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Global Positioning: An Interview with Ricardo Dominguez.
By Lawrence Bird.
The Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT) is a hand-held device to aid
crossers of the Mexico-US border. A project created by the University of
California at San Diego’s Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT)
2.0/b.a.n.g. lab, and still evolving today.
Here Ricardo Dominguez, co-founder of EDT (with Brett Stalbaum),
Principal Investigator of b.a.n.g. lab, and Associate Professor in the
Visual Arts Department at UCSD, discusses the project with Lawrence
Bird. The interview includes input from other members of the collective:
Brett Stalbaum, Micha Cardenas, Amy Sara Carroll and Elle Mehrmand.
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/global-positioning-interview-ricardo-dominguez
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).
Lawrence has trained in social urban design (MSc City Design, LSE),
phenomenology (PhD, History & Theory of Architecture, McGill). Bird is a
designer, instructor and writer with an interest in cities and their
image. He has been trained in social science-based urban design (MSc),
and in the phenomenology of cinematic architecture (PhD). He's currently
working on the postdoctoral project Beyond the Desert of the Real, based
in Winnipeg, Canada. The project asks for visual narratives from city
residents in response to desolate urban sites, experiments with
representations of the city based on these narratives, and uses these
strategies as points of departure for urban design and urban landscape
proposals. He also makes films, and is currently developing a hybrid
film and animation project WPG_POV. SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow University
of Manitoba Faculty of Architecture.
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