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rrdominguez@ucsd.edu
Biography:
Ricardo Dominguez is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater
(EDT), a group who developed Virtual-Sit-In technologies in 1998 in
solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. He is
co-Director of Thing (thing.net) an ISP for artists and activists. His
recent Electronic Disturbance Theater project with Brett Stabaum, Micha
Cardenas and Amy Sara Carroll the *Transborder Immigrant Tool* (a GPS
cellphone safety net tool for crossing the Mexico/U.S border was the
winner of "Transnational Communities Award", this award was funded by
*Cultural Contact*, Endowment for Culture Mexico - U.S. and handed out by
the U.S. Embassy in Mexico), also funded by CALIT2 and two Transborder
Awards from the UCSD Center for the Humanities. Ricardo is an Assistant
Professor at UCSD in the Visual Arts Department, a Hellman Fellow, and
Principal/Principle Investigator at CALIT2 (http://bang.calit2.net). He
also co-founder of *particle group* with artists Diane Ludin, Nina
Waisman, Amy Sara Carroll a gesture about nanotechnology entitled
*Particles of Interest: Tales of the Matter Market* (http://pitmm.net)
that was presented in Berlin (2007), the San Diego Museum of Art (2008),
Oi Futuro, and FILE festivals in Brazil (2008). Find a recent video:
(nano_Garage(s): Speculations about (Open Fabbing)
http://medialab-prado.es/article/nanogarajes_especulaciones_sobre_fabbing_abierto
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