Ricardo Dominguez (artist and professor)

Ricardo Dominguez (born 1959) is an American artist, professor and chair of the visual arts department at UC San Diego.

[1][2] Dominguez, the founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater, has organized "virtual sit-ins" that attempted to overload and crash websites,[3][4] for which he and his co-founder developed a program called FloodNet that automatically requests the target page over and over.

[1][5] It also raises awareness about the number of people who die in the U.S.-Mexico border region and aims to rethink the ways in which "immigrants are always presented as less-than-human and certainly not part of a community which is establishing and inventing new forms of life.

[8] He was also co-founder of *particle group* with artists Diane Ludin, Nina Waisman, Amy Sara Carroll reflecting on nanotechnology in work *Particles of Interest: Tales of the Matter Market*, presented in Berlin (2007), the San Diego Museum of Art (2008), Oi Futuro, and FILE festivals in Brazil (2008).

I maintain an open dialogue with all the students about any concerns or questions they may have both individually or as a group during every 3 hour class (which meets twice a week).