Transborder Immigrant Tool In Operation (2011) by Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab. Photograph shows working tool and screenshot from Nokia e71, directing user to a water cache in the Anza Borrego Desert. Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Wednesday, October 1, 2014, 5:30 PM | Center for Creative Photography 108
Lecture: Border Art Disturbances: Electronic Civil Disobedience and the Transborder Immigrant Tool
Ricardo Dominguez will tell tales about how the group that he co-founded, the Electronic Disturbance Theater, developed two artivist projects that confounded the performative matrix of the Mexico/U.S.border as social architecture.
Bio: 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. His recent Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab project with Brett Stabaum, Micha Cardenas, Dr. Amy Sara Carroll (University of Michigan), and Elle Mehrmand is the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a GPS cellphone safety net tool for crossing the Mexico/U.S border. Transborder Immigrant Tool was exhibited at the 2010 California Biennial (OCMA), Toronto Free Gallery, Canada (2011), and ZKM Center for Art and Media, Germany (2014). Ricardo is an Associate Professor at UC San Diego in the Visual Arts Department, a Hellman Fellow, and Principal/Principle Investigator at CALIT2 and the Performative Nano-Robotics Lab at SME, UCSD. He is also co-founder of particle group, an art project about nano-toxicology entitled Particles of Interest: Tales of the Matter Market. He has a new one-act play in The Imperial University Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent by University of Minnesota Press (2014).
