<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Hey everyone sorry for late reply … </font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">The transition between mycelium and performing acts within a network of activism is wonderful. For us at the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, we try to break all separations, especially that between everyday life, activism and art and its for this reason we are inspired by mycelium and use it in our work to create tools of creative disobedience against capitalism and all those who profit from the economy of death, the logic that puts life after commodities, profit before people, algorithms infront of the living relations that we all share…</font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Mycelium teaches us like Deleuze, to begin alway in the middle, to see the world as relationship, not a network of things, not a web of objects, but a rich interdependent always changing, always situated complex system from which emerges the intelligence of life… </font></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" class="">We live at the moment on the zad, 4000 acres of land squatted against an airport and its world, in france, that despite winning against the airport is now being destroyed, because as David Graeber writes (in the preface to a recent book about the zad) “ Over the past 40 years it
become an imperative of global governance to destroy any sense of
possible alternative </span><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">futures and to
stamp them out, or, when that's not possible, to make sure no one
knows about them. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The
rulers don’t mind if people say, “I hate you, I want to overthrow
you” nearly so much as they say “You guys are ridiculous and
unnecessary.” That’s why they really fear places like the zad.
For the rulers of the world, such v</span><span style="font-family: Arial;" class="">isible alternatives shatter
the sense of inevitability, that despite crisis after crisis, the
system must, necessarily be patched together in the same form. It
has become a kind of obsession to those that try to govern us, that
those who challenge existing power arrangements can never, under any
circumstances, be perceived to win..”</span></div><div class=""><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""> Below is a chapter just written by us, for the same book which comes out in france tomorrow </font><a href="http://www.editionslesliensquiliberent.fr/livre-%C3%89loge_des_mauvaises_herbes-9791020906427-1-1-0-1.html" class="">ELOGES DES MAUVAISE HERB</a><font face="Arial" class=""> h writing about what the zad has given us, by Bruno Latour, David Graeber, Vandana Shiva, Starhawk, Kristin Ross etc.. ) which might be a good way of starting a conversation about these issues… </font></p><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">FOR MORE INFO about the zad see this english language blog <a href="https://zadforever.blog/" class="">ZAD FOR EVER</a> and a long read we wrote about the violence of the evictions these last few months <a href="https://zadforever.blog/2018/04/24/the-revenge-against-the-commons/" class="">THE REVENGE AGAINST THE COMMONS </a> (also <a href="https://www.furtherfield.org/the-revenge-against-the-commons/" class="">published on further field </a>) </font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">love and rage </font></font></p><div class="">JJ</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">THE COMMONS OF RESISTANCE</font></font></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></font></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">The
police helicopter hovers above, its bone rattling clattering never
seems to stop. At night its long godlike finger of light penetrates
our cabins and farm houses. It has been so hard to sleep this last
week. Even dreaming, it seems, is a crime on the zad. And that’s
the point: these 4000 acres of autonomous territory, this zone to
defend (zad), has existed despite the state and capitalism for nearly
a decade and no government can allow such a place to flourish. All
territories that are inhabited by people who bridge the gap between
dream and action have to be crushed before their hope begins to
spread. This is why France’s most largest police operation since
May 1968<!-- http://www.letelegramme.fr/bretagne/apres-la-zad-un-dispositif-prevu-pour-tenir-le-terrain-09-04-2018-11920377.php -->,
at a cost of 400,000 euros a day, has been trying to evict us with
its 2500 gendarmes, armoured vehicles (APCs), bulldozers, rubber
bullets, drones, 200 cameras and 11,000 tear gas and stun grenades
fired since the operation began at 3.20am on the morning of the 9th
of April 2018.</font></font></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class="">
</font></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">The
state said that these would be “targeted evictions”, claiming
that there were up to 80 ‘radical’ zadists that would be hunted
down, and that the rest, the ‘good’ zadists, would have to
legalise or face the same fate. The good zadist was a caricature of
the gentle ‘neo rural farmer’ returning to the land, the bad, an
ultra violent revolutionary, just there to make trouble. Of course
this was a fantasy vision to feed the state’s primary strategy, to
divide this diverse popular movement that has managed to defeat 3
different French governments and win France’s biggest political
victory of a generation: l’abandon de l’aéroport de
Notre-Dame-des-Landes.</font></font></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class="">
</font></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">The
zad was initially set up as a protest against the building of a new
airport for the city of Nantes, following a letter by residents
