New Media Artist #5 Electronic Disturbance Theater

EDT are a group of activists. The Zapatista rebels of Chiapas, Mexico. They are in opposition with the Mexican government. I think reading up on this now is pretty ironic with the current situation in Mexico. Druglords are controlling much of the control country and there are rumors that if things get much worse then Mexico could be a failed state, but that is neither here nor there. The EDT is mainly concerned about government oppression. Floodnet is a downloadable java applet. The function of the program was to search for non-existent webpages on specifically targeted servers. The targeted servers were connected to popular government sites. An error message will show up on the serverLike those of the U.S. and Mexican president. The idea is that if enough people used this program to type in "bad urls" it would overload the servers. The sites that people were asked to key in were names of those killed by the Mexican Army.