ART 80F - MODULE 4 LECTURE CONTENT
TACTICAL MEDIA IN ACTION
Various applications of Tactical Media actions loosely centered around immigration + border enforcement and human rights issues
Facebook Communication + Networking - ICE RAIDS
ISSUES
Public - Visibility + Attention
False information / Difficult to verify
Accessibility / Depends On Network
RedadAlertas / Raid Alerts - 2017
Transborder Project + Transborder immigrant tool - 2009
Mixed Media: i335 Motorola, walkingtools.net software, images, poetry, and audio
Artists: Micha Cárdenas, Amy Sara Carroll, Ricardo Dominguez, Elle Mehrmand and Brett Stalbaum
From TBT website
The Customs and Border Protection Agency’s 2009 fiscal year report documents 416 border-crossing related deaths from January to October 2009. When the Berlin Wall fell, official reports claimed that ninety-eight people in total died trying to cross from East to West Berlin. In contrast, local and international nongovernmental organizations estimate that 10,000 people to date have perished attempting to cross the Mexico-U.S. border. The Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT) repurposes inexpensive used mobile phones that have GPS antennae. The project represents a multi-valenced code-switch, a queer technology. Its software aspires to guide “the tired, the poor,” the dehydrated—citizens of the world—to water safety sites.
From MetroActive article
"There are GPS devices—you can go into the Best Buy in Tijuana if you want one—that are actually designed for long-distance, over-land navigation," Stalbaum said. "Whereas our platform is designed to help you find a water station. So if you live in a facts-based reality, your concern should be with Best Buy, not the Transborder Immigrant Tool."
