performance
For the Electronic Disturbance Theater, the performance is everywhere, or rather all of the parts of the publicity, circulation, and feedback are part of the performance. This perspective is in keeping with Ricardo Dominguez's tendency to pose in front of police cars or to turn investigations of wrongdoing into seminars or perhaps laboratories. However, the pre-history and development of a project are also a part of the performance, as in this case where so much reaction has come to the idea of the project, to speculative deployments.
As this project gained media attention, it contributed to a tempest of controversy around the group, with the eye of the storm centered on Ricardo Dominguez, the most senior, most public figure of the team. The investigations would last over a year and would move from the Transborder Immigrant Tool to other hacktavist works by the artist who had earned tenure on such practice.
Ultimately, the story of these reactions, inquisitions, and calls for censure and defunding are the story of the tool itself, as each new outraged respondent had deployed his or her own version of the project, imagining it operations, and bemoaning its imagined effects on the country.
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