Medialab Prado

Co-founder 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 co-Director of The Thing (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. His recent Electronic Disturbance Theater project with Brett Stabaum, Micha Cárdenas and Jason Najarro the *Transborder Immigrant Tool* (a GPS cellphone safety net tool for crossing the Mexico/U.S border was the winner of "Transnational Communities Award", this award was funded by *Cultural Contact*, Endowment for Culture Mexico - U.S. and handed out by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico. 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 (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* (pitmm.net) that was presented in Berlin (2007), the San Diego Museum of Art (2008) and the CaliforniaNanoSystems Institute (2009).