Second Fellowships Round · 2025–2026
Investigating the Kill Cloud: AI, Big Tech & Migration Control
Fellows: Cian Westmoreland (Whistleblower, Former US Air Force Drone Technician, US), Namir Shabibi (Independent Investigative Journalist, UK), Tiara Roxanne (Scholar and Artist, US/DE)
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11. September 2025
New research round launched: Investigating the Kill Cloud: AI, Big Tech and Migration Control
Research Papers · November 2024
Research published by our fellows Lisa Ling, Jack Poulson, Joana Moll & Naomi Colvin.
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Die Kill Cloud · Auswirkungen der netzwerzentrierten Kriegsführung auf die reale Welt
Von Cian Westmoreland & Lisa Ling, aus Whistleblowing for Change, 2021, transcript Verlag
Research Fellows 2025–2026
Architecture of Disappearance: The Kill Cloud’s Dispersal of Violence and Erosion of Sovereignty
Cian Westmoreland · Whistleblower, Former US Air Force Drone Technician, US
Ubiquitous Surveillance: Telecoms Networks and the Ecosystem of Tech and State Crime
Namir Shabibi · Independent Investigative Journalist, UK
Automated Extraction: Tactics of Surveillance and Targeting Indigenous Peoples on the border of Mexico and the US
Tiara Roxanne · Scholar and Artist, US/DE
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The conference Investigating The Kill Cloud (29.11–1.12.2024) brought together the research fellows of the Disruption Network Institute and international experts.
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Disruption Network Institute: Investigating the Kill Cloud
A hub for investigations and empirical research on how artificial intelligence impacts new technologies of war, automated weapons, and networked warfare.
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Team
Tatiana Bazzichelli
Director, IT/DE
Tatiana Bazzichelli is founder and director at Disruption Network Lab. Her focus of work is whistleblowing and digital culture. 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 2012-2014 she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University Lüneburg. 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. Tatiana Bazzichelli is Board Chair of the Disruption Network Lab e. V.
Jonas Frankki
Creative Producer, SE/DE
Jonas is a cultural producer, graphic designer and art director with over a decade of experience in communication for non-profits, and has shaped Disruption Network Lab’s communication since its founding. Since 2014 Jonas has designed and animated the visual identity of the Disruption Network Lab and each conference, and additionally researches speakers, networks and topics for future events. In 2023 he was also Press Manager, communicating the conference contents to journalists, developing media partnerships and PR, expanding the reach of the Disruption Network Lab and its activities. Jonas was born in Sweden, studied Marketing, International Relations and Culture Management in Gothenburg. He was part of sinnwerkstatt for 10 years, one of the first media agencies dedicated to the common good, and it’s offshoot animation agency Sinnema, producing and designing campaigns for German and International NGOs. Before relocating to Berlin in the mid 2000’s he was part of the Swedish Attac movement, helping to communicate issues around fair world trade, and co-founded the media watchdog Mediekritik.nu, an early platform for crowdsourced fact checking of Swedish mainstream media.