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IMMIGRATION/ART/RESISTANCE
Prof. Ricardo Domingues (UCSD Visual Arts)
Season 1 · Episode 1
Monday, November 2, 2020 • Duration 01:00:55
Ricardo Dominguez is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT).
They developed virtual sit-in technologies in solidarity with the Zapatistas communities in Chiapas, Mexico, in 1998.
With the b.a.n.g. lab, he helped create the Transborder Immigrant Tool (a GPS cell phone safety net tool for crossing the Mexico/US border) -- winner of “Transnational Communities Award” (2008), an award funded by Cultural Contact, Endowment for Culture Mexico–US and handed out by the US Embassy in Mexico. It also was funded by CALIT2 and the UCSD Center for the Humanities.
The project was also under investigation by the US Congress in 2009-2010 and was reviewed by Glenn Beck in 2010 as a gesture that potentially “dissolved” the U.S. border with its poetry. Dominguez is an associate professor at the University of California, 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 also is co-founder of *particle group*, with artists Diane Ludin, Nina Waisman, Amy Sara Carroll, whose art project about nano-toxicology entitled *Particles of Interest: Tales of the Matter Market* has been presented at the House of World Cultures, Berlin (2007), the San Diego Museum of Art (2008), Oi Futuro, Brazil (2008), CAL NanoSystems Institute, UCLA (2009), Medialab-Prado, Madrid (2009), E-Poetry Festival, Barcelona, Spain (2009), Nanosférica, NYU (2010), and SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico (2012).