distributed during a climate camp in 2009, which invited people to
squat the land and buildings: ‘because’ as they wrote ‘only an
inhabited territory can be defended’. Over the years this territory
earmarked for a mega infrastructure project, evolved into Europe’s
largest laboratory of commoning. Before the French state started to
bulldoze our homes, there were 70 different living spaces and 300
inhabitants nestled into this checkerboard landscape of forest,
fields and wetlands. Alternative ways of living with each other,
fellow species and the world are experimented with 24/7. From making
our own bread to running a pirate radio station, planting herbal
medicine gardens to making rebel camembert, a rap recording studio to
a pasta production workshop, an artisanal brewery to two blacksmiths
forges, a communal justice system to a library and even a full
scale working lighthouse – the zad has become a new commune for the
21st century. Messy and bemusing, this beautifully imperfect utopia
in resistance against an airport and its world has been supported by
a radically diverse popular movement, bringing together tens of
thousands of anarchists and farmers, unionists and naturalists,
environmentalists and students, locals and revolutionaries of every
flavour. But everything changed on the 17th of January 2018, when the
French prime minister appeared on TV to cancel the airport project
and in the same breath say that the zad, the ‘outlaw zone’ would
be evicted and law and order returned.</font></font></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class="">
</font></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">A
true culture of resistance has evolved in parallel with the zad over
the years. Not many people are psychologically or physically prepared
to fight on the barricades, but thousands are ready to give material
support in all its forms, from helping set up a medicinal herb garden
to providing free acupuncture to activists, from donating old windows
to build cabins with to teaching people how to forage mushrooms,
donating free printing services for flyers to doing the plumbing for
a new squat Sometimes a culture of resistance involves beautiful
clandestine gestures of solidarity. After the February 2014
anti-airport riots in Nantes, some municipal workers admitted to not
putting too much mortar in-between the cobblestones they were setting
back into place, ‘just in case!’ they said.</font></font></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class="">
</font></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><font class="">Every
successful movement, from the Suffragettes to the Abolition of
Slavery, had a rich culture of resistance. Everyone as important as
the other and just as heroic and as necessary as the fighters - as a
banner on the zad said: 'Pas de barricadieres sans cuisiniers' ‘There
are no women on the barricades without men in the kitchen’. </font></font>
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<font color="#000000" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">But
a culture of resistance is not just material. It needs to provide
emotional and affective support as well - and that can come through
storytelling. We need stories that remind us that resistance is never
futile, that we are part of a long history of struggle and that
everything we take for granted in this world was won through
disobedience. We need stories of shared life and interdependencies
that counteract capitalism's stories that imagine life as a
battlefield of ruthless competition. We need stories that emerge from
the bodies of those of us living the struggles directly, rather than
wait for academics and journalists to tell them for us from the
comfort of their desks and the distant safety of history.</font></font></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class="">
<font face="Arial" class=""><br class="">
</font></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><font class="">But
a culture of resistance also means opening up to those who might be
different, those that might not have the same revolutionary analysis
as us, those who some put in their box named ‘reformist’, this
is what building a composition is all about, it is how we weave a
true ecology of struggle, and this ecology brought us to live on the
zone. </font></font>
</font></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class="">
</font></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><font class="">We
had heard the stories emerging from this place, stories that had
resonances of many of the historical territorial struggles that had
built the horizons towards which our movements aspired. Echoes of the
Paris Commune of 1871, evocations of the zapatista caracoles of
Chiapas. We also had rebel friends who lived here, but most
importantly it was because it had the essential entwined strands of
DNA of any Ecology of Struggle: the yes and the no. resistance and
creation, fighting and building at the same time. We had seen so many
alternatives that refused protest and politics, becoming new start
ups, coopted by capitalism. We had suffered so many protest movements
loose their desirableness, because they had no material examples of
the future that they wanted. When the yes and the no come apart we
lose our force, we lose what gives life to rebellion, and rebellion
to life. </font></font>
</font></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class="">
</font></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">And
now that the No against the airport has won, what happens without it,
will we become a new green silicon valley ?Absolutely not. The way
to refuse this, is to strengthen our links with other movements and
to continue to transform this place into a powerful provider of a
material base that nourishes (in every way) revolutionary movements.
