hola all,
i like list servs! and i am quiet glad to see thingist jumping around my screenal spaces. seems like only a few lifetimes ago that i was playing with the old ipad and answering the telephone early in the mornings like a robot to scare folks at the thing office in chelsea (back when the hookers and cops were still enjoying life on 23rd street) perhaps they are back now!? (we need to put up that old thing.cam back on). i look forward to whatever strange flowers may grow from the shoeless futures to come - the sleepers awaken!
as for me...lots of old stuff and lots of new stuff...at the edges of the sea and borders under the perfect sun...not just a touch evil here...but a big hand full.
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 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 Associate Professor at UCSD in the Visual Arts Department, a Hellman Fellow, and Principal/Principle Investigator at CALIT2 (bang.calit2.net). He also co-founder of *particle group* with artists Diane Ludin, Nina Waisman, Amy Sara Carroll who focus on nano-toxicology and the economic flows of nanotechnology - our project is entitled *Particles of Interest: Tales of the Matter Market* (pitmm.net) and we have presented in Berlin (2007), the San Diego Museum of Art (2008), Oi Futuro, Brazil (2008), and CAL NanoSystems Institute UCLA (2009).
- - - +++ Ricardo Dominguez Associate Professor Hellman Fellow
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: rrdominguez@ucsd.edu
Project sites: site: http://gallery.calit2.net site: http://pitmm.net site: http://bang.calit2.net site: http://www.thing.net/~rdom blog:http://post.thing.net/blog/rdom