenance, and security of networked communications technology. The Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) enterprise required more people to build and operate it, so her Combat Communications Squadron was assimilated into the Drone Program and moved to Beale Air Force Base. During her Military Career she was sent to various locations, including the DCGS headquarters at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia, an Air National Guard site in Kansas, as well as several overseas deployments. Lisa served her last active-duty assignment with the site at Beale Air Force Base in California. After her military service, she travelled to Afghanistan to see first-hand the effects of what she participated in. She has a BA in History from UC Berkeley.
Jack Poulson
Executive Director, Tech Inquiry, US
Jack Poulson is the Executive Director of the nonprofit Tech Inquiry, where he leads a project for exploring international procurement and lobbying. He was previously a Senior Research Scientist in Google's AI division and, before that, an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Stanford. He completed his PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics at UT Austin in 2012 before serving as an Assistant Professor of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech. After two years as a Research Scientist in Google’s AI division working on recommendation systems and natural language processing, he resigned in protest of the company rolling back its international human rights protections and transitioned (back) into the nonprofit sector. His work focuses on data curation of the interface between tech companies and weapons manufacturers with the U.S. government and supporting civil society and tech workers in opposing related abuses.
Naomi Colvin
Whistleblower Advocate and UK/Ireland/Belgium Programme Director at Blueprint for Free Speech, UK
Naomi Colvin is UK/Ireland/Belgium Program Director at Blueprint for Free Speech. She has a particular interest in whistleblowing as a freedom of expression issue and the intersection of digitally-mediated whistleblowing with the criminal law. Before coming to Blueprint, Naomi ran high-profile advocacy campaigns in this area. She occasionally writes for Byline Times. Naomi holds a Master's Degree in European Political Economy and an undergraduate degree in Russian Studies, both from the London School of Economics.
Joana Moll
Artist and Researcher, Professor of Networks, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, ES/DE
Joana Moll is an artist and researcher from Barcelona. Her main research topics include Internet materiality, surveillance, social profiling and interfaces. She has lectured, performed and exhibited her work in different museums, art centers, universities, festivals and publications around the world. Furthermore she is the co-founder of the Critical Interface Politics Research Group at HANGAR [Barcelona] and co-founder of The Institute for the Advancement of Popular Automatisms. She is currently a visiting lecturer at Universität Potsdam (DE), Escola Elisava (ES) and Escola Superior d’Art de Vic (ES).
Jesselyn Radack
Head of the Whistleblower and Source Protection Program WHISPeR at ExposeFacts, US
Jesselyn Radack heads the Whistleblower and Source Protection Program (WHISPeR) at ExposeFacts. Radack has been at the forefront of challenging the U.S. government’s unprecedented war on whistleblowers, which has become a war on journalists. Radack has represented dozens of national security employees who have been prosecuted under the Espionage Act for allegedly mishandling classified information, including Daniel Hale, Edward Snowden, Thomas Drake, and John Kiriakou. Ms. Radack has testified before the U.S. Congress, European Parliament, Council of Europe and Germany’s Bundestag. The author of TRAITOR: The Whistleblower & the “American Taliban,” Ms. Radack has written prominent opinion pieces and academic articles, and was named one of Foreign Policy magazine’s “Leading Global Thinkers of 2013.”
Thomas Drake
Whistleblower, former Senior Executive at the National Security Agency, US
Thomas Drake is a former senior executive at the National Security Agency. While there he blew the whistle on 9/11 intelligence failures, massive multi-billion fraud, waste and abuse as well as a secret mass surveillance regime authorized by President Bush that violated the Constitution. The latter resulted in Mr. Drake indicted under the draconian Espionage Act facing decades in prison. He went free in a plea deal. Prior to NSA he was a consultant/contractor and boutique dot com principal in management and information technology. He also served as an enlisted aircrew member in the Air Force and as a commissioned intelligence officer in the Navy across some 15 years and a short stint as an intelligence analyst at the CIA. He has dedicated the rest of his life to defending our rights, personal privacy and the pursuit of all things good in humanity against the abuse of power.
Lucy Suchman
Professor Emerita, Lancaster University, UK/CA
Lucy Suchman is a Professor of the Anthropology of Science and Technology at Lancaster University in the UK. Before taking up her present post she was a Principal Scientist at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where she spent twenty years as a researcher. During this period she was became widely recognized for her critical engagement with artificial intelligence (AI), as well as her contributions to a deeper understanding of both the essential connections and the profound differences between humans and machines.
