Columbia Art & Tech Lecture: Ricardo Dominguez, Weds May 12, 6pm: Hacktivism

COLUMBIA ART & TECHNOLOGY LECTURES

Dispatches from the Future: A Conversation about Hacktivism Between _Almost Me_Almost Another Me_and_Almost Not Me.

A lecture by
Ricardo Dominguez

Wednesday, May 12, 2004
6pm

Free and open to the public

Lifetime Screening Room
511 Dodge Hall
2960 Broadway, New York, NY

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.

EDT's SWARM action was presented at Ars Electronica's InfoWar Festival in 1998 (Linz, Austria). He is Senior Editor of The Thing (bbs.thing.net). Former member of Critical Art Ensemble (1987 to 1994 - developers of the theory of Electronic Civil Disobedience in the late 80's). Currently a Fake-Fakeshop Worker (www.fakeshop.com), a hybrid performance group, presented at the Whitney Biennial 2000. Ricardo has collaborated on a number of international net-art projects: with Francesca da Rimini on Dollspace and with Diane Ludin on the Aphanisis Project. His essays have appeared at Ctheory and recently in "Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas" (Routledge, 2000), edited by Coco Fusco. Editor of EDT's forthcoming book Hacktivism: network-art-activism, (Autonomedia Press, 2001). His website is http://www.thing.net/~rdom.

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