Ricardo Dominguez

Ricardo Dominguez is a cofounder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater 1.0 (EDT), a group that developed Virtual-Sit-In technologies in 1998 in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. With Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 (Brett Stalbaum, dr. micha cárdenas, Dr. Amy Sara Carroll, and Elle Mehrmand) he created the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a GPS cellphone safety net tool for crossing the Mexico–U.S. border. As part of EDT 2.0 he was a UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy Fellow (2021). EDT 3.0 was part of the MexiCali Biennial (2023): https://calexicochronicle.com/2023/10/31/mexicali-biennial-opens-land-of-milk-honey-in-the-borderlands/ and in 2024 he performed in the Fringe Festival in Edinburg, Scottland, with Amy Sara Carroll and Césaire Carroll-Dominguez. Ricardo is also a professor in the Department of Visual Arts and a Principal Investigator at CALIT2/QI at UCSD.

Submissions

The Other Balcony per Genet
(a scene without distance)

We Balconies will continue to sing our endless songs, our revolutionary shouts and pings: “Other worlds are possible even in impossible times!”