Lucy is the author of Human-Machine Reconfigurations (2007) and Plans and Situated Actions: the problem of human-machine communication (1987), both published by Cambridge University Press. She was a founding member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, and served on its Board of Directors from 1982-1990. In 2002 she received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Sciences, in 2010 the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) Lifetime Research Award, and in 2014 the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Bernal Prize for Distinguished Contributions to the Field. She was President of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) during 2016 and 2017. In April of 2016 she was an expert panelist at the UN’s Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), as a member of ICRAC.
Sophia Goodfriend
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative, Journalist, +972 Magazine, IL
Sophia Goodfriend is an incoming Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative. Currently based in Tel Aviv, her academic work examines the ethics and impact of new surveillance technologies. Alongside her academic work, she work as an independent researcher with civil society organizations in the region and as a freelance journalist. Her writing on warfare, automation, and digital rights has appeared in Foreign Policy, The Baffler, +972 Magazine, The Boston Review, among other outlets. She has a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University.
Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud
Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, NO
Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud holds an PhD in War Studies from King’s College London and an MA in Security Policy Studies from The George Washington University. His research interests include contemporary Western warfare, war and technology, military theory and operational thinking and practice, critical IR theories and Science and Technology Studies.
Elke Schwarz
Associate Professor, Queen Mary University London, UK
Elke Schwarz is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at Queen Mary University London (QMUL) and Director of TheoryLab at QMUL’s School of Politics and International Relations. Her research focuses on the intersection of ethics, war, and technology, especially in connection with autonomous or intelligent military technologies and their impacts on contemporary warfare. She is the author of Death Machines: The Ethics of Violent Technologies (Manchester University Press, 2018), and her work has been published in a range of journals across the fields of security studies, philosophy, military ethics, and international relations.
Marijn Hoijtink
Associate Professor, University of Antwerp, BE
Marijn Hoijtink is Associate Professor in International Relations at the Department of Political Science at the University of Antwerp. Previously she was Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam. Her research and teaching focuses on military technology, militarism and the changing character of warfare. In her current research project, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), she examines military applications of artificial intelligence (AI), with a particular interest in how these technologies shape the way in which warfare is thought, fought and lived.
Shona Illingworth
Artist, Filmmaker, Professor of Art, Film, and Media, University of Kent, UK
Shona Illingworth is an artist filmmaker whose major works take the form of immersive gallery based multi-screen video and multi-channel sound installation. Her work combines interdisciplinary research (particularly with emerging neuropsychological models of memory and amnesia, critical approaches to memory studies, media sociology and human rights law) with socially engaged practice.Her work has been exhibited internationally, with shows at the Imperial War Museum, London; Museum of Modern Art, Bologna; FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool; UNSW Galleries, Sydney and the Wellcome Collection, London. She has received commissions from Film and Video Umbrella, Hayward Gallery, London, and Channel 4 Television. Upcoming solo exhibitions include the Bahrain National Museum 2020 and The Power Plant, Toronto, 2021. Shona was shortlisted for the 2016 Jarman Award and is an Imperial War Museum Associate, Trustee of Project Art Works and sits on the editorial board of Digital War (digital-war.org).
Anthony Downey
Professor of Visual Culture in the Middle East and North Africa, Birmingham City University, UK
Anthony Downey is Professor of Visual Culture in the Middle East and North Africa (Birmingham City University), where his research focuses on cultural production in the Middle East and Global South, practice-based research and digital methodologies, and the politics of Artificial Intelligence (AI). He sits on the editorial boards of Third Text (Routledge), Digital War (Palgrave Macmillan), Memory, Mind & Media (Cambridge University Press), and is the series editor for Research/Practice (Sternberg Press, 2019–ongoing). From 2020, Downey has been the Cultural Lead on a four-year multi-disciplinary AHRC Network Plus award, which is designed to support collaborative cultural practices and the expansion of educational provision for people with disabilities in Lebanon, the occupied Palestinian territories, and Jordan. Recent and upcoming publications include Trevor Paglen: Adversarial Hallucinations (Sternberg Press & MIT, 2024); Khalil Rabah: Falling Forward—Works 1995- 2025 (Sharjah Art Foundation and Hatje Cantz, 2023); and Shona Illingworth: Topologies of Air (Sternberg Press & The Power Plant, 2022). In 2025, he will publish Decolonising Vision: Algorithmic Anxieties and the Future of Warfare.
