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Mookie Tenembaum
Born in Argentina, Mookie Tenembaum is an artist, lawyer, and inventor specialized in the Web. He attended Law School at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and specialized in Anthropology at Temple University of Philadelphia. As a lawyer, he was also district attorney of the city of Jerusalem. During the 90s he decided that some of his ideas could only be created and developed through art, specially art related to new technologies. Therefore, during the past years, Mookie has concentrated specifically on reflecting on the different problems related to the State by means of creating new-media works, specially on-line pieces. Currently, Mookie is working on pieces having to do with the different social and ideological problems of Argentina, developing projects such as "Genesis", which by means of an on-line system which generates "trusts" with the status of juridical persons, it revels how the State presents "traps" in their formulation and efficiency, which are not easily readable for most citizens. With this type of projects, Mookie makes them visible, strongly criticizing the State apparatus ruling Latin America. Chasing utopic goals, with his projects Mookie proposes social reinvention and, as a consequence, refoundation. His compasses in this goal are George Orwell, J.J. Rousseau, and John Locke's theories, as well as minarchist ideas. An expert on the Internet and new technologies, Mookie is a member of FiRE (Future in Review) an annual event that gathers one hundred people from all over the world to discuss the likely penetration of the latest technological innovations and their impact on a not so far away future. He also founded United Virtualities, a company of on-line systems, and created over twenty on-line technologies, such as Ooga Ooga (Explorer's tool bar), Schvitzer (an intelligent text highlighter), and Yachne (a 3D animated messenger).