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Transborder Immigrant Tool and Nano_Berlin PDF Print E-mail
Dr. Cardenas\'s Blog
Wednesday, 31 October 2007

Winner Transnational Communities Award - Transborder Immigrant Tool

Artists: Ricardo Domínguez, Brett Stalbaum, Micha Cárdenas y Jason
Najarro

A bang.lab project: (http://bang.calit2.net)

Project: Transborder Immigrant Tool (Herramienta Transfronteriza para
Inmigrantes)

Country: U.S.A

http://en.transitiomx.net/competition/transnationalwinner

The award was presented as part of the *nomadic borders* program of
the International Electronic Art Festival - TRANSITIO_MX 02. Which was
held in Mexico City from Oct. 12th to Oct. 20th, 2007.

The Transnational Communities Award was presented to us by the US
Embassy in Mexico and the award was funded by *Cultural Contact*,
Endowment for Culture Mexico - U.S. (Contacto Cultural, Fideicomiso
para la Cultura México-Estados Unidos).

The *Transborder Immigrant Tool* has also received an
award from UCSD, Center for Humanities' Transborder
Interventions, Transcontinental Archives Awards 2007-2008.
http://humctr.ucsd.edu/awards/awards.shtml#Transborder

We also received support from the Calit2 Summer Undergraduate Research
Scholarship Program at UCSD 2007 for our undergraduate researcher
Jason Navarro.

About Transborder Immigrant Tool:

The border between the U.S. and Mexico has moved between the virtual
and the all too real since before the birth of the two nation-states.
This has allowed a deep archive of suspect movement across this
border to be traced and tagged – specifically anchored to immigrants
bodies moving north, while immigrant bodies moving south much less
so. The danger of moving north across this border is not a question
of politics, but vertiginous geography. Hundreds of people have died
crossing the U.S./Mexico border due to not being able to tell where
they are in relation to where they have been and which direction
they need to go to reach their destination safely. Now with the rise
of multiple distributed geospatial information systems (such as the
Goggle Earth Project for example), GPS (Global Positioning System) and
the developing Virtual Hiker Algorithm by artist Brett Stalbaum it
is now possible to develop a Transborder Tools for Immigrants to be
implemented and distributed on cracked Nextel cell phones. This will
allow a virtual geography to mark new trails and potentially safer
routes across this desert of the real.

The technologies of Spatial Data Systems and GPS (Global Positioning
System) have enabled an entirely new relationship with the landscape
that takes form in applications for simulation, surveillance, resource
allocation, management of cooperative networks and pre-movement
pattern modeling (such as the Virtual Hiker Algorithm) an algorithm
that maps out a potential or suggested trail for real a hiker/or
hikers to follow. The Transborder Immigrant Tool would add a new layer
of agency to this emerging virtual geography that would allow segments
of global society that are usually outside of this emerging grid of
hyper-geo-mapping-power to gain quick and simple access with to GPS
system. The Transborder Immigrant Tool would not only offer access to
this emerging total map economy – but, would add an intelligent agent
algorithm that would parse out the best routes and trails on that day
and hour for immigrants to cross this vertiginous landscape as safely
as possible.

We also just returned from Berlin's House of World Culture where
bang.lab presented a new project on nanotechology, nomadic cultures
of New York art practice and the global economies - entitled:

PARTICLES OF INTEREST: TALES FROM THE MATTER MARKET
(a b.a.n.g lab project)
by
Ricardo Dominguez and Diane Ludin (Principal Investigators)

http://pitmm.net/

Lead Researcher:Nina Waisman

Assistant Researchers: Tristan Shone, Caleb Waldorf, Amy Carroll,
Marius Schebella, Pierre Galaud and Césaire José Carroll-Dominguez

nomadic new york counters Manhattan’s restless flow of money with
“decelerated” in-between spaces. Their performance art refuses
spectacle. It takes on a political dimension through the formation of
temporary collectives which occupy spaces in new ways. The artists
open up New York and Berlin through their nomadic coming and going,
their avoidance of fixed structures. In Berlin they will tell us a
story of life in the global metropolis, a story that we all have in
common.

For the market, nanoparticles hold the 21st century’s great
promise. For critics, they are a vision of pure horror, as long
as the toxicological risks are not known. The era of unregulated
nanocapitalism has already dawned, with these smallest of particles
being used today in cosmetics, fabrics and dyes. Ricardo Dominguez,
founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater and initiator of virtual
sit-ins with the Zapatista resistance, sees his art as explicitly
politically commissioned. He and Diane Ludin invite the public to a
multimedia lecture-performance with two leading nanotechnologists that
will provide insight into the stories of the global particle market.
Knowledge is action!

http://www.hkw.de/en/programm2007/new_york/_new_york/projekt-detail_3_
14893.php

This project was funded by CALIT2 Research Funds and the UCSD,
Division of Arts and Humanities.