Without inhabiting a territory, if we are scattered again across the
country, we are nothing. The zad was always against the airport and
its world, we still have a world to win, and many worlds to resist
and refuse. But we also want to stay here becauseof something very
simple, we have fallen deeply in love. In love with the bocage, its
stories and all its forms of life, both human and non.</font></font></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class="">
</font></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><font class="">The
government wants the inhabitants of the zad to regularise themselves
one by one, to enter into the framework of law and order . “Ecology
is not Anarchy” the minister of ecological transition and
solidarity, Nicola Hulot, declared to the press following one of the
negotiations. An easy soundbite to underline this process of
regularisation, this bureaucratic truncheon that falls upon us, that
if we refuse will mean the entire zone will be destroyed by tanks and
gendarmes. But the statement shows his ignorance of the history of
ecological thinking, many of the first theoreticians were anarchists.
Élisée Reclus, world famous geographer and poet, whose beautiful
idea that humans are simply “nature becoming aware of herself,”
fought on the barricades of the 1871 Paris Commune. 19th century
geographer Peter Kropotkin, spent many years in jail and exile for
his politics, but was renowned in scientific circles as an early
champion of the idea that evolution is not all a competitive war of
“red tooth and claw” but instead involves a cooperation, what he
termed Mutual Aid. From the 1950s onwards, US political philosopher
Murray Bookchin (now best known for the influence he has on the Kurds
to build a stateless form of Municipal Confederalism, taking place in
the autonomous territory of Rojova – Northern Syria) brought
ecology and anarchy together with his concept of Social Ecology.
Humans dominate and destroy nature because we dominate ourselves. He
claimed. To avert ecological collapse we had to get rid of all
hierarchies – man over woman, old over young, white over black,
rich over poor. </font></font>
</font></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class="">
</font></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">When
we truly inhabit a place it becomes obvious that life has no control
centre, no heirachy, no chiefs or bosses, no governments or
presidents. Every form of life is a self organising form of commons –
deeply connected and interdependent, always changing, always embedded
and entangled – from the cells in your fingers to worms in your the
garden, from the trees in the forest of Rohanne to the bacteria in
your gut. As biologist and cultural theorist Andreas Weber says, all
life forms “are continuously mediating relationships among each
other – relationships that have a material side, but also always
embody meaning, a sense of living and the notion of belonging to a
place.” Every one of these relations follows one higher principle:
only behaviour which allows for the productivity and diveristy of the
entire ecosystem over the long term will survive. The more we observe
the living world in all its complexity the more we are able to
understand how to become commoners, how to truly inhabit and
understand that the separation between the individual and the whole
is a fiction.</font></font></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; widows: 0; orphans: 0" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><a name="_GoBack" class=""></a>
<font color="#000000" class=""><font class=""><span lang="en-GB" class="">To
be really free is not to be an individual able to operate free from
constraints, but to be tied to beneficial relationships with people
and habitats, relationships that feed you materially and
psychologically. Without a tie to your food – you starve, without
the tie to lovers – you sadden. We are free because we are linked.
