TY - ART
TI - Transborder Immigrant Tool
AU - B.A.N.G. Lab
AU - Elle Mehrmand
AU - Brett Stalbahm
AU - Ricardo Dominguez
AU - Amy Sara Carroll
AU - micha cárdenas
AU - Julieta Aranda
AU - Tung-Hui Hu
AU - John Cheney-Lippold
AU - Parisa Ghaderi
AU - Mary Renda
AU - Omar Pimienta
AU - Orquídea Morales
AU - Iván Chaar-López
AU - Elizabeth Barrios
AU - Francheska Alers-Rojas
AU - Natasha Hakimi Zapata
AU - Jason Najarro
AB - <p>"Various individuals and collectives contributed their talents and goodwill toward the completion of this volume."&nbsp;</p><p>"The <em>Transborder Immigrant Tool</em> is an activist work of politically-charged poetics: a mobile application that combines poetry with a tool to help immigrants crossing the border between Mexico and the US find water in the desert of Southern California. The app was designed to rely on GPS and cracked cell phones, making it as accessible as possible to the target audience of individuals risking their lives to cross the potentially deadly border. The 'survival poetry' collected here is as provocative as the application's functionality, and when first released the <em>TBT</em> immediately attracted attention and criticism from a number of anti-immigrant political groups, law enforcement, and mainstream news organizations. Driven by a radical philosophy of 'electronic civil disobedience,' the piece deploys not locative media, but what Ricardo Dominguez has called 'dislocative media' to produce a poetics that challenges borders and connects with often overlooked bodies." -- from <em>Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3</em></p>
C3 - Web
PY - 2007
LA - English, Spanish
M3 - Executable, Locative, Mobile, Audiovisual, Poetry, Tool
UR - https://the-next.eliterature.org/works/823/0/0/
DB - The NEXT
Y2 - 2025-04-03
ER -