Brett Stalbaum
ISEA Bio(s) Available:
ISEA2015
Member of The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), a small group of art activists engaged in developing the theory and practice of Electronic Civil Disobedience. The founding members are Ricardo Dominguez, Carmin Karasic, Brett Stalbaum, and Stefan Wray. EDT is recognized as one of the first small autonomous groups working to popularize digital resistance, working at the intersections of radical politics, global performance art, and web design.
ISEA2011
Brett Stalbaum (UC, San Diego) is coordinator of the ICAM major at the Visual Arts Department. A serial collaborator, he was a founding member of the information theory/art corporation C5 in 1997, and the Electronic Disturbance Theater in 1998. With EDT he co-developed electronic civil disobedience software called FloodNet, which has been used on behalf of the Zapatista movement against the websites of the Presidents of Mexico and the United States, as well as the Pentagon. Stalbaum has been part of many other individual and collaborative projects including paintersflat and is recognized for his work in location aware media. Current collaborative projects include walkingtools.net which provides an umbrella for XML, APIs, Applications and Projects for and by walking artists, and with the CALIT2 B.A.N.G. Lab/EDT where he is the primary software developer for the Transborder Immigrant Tool project.
