[sudo-discuss] transborder immigrant tool (TBT) -> undocumented immigrant mobile phone app art project

[Romy Ilano]

One of the most well done usability mobile phone apps I've ever seen. Some
artist academics created a feature phone mobile app for undocumented
immigrants on the San Diego/Tijuana desert border.

It was a very simple compass app that also had a tuning fork feature. the
closer the immigrants came to hidden water reserves left out by charities
and activists, the more the phone would vibrate. This was to solve the
problem of immigrants dying of thirst in the desert.

Of course they got into trouble...

<3


http://hyperallergic.com/54678/poetry-immigration-and-the-fbi-the-transborder-immigrant-tool/

Almost five years ago, Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) 2.0
<http://digitalarts.lcc.gatech.edu/unesco/internet/artists/int_a_edtheater.html>
/b.a.n.g. lab <http://bang.calit2.net/> released the first iteration
of the Transborder
Immigrant Tool <http://bang.calit2.net/xborderblog/> (TBT), a mobile-phone
technology that provides poetry to immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico
border while leading them to water caches in the Southern California
desert. In 2010, the project caused a firestorm of controversy on the
American political scene, and the artists of EDT/b.a.n.g. lab were
investigated by three Republican Congressmen, the FBI Office of Cybercrimes
and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where Ricardo
Dominguez, co-founder of EDT (with Brett Stalbaum) and principal
investigator of b.a.n.g. lab, is an associate professor in the visual arts
department.

framework and open artist apis
http://www.walkingtools.net


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Romy Ilano
romy at snowyla.com
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