[-empyre-] what is to be done?--introducing Ricardo Rosas

[Christina McPhee <christina112@earthlink.net>]

hi empyre,

please welcome Ricardo Rosas, who comes to us from Rizoma, his Sao  
Paulo based online magazine.



Ricardo Rosas was born in Fortaleza , Brazilian Northeast but lives  
in São Paulo since 1990. He´s a writer, translator, theorist and  
organizes festivas concerning media activism and tactical media in  
Brazil . Editor of the Rizoma e-magazine and a former member of the  
Midiatatica.org network, Rosas helped organize the Mídia Tática  
Brasil 2003  and the Digitofagia 2004 festivals in São Paulo, both of
them aimed at discussing the tactical media scene, free software,  
and  the creation of collaborative projects in art and activism  
involving new media. Rosas was the Net Art curator of the Prog: Me  
festival, in Rio de Janeiro (2005); and a lecturer at the fourth  
edition of the Next 5 Minutes festival, in Amsterdam (2003), the  
first international event dedicated to the mapping of tactical media.  
He also participated
in the Super Demo Digital festival in Rio de Janeiro (2004); in the  
Networks, Arts, a Collaboration conference at the State University  
of  New York, in Buffalo (2004); and in the 15th Videobrasil  
International
Electronic Art Festival. Rizoma, his edited website on arts and  
activism is currently taking part on the Documenta project of  
publications for the Documenta 2007.


Thanks for joining us, Ricardo............


cm