(USA, 1959) He is co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theatre (EDT), a group who developed Virtual-Sit-In technologies in 1998 in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, México. He is co-Director of Thing (thing.net), an ISP for artists and activists. His recent Electronic Disturbance Theatre projects with Brett Stabaum, Micha Cárdenas, Amy Sara Carroll, and Elle Merhmand, the Transborder Immigrant Tool (a GPS cellphone safety net tool for crossing the Mexico/U.S. border was winner of the “Transnational Communities Award”, this award was funded by “Cultural Contract”, Endowment for Culture Mexico-U.S and handed out by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico), also funded by CALIT2 and tow Transborder Awards from the UCSD Center for the Humanities.  

Ricardo is an Associate Professor at UCSD in the Visual Arts Department, a Hellman Fellow, and Principal/Principle investigator at CALIT 2 (bang.calit2.net) and the Performative Nano-Robotics Lab at SME, UCSD. He is also co-founder of “particle group” with artists Diane Ludin, Nina Waisman, and Amy Sara Carroll. One of the group’s projects on nanotechnology, Particles of Interest: Tales of the Matter Market (pitmm.net), was presented in Berlin (2007), the San Diego Museum of Art (2008), Oi Futuro (¿?), and FILE festivals in Brazil (2008). Find a recent video for the Madrid MediaLab: (nano_Garage(s): Speculations about (Open Fabbing) was presented at CONTROverse: Contemporary Visions of the US-Mexico Border at Southwestern College Art Gallery, California (2010). With EDT/b.a.n.g. he exhibited Transborder Immigrant Tool at the 2010 California Biennial (2010); Un marco modular, Centro Cultural de España, El Salvador (2010); and Here Not There: Art in San Diego Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA (2010).