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Pratt Industrial Design students collaborate with Herman Miller

Undergraduate and graduate industrial design students from Pratt Institute, who participated in an intensive, year-long collaboration with Herman Miller to design furniture that promotes physical and mental well-being, will present an exhibition of work as part of the 24th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) from May 19–22, 2012, at New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center at 655 West 34th Street in Manhattan. Pratt was one of six international design schools selected to exhibit at this year's show by GLM, the producer and manager of the ICFF. This is the fourth consecutive year that Pratt was selected to exhibit.

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Papers

FloodNet, Electronic Disturbance Theatre, Web Screen Shot, 2012

Network Architecture and Electronic Civil Disobedience: Electronic Disturbance Theatre and Transversals of Rhizomatic Resistance

Dorian Batycka

This insurrectionary essay deals with forms of Electronic Civil Disobedience (ECD) paying close attention to the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) and Electronic Disturbance Theatre (EDT) and the development of FloodNet software in solidarity with the Zapatista uprisings in Chiapas, Mexico, in the mid 1990s. From here, this essay steps back to examine the Internet from a multitude of different perspectives, destabilizing traditional narratives situating its emergence via Tim Berners-Lee and Leonard Kleinrock, instead, suggesting the Internet is best conceptualized via the image of the network in the popular imaginary, developed by those such as Buckminster Fuller, Steward Brand and the Situationist International. The concept of the ‘network’ thus informs the second portion of this essay, situating the Internet and the praxis of Critical Art Ensemble within an ontological framework largely developed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.