A new version of this nano-culture project will open at the San Diego


Museum of Art in March 2008 as part of the *Next Wave* show.

 

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Winner Transnational Communities Award at TRANSITO_MX PDF Print E-mail
Dr. Cardenas\'s Blog
Thursday, 25 October 2007

 

Artists: Ricardo Domínguez, Brett Stalbaum, Micha Cárdenas y Jason Najarro

Project: Transborder Immigrant Tool (Herramienta Transfronteriza para Inmigrantes)

Country: Estados Unidos

http://en.transitiomx.net/competition/transnationalwinner

Lo nacional no coincide con los límites establecidos, señala Néstor García Canclini Ser mixteco o purépecha ya no puede entenderse con una lógica territorial

“No estamos ante un mundo de nomadismo ni ante la desaparición de las naciones”, dijo el viernes el filósofo en el festival de artes electrónicas y video, Transitio_Mx

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2007/10/21/index.php?section=espectaculos&art...

Tania Molina Ramírez

“México ya no puede ser la misma nación. Lo nacional no coincide con los territorios delimitados”, lanzó el filósofo Néstor García Canclini, en una conferencia en la sección Comunidades Trasnacionales en el contexto de Transitio_Mx, festival internacional de artes electrónicas y video.

García Canclini señaló que la migración a Estados Unidos implica una transformación tan profunda del país que la identidad no se puede comprender por medio del sitio geográfico. Mencionó dos ejemplos de pueblos con una gran proporción de sus integrantes viviendo en Estados Unidos: ser mixteco o purépecha ya no puede ser entendido desde una lógica territorial.

“No estamos ante un mundo de nomadismo ni ante la desaparición de las naciones”, siguió el profesor-investigador de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, plantel Iztapalapa, en la conferencia llevada a cabo este viernes en el Centro Nacional de las Artes, en la que también participaron Pedro Lasch, artista e investigador de la Universidad de Duke, en Carolina del Norte, y María Zúñiga y
Juan Carlos, de la Asociación Tepeyac, de Nueva York.

“En otras épocas ha habido grandes desplazamientos humanos”, dijo García Canclini; hoy, “lo novedoso es la diversidad de condiciones en que se realizan”. Por ejemplo, las posibilidades de comunicación entre los que se quedan y los que se van son mayores, lo cual permite “compartir mucho más las experiencias”; por otro lado, las fronteras son cada vez más sofisticadas y hay “nuevas posibilidades de hackearlas, aunque sea en ficción”.

Se refería a algunos casos narrados por los participantes en la mesa anterior, como la película de ciencia ficción The sleep dealer, de Alex Rivera.

En esa sesión se habló sobre todo tipo de experiencias artísticas-cibernéticas vinculadas a la migración, como el proyecto Borderhack, que se llevó a cabo en la frontera Tijuana-San Diego en los años 90 (www.jornada.unam.mx/2003/10/12/
mas-fran.html).

También se dio a conocer el proyecto ganador del premio Comunidades Trasnacionales: Transborder immigrant tool, que consiste básicamente en aprovechar la tecnología GPS para programar teléfonos celulares para que den información sobre dónde hay agua, Patrulla Fronteriza y polleros, entre otros datos útiles para quienes buscan cruzar la frontera sin papeles, explicó Ricardo Domínguez, investigador del California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (calit2.net), donde se realiza el proyecto.

En pocas palabras, el proyecto busca salvar vidas. La batería del teléfono se recarga a través de movimiento.

Por ahora cuentan con 500 celulares y destinarán el dinero del premio (3 mil 500 dólares) a capacitar organizaciones que trabajan en la frontera californiana y serán las encargadas de distribuir los teléfonos, como Casa del Migrante y el Centro de Información para Trabajadores y Trabajadoras (CITTAC).

Por su parte, los integrantes de Asociación Tepeyac hablaron sobre la Carrera de la Antorcha Guadalupana que se realiza cada año, dura 67 días y recorre nueve estados mexicanos y 14 estadunidenses. La carrera establece puentes de comunicación entre decenas de poblados de un lado y otro de la frontera. Una de
sus banderas principales es “la legalización de los 12 millones de indocumentados”.

Por la tarde, algunos de los asistentes en estas sesiones estuvieron presentes en la acción Subcomandancia, realizada por el Departamento de Ficción (www.possibleworlds.org), en el marco del festival Transitio_Mx, realizada en una camper en el patio del Laboratorio Arte Alameda, que se propuso hackear la página electrónica del IFAI, exigiendo que den a conocer la lista de los
desaparecidos políticos en los últimos 40 años.