Freedom is not breaking our chains but turning them into living roots
and veins that connect, share, flow together and enable us to change
and evolve in common. </span></font></font><font class="">The
struggle for the zad is not about bringing ‘law and order’ back
to the zone, but a battle between private property and those who
share worlds, of capitalism against the commons. This is a battle for
the future, one that we cannot loose.</font></font></p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">On 9 Jun 2018, at 10:41, Shu Lea Cheang <<a href="mailto:shulea@earthlink.net" class="">shulea@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:</font></div><font face="Arial" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></font><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">dear all<br class=""><br class="">It seems like our week1 focus on Mycelium network is just heating up, i am sure we will be coming back to reflect on mycelium's network nature...<br class=""><br class="">Now we enter rehearsal of a network - [week 2], with a focus on networked activism and performance.<br class=""><br class="">We are interested in reviewing a glory past/present/future with update on strategies of intervention including applications with social networks and analogue tactics of 'body counts matter".<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class="">I introduce the very very special guests for this week2.<br class=""><br class="">with great respect.<br class=""><br class="">sl<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""></span><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">John Jordan (UK/France)<o:p class=""></o:p></span><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""></span></font><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Labelled a "Domestic Extremist" by the police, and “a magician of rebellion” by the press, John Jordan has spent the last 25 years merging art and activism. Working in various settings from Museums to squatted social centres, International Theatre Festivals to climate camps, he Co-founded<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Reclaim the Streets</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Clown Army</i>, Co-edited<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">We Are Everywhere: the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism</i>" (Verso), and co-wrote the film/book<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Les Sentiers de l’Utopie</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Editions Zones,2012). He now co-facilitates the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination (Labofii)</i>, with Isabelle Fremeaux. Infamous for fermenting mass disobedience on bicycles, throwing snowballs at bankers, launching a rebel raft regatta to shut down a power station, running workshops in postcapitalism and refusing to be censored by the Tate Modern,<i class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>t</i>he Labofii now lives on the autonomous zone of la zad of Notre-dame-des-Landes, 'a territory lost to the republic,' according to the French government. For more info about the zad see<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class=""><a href="http://www.zadforever.blog/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">www.zadforever.blog</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); background-color: white;" class="">Nitasha Dhillon (India/USA)</span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); background-color: white;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Nitasha Dhillon is one of two artists who make up the MTL Collective, a collaboration joining research and aesthetic, theory and practice, action and organizing. With Amin Husain as MTL, they are co-founders of Tidal: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy magazine, Global Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.), the direct action arm of Gulf Labor Artist Coalition, Strike Debt and Rolling Jubilee, Direct Action Front for Palestine (DAFP), and most recently, as MTL+, Decolonize This Place, a movement space and decolonial formation in New York City that combine organizing, art, and action around five strands of struggle: Indigenous Struggle, Black Liberation, Free Palestine, Global Wage Worker, and De-Gentrification. Nitasha is currently a PhD candidate at Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class=""><o:p class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="">Ricardo Dominguez</span><span class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(USA)</span> </font></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="">Ricardo Dominguez</span><span class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), a group who developed virtual sit-in technologies in solidarity with the Zapatistas communities in Chiapas, Mexico, in 1998. His recent Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab project (</span><span class=""><a href="http://tbt.tome.press/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span class="">http://tbt.tome.press/</span></a></span><span class="">) with Brett Stalbaum, Micha Cardenas, Amy Sara Carroll, and Elle Mehrmand, the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class=""><span class="">Transborder Immigrant Tool</span></em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(a GPS cell phone safety net tool for crossing the Mexico/US border) was the 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<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class=""><span class="">Transborder Immigrant Tool</span></em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has been exhibited at the 2010 California Biennial (OCMA), Toronto Free Gallery, Canada (2011), The Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands (2013), ZKM, Germany (2013), as well as a number of other national and international venues. 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 Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, a Hellman Fellow, a Society for the Humanities Fellow at Cornell University (2018), and a Rockefeller Arts & Humanities Fellow (2019) and Principal Investigator at CALIT2/QI, 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 (2014):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class=""><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/particle-group-intro" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/particle-group-intro</a></span></span>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="">FRAUD</span><span class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(UK)<br class=""></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Arial" class=""><span class=""></span></font></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="">FRAUD</span><span class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is a <i class="">métis</i> duo of critical art practitioners. Their backgrounds include computational culture, post-colonial and critical feminism, performance, disruptive design, and space system engineering. They develop art-led inquiries into the multiple scales of power and governmentality that flow through physical and cultural landscapes. The duo focuses on critical ecologies, exploring forms of slow violence and necropolitics that are embedded in the entanglement of archiving practices and technical objects, and erasure as a disruptive technology in knowledge production. </span><span class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 13.25pt;" class=""><span class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span class=""><u class=""><span style="color: blue;" class=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fraud.la/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">http://fraud.la/</a></span></u></span><o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></div><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class=""><o:p class=""><font face="Arial" class=""> </font></o:p></span></p><font face="Arial" class=""><br style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""></span><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""></span></font><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><font face="Arial" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></font></div></blockquote></div><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font><div class="">
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