Statement
Pages 7 & 8 -- with mistakes and comments -- from Draft Number 8 of Hacktivism: network_art_activism by the Electronic Disturbance Theater. This documents an extended_media_performance of electronic civil disobedience, from 1998 to 2001. It represents the staged performances during the last 4 years between EDT and on-line networks. Real time stagings have also been presented at the following spaces: Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria; NSA (National Security Agency); Centrum Sztuki, Warsaw; ABS No Rio (New York City); Judson Church (New York City); Forte Prenestine (Rome); Race and Technology (MIT); and Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies. Hacktivism:network_art_activism is an old media staging of new media practice.

Bio
Ricardo Dominguez is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), the group that developed Virtual-Sit In technologies in 1998 in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. He is Senior Editor of The Thing (bbs.thing.net). He is a former member of Critical Art Ensemble (1987 to 1994), the originators of the theory of Electronic Civil Disobedience. Currently he is a Fake-Fakeshop Worker (www.fakeshop.com), a hybrid performance group, presented at the Whitney Biennial 2000. Dominguez has collaborated on a number of international net_art projects: among them are "Dollspace," produced with Francesca da Rimini (www.thing.net/~dollyoko), and "The Somatic_Architecture Project" with Diane Ludin (www.thing.net/~diane), in which he is OS_slave for "I_Drunners" (a Mistresses of Technology Project). He has also collaborated with Jennifer and Kevin McCoy (www.mccoyspace.com) on a number of project, and participated in "The Warhol Hijack" with the Verbal group. He presented EDT's "SWARM" action at ARS Electronica's InfoWar Festival in 1998 (Linz, Austria). His first digital zapatismo project took place in 1996-97, a three month RealVideo/Audio network project: "The Art of the Americas" (Routledge, 2000) edited by Coco Fusco. He edited EDT's forthcoming book Hacktivism: network_art_activism (Autonomedia Press, 2001).