The Electronic Disturbance Theater was founded in 1997 by Ricardo Dominguez, Brett Stalbaum, Stefan Wray and Carmin Karasic. Taking the idea of the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, the EDT members used their real names. As a collective, they organized and programmed computer software to show their views against anti-propagandist and military actions, mobilizing micro-networks to act in solidarity by staging virtual sit-ins online and allowing the emergence of a collective presence in direct digital actions.
A second iteration of the group, called Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0, included Brett Stalbaum, Amy Sara Carroll, Elle Mehrmand, Micha Cárdenas, and Ricardo Dominguez (professor).
Subject –
This is art piece is called The Electronic Disturbance Theater it was hacktivist art project against the war in Mexico against the native people. The founders were Ricardo Dominguez, Brett Stalbaum, Stefan Wray and Carmin Karasic. The work of art was a server overload on the Pentagons website as well as the Mexican Government website and the white house website. People at home where able to download a java applet called Floodnet and do a virtual sit in and tell the applet what website to overload. Today we know this as a DDOS attack.
“The ability to neutralize practically any website on demand — what’s now commonly referred to as a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack — was a powerful new tool for global civic disobedience.”
– Colin Lecher from The Verge
Content –
The goal of this art work by this artist collective is mainly to state at the time the internet can be used as a space for peaceful nonviolent protesting. They made a stand against the US, UK, and the Mexican Government. The artist’s also could be stating a new frontier of how humans interact with civil rights putting a stronger voice to the people.
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