Forwarded from a mail by micha cardenas to the netbehaviour list - please repost widely & also donate, if you can!
michael
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Please pass this information on. We can't use our blogs because
they're on our server on the university networks, so if you can mirror
this call, we'd appreciate it…
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From: Fred Lonidier <[email protected]>
Date: 2010/7/8
Subject: Donate to the Ricardo Dominguez/b.a.n.g. lab Legal Support Fund
To:
Cc: [email protected]
Please Pass Forward:
Dear Communities of Support,
The "investigations" by University of California San Diego/University of
California of Office of the President of professor Ricardo Dominguez and
Electronic Disturbance Theater/b.a.n.g lab's performances and projects
continues. The cost of legal support is growing and we would appreciate
your economic support.
To donate to our legal action fund please click here:
http://banglabinexile.pbworks.com/Donate-to-the-Ricardo-Dominguez-Legal-Support-Fund
Thanks to all the communities who have already supported the legal support
fund in spirit and funds.
To learn more about the "investigations" and support for Professor Ricardo
Dominguez and Electronic Disturbance Theater/b.a.n.g lab click here read
and watch these news reports about the "investigations":
Digital Zapatismo and the Threatened Persecution of Prof. Ricardo
Dominguez (UCSD)
by John Armenta:
http://thevirtualcampfire.org/garibaldi/2010/05/ricardo-dominguez
UC San Diego professor who studies disobedience gains followers - and
investigators By Richard Marosi, Los Angeles Times:
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/07/local/la-me-ucsd-professor-20100507-53
Ucsd Hacktivism "Affective - Not Effective!" - Fox News Video:
http://bang.calit2.net/2010/05/ucsd-hacktivism-fox-news-eeek/
Letters of support:
Open letter from the Visual Arts Department (UCSD)
http://bang.calit2.net/2010/05/letter-of-support-visual-arts-department-ucsd/
Open letter from the UCSD Faculty Coalition:
http://bang.calit2.net/2010/04/ucsd-faculty-coalition-letter-to-svc-drake/
Letter Of Support Started At Duke University:
http://bang.calit2.net/2010/04/letter-of-support-started-at-duke-university/
Many other letters of support can be found at:
http://bang.calit2.net
Petition:
Stop the De-tenuring of Ricardo Dominguez
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-the-de-tenuring-of-ricardo-dominguez
Thank you so very much for your continued support.
Abrazos,
Ricardo Dominguez, Electronic Disturbance Theater/b.a.n.g lab
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Ricardo Dominguez
Associate Professor
Hellman Fellow
"Another University is Possible"
Visual Arts Department, UCSD
http://visarts.ucsd.edu/
Principal Investigator, CALIT2
http://calit2.net
Co-Chair gallery@calit2
http://gallery.calit2.net
CRCA Researcher
http://crca.ucsd.edu/
Ethnic Studies Affiliate
http://www.ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/
Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies Affiliate
http://cilas.ucsd.edu
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics,
Board Member
http://hemi.nyu.edu
University of California, San Diego,
9500 Gilman Drive Drive,
La Jolla, CA 92093-0436
Phone: (619) 322-7571
e-mail: [email protected]
Project sites:
site: http://bang.calit2.net
site: http://gallery.calit2.net
site: http://pitmm.net
blog:http://post.thing.net/blog/rdom
site: http://www.thing.net/~rdom
–
micha cárdenas / azdel slade
Co-Author, Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs, Atropos Press, http://is.gd/daO00
Lecturer, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego
Lecturer, Critical Gender Studies Program, University of California, San Diego
Artist/Researcher, UCSD Medical Education
Artist/Theorist, bang.lab, http://bang.calit2.net
blog: http://transreal.org
Stop the Victimisation of Ricardo Dominguez
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Type: discussion
Comments
I'm a little shocked that this case hasn't aroused more comment here & more than a little disappoitnted it doesn't seem to have been covered by the Rhizome staffers, especially when I think of the generous response to the JoyWar events and to the attacks on Steve Kurtz a few years back.
The question of peer/community support aside, even *journalistically* it should surely be a major issue that someone faces loss of tenure and a possible criminal investigation over art related activities.
Here's a couple more documents that give some background to the case:
http://www.walkingtools.net/?p=437
http://www.walkingtools.net/DominguezTBT-timelineLG.png
This is as much as I know. If anyone has more recent or just more information it'd be useful to have it in the public domain…
cheers
michael
I wrote about this sometime back:
http://newmediafix.net/daily/?p=2624
I share the link as the videos and other resources mentioned should still be relevant to become initially informed.
Eduardo Navas
Thanks Eduardo!
Nope, no discussion of the Dominguez case here. If you want to see an archive of a spirited discussion and defense of bang lab's work, see the April thread on the -empyre- list (some great posts spill over into the beginning of May as well):
https://lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2010-April/thread.html
But this:
-empyre- is not a chat space, nor an announcement or self promotion list, nor online performance space, and doesn't accept HTML formatted email or attachments on the list. The facilitators reserve the right to not publish posts that disregard these guidelines, or the current month's topics, disrespect the featured guests, or monopolize the forum either via individuals or group, and may unsubscribe anyone consistently doing so.
is a price way too high to pay!
I want Rhizome, which I love dearly & perhaps too sentimentally, to do the right thing…
michael
True, but -empyre- has different goals, a different subset of participants, and, yes, different community standards. Ideally spaces like -empyre- and the old-style rhizome would flourish jointly, but given the current restrictions on posting here the full potential of cross-list continuations of discussions is not being enjoyed.
"I want Rhizome, which I love dearly & perhaps too sentimentally, to do the right thing… "
Too late…