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Particle Capitalism Project - Opens in Berlin - 10-12-2007 PDF Print E-mail
Dr. Cardenas\'s Blog
Sunday, 14 October 2007


PARTICLES OF INTEREST: TALES FROM THE MATTER MARKET
(a b.a.n.g lab project)
by Ricardo Dominguez and Diane Ludin (Principal Investigators)
Tristan Shone, Nina Waisman and Caleb Waldorf (Lead Researchers)

http://pitmm.net/

Nomadic new york counters Manhattan’s restless flow of money with “decelerated” in-between spaces. Their performance art refuses spectacle. It takes on a political dimension through the formation of temporary collectives which occupy spaces in new ways. The artists open up New York and Berlin through their nomadic coming and going, their avoidance of fixed structures. In Berlin they will tell us a story of life in the global metropolis, a story that we all have in common.

For the market, nanoparticles hold the 21st century’s great promise. For critics, they are a vision of pure horror, as long as the toxicological risks are not known. The era of unregulated nanocapitalism has already dawned, with these smallest of particles being used today in cosmetics, fabrics and dyes. Ricardo Dominguez, founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater and initiator of virtual sit-ins on the Zapatista resistance, sees his art as explicitly politically commissioned. He and Diane Ludin invite the public to a multimedia lecture-performance with two leading nanotechnologists that will provide insight into the stories of the global particle market. Knowledge is action!

http://www.hkw.de/en/programm2007/new_york/veranstaltungen_14292/Veranstaltungsdetail_1_15249.php

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Tags: nanotech, nanotechnology, pitmm, particlecapitalism, banglab, sandiego, newyork, berlin, nomad

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Some Comments from the Venice Biennale PDF Print E-mail
Dr. Cardenas\'s Blog
Monday, 20 August 2007

From We-Make-Money-Not-Art.com:

The Nordic Pavilion hosts the work of artists from Finland, Norway and Sweden. This year, the focus is on the performative character of the exhibits. Starting right at the entrance with It would be nice to do something politicalToril Goksøyr and Camilla Martens, where a black man is cleaning non-stop the glass window of the pavilion throughout the biennial. An "ironic commentary on the correctness in acting politically as an artist." by

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Inside, the visitor becomes the performer. With his interactive dart board installation --I, the world, things, life, Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren invites the audience to grab plastic arrows and throw them at the black and yellow dartboard. By doing so, the public is constantly modifying the artist's work.

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Helsinki-based artist Adel Abidin has set up a little travel agency ABIDIN TRAVELS that caters for those who'd fancy vacation trips to Baghdad.

You are greeted by a sarcastic animated commercial, advertising a special offer for a holiday in Baghdad. The video gives you all the information you need to make the most of your hols: the cars you can rent tend to be of the military types; museums are closed, but that doesn't really matter as most of their content was looted anyway; you're advised to carry around candles or a torch with extra batteries, for the times when electricity is unavailable; you are advised to stay at a hotel of the lowest possible quality (the posh ones are targeted by Fundamentalist Muslims, or the National Forces), etc.

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If the adventure tempts you, a computer is at hand to book your fly (you can also do it online.)

In a darker tiny room, another video monitor shows real images of the life that Iraqis are living in Iraq. The sound is covered by the voice of an American woman welcoming visitors, and American soldiers singing and playing instruments in one of Saddam’s palaces during Fourth of July. There are also brochures and posters to take away with you...

 Continue at We-Make-Money-Not-Art.com

 

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CHANGING ONE SPECIES TO ANOTHER PDF Print E-mail
Dr. Cardenas\'s Blog
Monday, 02 July 2007

From Edge: The Third Culture:

 

In a news cycle dominated by Paris Hilton and the Apple iPhone, Craig Venter has announced the results of his lab's work on genome transplantation methods that allows for the transformation of one type of bacteria into another, dictated by the transplanted chromosome. In other words, one species becomes another. This is news, bound to affect everyone on the planet. Below is the press release fromVenter's Institute, along with links to the scientific paper published in Science, and the international press.

The day after the announcement, Edge talked to Venter, who had the following to say about the research underway:

Now we know we can boot up a chromosome system. It doesn't matter if the DNA is chemically made in a cell or made in a test tube. Until this development, if you made a synthetic chomosome you had the question of what do you do with it. Replacing the chomosome with existing cells, if it works, seems the most effective to way to replace one already in an existing cell systems. We didn't know if it would work or not. Now we do. This is a major advance in the field of synthetic genomics. We now know we can create a synthetic organism. It's not a question of 'if', or 'how', but 'when', and in this regard, think weeks and months, not years.

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