electronic disturbance theater

Electronic Disturbance Theater is a group of artists who seek to explore the intersection of art and politics with politically charged digital art. This group "initiated a series of online civil disobedience acts," including using code to disable websites so that they barely function or function very slowly.

The creator of EDT first worked as a member of ACTUP, an AIDS activist organization. This was interesting to me because ACTUP is known for the scale of its political protests and for its effect on AIDS policy in the US. Knowing that the creator of EDT first participated in this large scale political movement and then became the creator of an online-based political protest organization challenges that idea that digital protests are less effective than in-person ones.