Artist:
Ricardo Dominguez |
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| Statement: |
FadeFoward
is a series of photographs and text from different Zapatistas
events
and actions during the last 3 years. The text is from poems,
statements and
interviews dealing the issue of indigenous autonomy in Chiapas,
Mexico during
since 2000. The text is presented in an automated manner
to simulate a silent
film from the future and the images must be found and touched
with the mouse in
order for them to emerge and fadeout on the screen.
FadeFoward ends with the silent film becoming sound film
about a new
recombinant
reality beyond the Forth World War.
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| Bio: |
Ricardo Dominguez
is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater
(EDT), the group that developed Virtual-Sit In technologies
in 1998 in
solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico.
(www.thing.net/~rdom) He is co-Director
of The Thing (bbs.thing.net). He is a former member of Critical
Art
Ensemble (1987 to 1994), the originators of the theory of
Electronic Civil
Disobedience). He recently presented a 12 hour streaming
media net.performance
with Coco Fusco, entitled “Dolores from 10h to 22h” from
Finnish Museum of
Contemporary Art, Kiasma, in Helsinki (www.kiasma.fi/ars/dolores),
2002.
Ricardo was a Fakeshop Worker from 1997 to 2000 (www.fakeshop.com),
a hybrid performance group, that was one of the first net.art
projects
presented at the Whitney Biennial 2000. Dominguez has collaborated
on a number of international net_art projects: among them
are Dollspace,
produced with Francesca da Rimini (www.thing.net/~dollyoko),
and the
Somatic_Architecture Project with Diane Ludin (www.thing.net/~diane),
he is also an OS_slave for i_drunners (a Mistresses of Technology
Project)– (www.idrunners.net). He
has also collaborated with Jennifer and Kevin
Mccoy (www.airworld.net) on a number of projects, and participated
in "The Warhol Hijack" with the Verbal group (NYC).
Ricardo is also
founding member of nettime latino (nettime.org). He presented
EDT's SWARM action at Ars Electronica's InfoWar Festival
in
1998 (Linz, Austria). His first digital zapatismo project
took place
in 1996 - 97, a three month RealVideo/Audio network project:
The Zapatista/Port Action at (MIT) with Ron Rocco. His
essays have appeared at Ctheory (www.ctheory.org) and in
"
Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas," (Routledge,
2000),
edited by Coco Fusco. He edited EDT's forthcoming book
“
Hacktivism: network_art_activism”, (Autonomedia Press,
2003). |
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