Transborder Immigrant Tool

"Various individuals and collectives contributed their talents and goodwill toward the completion of this volume." 

"The Transborder Immigrant Tool 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 TBT 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 Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3