The Transborder Immigrant Tool
Date
2014
Authors
Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0
b.a.n.g. lab
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Office of Net Assessment, University of Michigan
Abstract
The Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT) by Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab is a last mile safety device designed to aid the disoriented of any nationality in a desert environment. The project’s interactive platform was developed and tested in southern California’s Anza-Borrego Desert State Park from 2009 to 2012. Its code is executable when and if one adds the coordinates of functional water caches to its poetic program. Its poetry, another executable code, comprises TBT’s desert survival series.
Description
Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab: Micha Cárdenas, Amy Sara Carroll, Ricardo Dominguez, Elle Mehrmand, and Brett Stalbaum.
Computer code: Walkingtools Laboratory (Brett Stalbaum and Jason Najarro)
Statement: Amy Sara Carroll
Poetry: Amy Sara Carroll
Poetry translations: Francheska Alers-Rojas, Julieta Aranda, Elizabeth Barrios, Iván Char-López, Orquídea Morales, Omar Pimienta, and Mary Renda
Book design: Parisa Ghaderi
ONA series coordinators: John Cheney-Lippold and Tung-Hui Hu
Keywords
desert survival, border politics, immigration politics, mobile art and resistance
Citation
Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab (2014). The transborder immigrant tool/La herramienta transfronteriza para inmigrantes. Ann Arbor, MI: Office of Net Assessment, University of Michigan.