Ricardo Dominguez is a cofounder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), a group who developed Virtual-Sit-In technologies in 1998 in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. He was codirector of The Thing (http://www.thing.net), an ISP for artists and activists from 2000 to 2004, as well as senior editor from 1996 to 1999. He is a former member of Critical Art Ensemble. Ricardo's performances have been presented in museums, galleries, theater festivals, hacker meetings, tactical media events, and as direct actions on the streets and around the world. His recent Electronic Disturbance Theater project with Brett Stabaum, Micha Cardenas, and Jason Najarro (�The Transborder Immigrant Tool� - a GPS cell phone safety net tool for crossing the Mexico/U.S. border) was the winner of the Transnational Communities Award. He is an assistant professor at UCSD in the visual arts department and is also a principal/principle investigator at the new edge technology institute CALIT2 (http://www.calit2.net) where he will be researching and developing a performance project in collaboration with artists Diane Ludin, Nina Waisman, and Amy Sara Carroll on nanotechnology entitled �Particles of Interest: Tales of the Matter Market� (http://pitmm.net) that was presented in Berlin (2007) and the San Diego Museum of Art (2008).