Matt Mahmoudi
Head of the Silicon Valley Initiative at Amnesty International, Incoming Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities, University of Cambridge, UK
Matt is a Researcher on Artificial Intelligence & Human Rights at Amnesty International, and incoming Assistant Professor at Cambridge’s Department of Sociology. Matt was also the Program Lead at The Whistle Project, a digital human rights platform based out of the Department of Sociology. He is particularly interested in the possibilities and challenges these present for refugees and migrants. Matt co-convenes the ‘Power and Vision: The Camera as Political Technology’ research group at CRASSH, and coordinates the Cambridge branch of Amnesty International’s Digital Verification Corps. He is the recipient of an MPhil from Cambridge, and a BA in Politics with Business Management from Queen Mary University of London. Matt co-produces ‘Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast’, and has contributed and advised on several other projects including Africa’s Voices Foundation, Rift Valley Institute, the UN OHCHR, and Global Rights Nigeria.
Khalil Dewan
PhD Nomos Fellow in Law at SOAS University of London, UK
Khalil Dewan is a PhD Nomos Fellow in Law at SOAS, University of London. His experience includes advising NATO's Counter Improvised Explosive Devices Centre of Excellence (C-IED COE), US Military Commission Trials, and assisting ICC and Universal Jurisdiction submissions related to international law. He has conducted field research on US, UK and France’s Drone Warfare in Syria, Somalia, and Mali. Personnel from the US Air Force (USAF) and British Royal Air Force (RAF) have been interviewed by him. Expert Evidence was requested from Khalil by the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Drones and Modern Conflict. The US Army War College Quarterly and Oxford Research Group have also cited his works. Khalil holds an LLM in International Law focusing on US drone targeting.
Matthias Monroy
Editor of the German civil rights journal Bürgerrechte & Polizei/CILIP and nd.Der Tag, DE
Matthias Monroy is the editor of the German civil rights journal Bürgerrechte & Polizei/CILIP and nd.Der Tag. After witnessing and experiencing military and police repression in the 1990’s, Monroy focuses on policing in the European Union, migration control, internet monitoring, surveillance and interception technologies, police gadgets, satellite intelligence and drones. He has written for several newspapers and online-media like netzpolitik.org.
Jutta Weber
Professor for Media, Culture & Society, Paderborn University, DE
Jutta Weber is a science & technology studies scholar and professor of media, culture & society at the Institute of Media Studies at Paderborn University (DE). Her research focuses on computational technoscience culture(s) asking how and for whom the non/human actors work. She is currently leading two BMBF research networks: ‘Meaningful Human Control. Autonomous Weapon Systems between Reflection and Regulation' (MEHUCO) as well as ‘Being Tagged’: The digital reorganisation of the world (Ubitag). She has been a visiting professor i.a. at the Universities of Uppsala, Twente, Vienna. Selected publications: Autonomous Drone Swarms and the Contested Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence. Digital War, Vol. 5 (1), 2024, 146–149; Technosecurity Cultures. Special Issue of ‘Science as Culture’. Vol. 29(1), March 2020 (ed. together with Katrin Kämpf); Human-Machine Autonomies. In: Nehal Bhuta et al. (Eds.): Autonomous Weapon Systems. Cambridge 2016, 75-102 (with Lucy Suchman); Keep Adding. Kill Lists, Drone Warfare and the Politics of Databases. In: Environment and Planning D. Society and Space, Vol. 34(1) 2016, 107-125.
Tatiana Bazzichelli
Director, Disruption Network Institute, Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE
Tatiana Bazzichelli is founder and director at Disruption Network Lab. Her focus of work is whistleblowing, network culture, art, and hacktivism. She is author of the books Whistleblowing for Change (2021), Networked Disruption (2013), Disrupting Business (2013), and Networking (2006). In 2011-2014 she was programme curator at transmediale festival in Berlin. She received a PhD degree in Information and Media Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Aarhus University in Denmark in 2011. Her PhD research, Networked Disruption: Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social Networking, was the result of her 2009 visiting scholarship at the H-STAR Institute of Stanford University. In 2019-2021 she was appointed jury member for the Capital Cultural Fund by the German Federal Government and the city of Berlin, and in 2020-2023 jury member for the Kulturlichter prize, a new award for digital cultural education in Germany.
