[spectre] Global Positioning: An Interview with Ricardo Dominguez.

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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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