Transborder Immigrant Tool (Arte util)
- Label
- Transborder Immigrant Tool (Arte util)
- Principal Link
- www.arte-util.org
- Description
- Researchers, new media artists, and co-founders of the Electronic Disturbance Theater/b.a.n.g. lab, Ricardo Dominguez and Brett Stalbaum, together with a wider team of poets and professors, devised the Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT) to improve the odds of a safe crossing of the Mexico U.S. border. Thousands of people have died in their journey, mostly due to its vertiginous and deserted geography. The TBT consists of a GPS system (in this case, standing for Geo Poetic System) with 24 hours of experimental poetry aimed at providing not only inspiration for survival, but also information on food/water caches, security activities, and directions to potentially safer routes. Its simple, user-friendly interface is designed as an easy hack to low-cost cell phones.
- Creators
- Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) 2.0/B.A.N.G. Lab, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Ricardo Dominguez, Brett Stalbaum, Micha Cardenas, Amy Sara Carroll, and Elle Mehrmand (the artists)
- Contact Information
- rrdominguez@ucsd.edu
- www.facebook.com
- Status
- inactive