Fran Ilich’s hedge fund Diego de la Vega

Fran Ilich

http://sabotage.tv/

http://diegodelavega.net/

Radical Tactical Media Company, temporarily located in a garage in the city of Tijuana, Baja California, with an aim for mobility seeks capitalist partners who wish to invest in a cooperative utopian experiment based on digital Maoism.

(from Wikipedia)
Fran Ilich also known as Diego de la Vega or Ilich Sabotage is a Tijuana born, cyberpunk writer and media artist/activist. During the early nineties was involved with Contra-Cultura (menor) and the independent media scene in Tijuana, where he was known to be an eclectic producer working with literature, photography, comics, videofilms and electronic music. Because of this was identified as part of the Generation X mexican literature, with other writers like Guillermo Fadanelli, Rafa Saavedra & Nahief Yeyha.
In 1995 he started publishing Cinem‡tik, a printed tabloid dealing with urban electronic culture. In 1996 he was screenwriter for Discovery Channel Interacci—n, a show produced by Beatriz Acevedo. In 1997 he published Metro-Pop, a novel. In 1998 he was signed by Digital Entertainment Network as creator for a series of 6 minute show, targeting young latin audience, however the series never got produced as the multimedia dot-com company and internet pioneer went bankrupt. The same year along with other members of Laboratorios Cinem‡tik was involved in producing Cinem‡tik 1.0, a festival considered to be the 1st cyberculture festival in Latin America. In 1999 he distanced from what became the Nortec sound and moved to Berlin where he got more involved with the Nettime scene, collaborating with Florian Schneider, Geert Lovink, Natalie Bookchin, Pit Schultz, Ricardo Dominguez and Alexei Shulgin.
In the year 2000 he initiated the Borderhack festival in the mexican side of the Tijuana-San Diego borderwall, and moved to Mexico City to become an editor for the magazine Sputnik Cultura Digital. In 2002, he worked as a researcher for Centro Multimedia del Centro Nacional de las Artes. In 2003 & 2004 he directed seminars of narrative media for Universidad Internacional de Andaluc’a, in Seville, while being enrolled as a student of Latin American Studies at Alliant International University. In 2005 after the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle meetings in Chiapas with Subcomandante Marcos and EZLN, launched the autonomous server possibleworlds.org.
In 2007 the magazine he edited, Sab0t, was presented at Documenta 12 magazines.[1] Since then he has worked at the Fiction Department (Departamento de Ficci—n) of Tijuana Media Lab, focusing on the theory and practice of narrative media. His latest novel is Tekno Guerrilla, which is about existential crisis and the days of the HEM (Hecho En MŽxico) graffiti crew in Tijuana.