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ELECTRONIC DISTURBANCE THEATER
(Ricardo Dominguez)
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html

Ricardo Dominguez is one of the pioneers and 'public faces' of the hacktivism, a civil disobedience intervention within the digital-scape of computer networks, which opens a new field where activist and hacker cultures can meet.

« The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) is a small group of network activists and network artists engaged in developing the theory and practice of Electronic Civil Disobedience (ECD). The group has focused its electronic actions against the Mexican and U.S. governments to draw attention to the war being waged against the Zapatistas and others in Mexico.

EDT has been working at the intersections of radical politics, recombinant networks, performance art, and software design. EDT has produced an ECD device titled FloodNet, which disturbs an opponent’s URL by flooding it with requests representing the number of those participating. EDT has been a catalyst for moving forward with ECD tactics and the emergence of Hacktivism. The Electronic Disturbance Theater has now become one of many small autonomous groups heightening and enhancing the ways and means of computerized resistance.» (from http://www.autonomedia.org)

Ricardo Dominguez is senior editor for The Thing (New York) and co-produced several net performances in collaboration with other artists like Francesca da Rimini, Diane Ludin and Coco Fusco. His articles and interviews have been extensively published on the net and he's been the editor of the book Hacktivism. Network Art Activism, published by Autonomedia Press, New York (2001).