TransborderImmigrantTool
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[edit] Transborder Immigrant Tool
Funded by Arts and Humanities (Transborder Grant 2007-8), UCSD. http://humctr.ucsd.edu/awards/awards.shtml#Transborder
Transborder Immigrants Tool: A Mexico/U.S. Border Disturbance Art Project By Ricardo Dominguez and Brett Stalbaum (Principal Investigators)
Lead Researchers: Micha Cárdenas and Jason Najarro (Electronic Disturbance Theater/b.a.n.g lab)
Project Description For XBorder Immigrant Tool http://post.thing.net/node/1642
Transborder Immigrants Tool Poster (by Jason Navarro for CALIT2) http://www.thing.net/~rdom/Marcha/tbt/xborder.pdf
Transborder Immigrants Tool Flash Presentation http://www.thing.net/~rdom/Marcha/tbt/Transborder.swf
Transborder Immigrants Tool 1 min. .AVI of Desert Test http://www.thing.net/~rdom/Marcha/tbt/tbt.avi
[edit] Meetings
[edit] Media Coverage and Awards
Mobileactive.org - http://mobileactive.org/artivists-and-mobile-pho
Winner, Transnational Communities Award - http://en.transitiomx.net/competition/transnationalwinner
La Jornada http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2007/10/21/index.php?section=espectaculos&article=a09n1esp&partner=rss
La Opinion http://www.laopinion.com/print.html?rkey=00000000000001864960
When Mobile Media Becomes Political http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2007/11/safe-passage-for-illegal-borde.html
[edit] Background / Research Links
[edit] Human Rights Groups
Casa Migrante in Tijuana http://www.migrante.com.mx/Tijuana.htm
Border Angels – sd area aid group http://www.borderangels.org/
American Friends Service Committee – national immigrant rights organization. http://www.afsc.org/pacificsw/sandiego.htm
No Mas Muertes – arizona migrant aid http://www.nomoredeaths.org/
Humane Borders – arizona border group http://www.humaneborders.org/ Humane Borders Blog http://humanebordersblogged.blogspot.com/
Samaritans – arizona border group http://www.samaritanpatrol.org/
[edit] Devices
Garmin GPS Manual http://www.garmin.com/manuals/Geko201_OwnersManual.pdf
Mologogo (http://mologogo.com) is a “free” commercial application that uses the same java location API’s that we may use. They have a useful list of j2me compatible phones on their wiki, that (should) work for us: http://mologogo.wikispaces.com/Phone+List
USB to serial adapter http://www.usbgear.com/computer_cable_details.cfm?sku=U232-P9AP&cats=199&catid=199%2C601%2C461 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/GPS_Serial_to_USB
Solar Chargers http://store.sundancesolar.com/cephso.html http://www.windupradio.com/icp/isun.htm
Openmoko – linux based iphone clone http://www.openmoko.org/
[edit] Software
XML Parser for J2ME http://kxml.sourceforge.net/kxml2/
http://www.gpsbabel.org/ http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/How_to_get_data_from_a_Geko_201
Open sourceGPS HOWTO http://www.marengo-ltd.com/gps/
View GPX Files on Google Maps http://www.chrislacy.net/map
More GPX Resources http://www.topografix.com/gpx_resources.asp
J2ME Navigation App (trying to get to work on my phone) http://www.trekbuddy.net
[edit] Reading and Related Projects
Border Xing Guide, Heath Bunting http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/borderxing/
Locative Media in the Wild http://digitalarts.ucsd.edu/~wild/
Virtual Hiker http://www.paintersflat.net/virtual_hiker.html
Border Film Project http://www.borderfilmproject.com/
Judi Werthein’s ‘crossing trainers’ http://www.deappel.nl/onmobility/5_werthein_descr.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/17/AR2005111700146.html
Berebere http://berebere.info/ http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/009601.php API’s
Google Maps API http://www.google.com/apis/maps/
Free Shit – example of google map tagging by users http://freeshit.hackbloc.org Reading
The Devil’s Highway: A True Story (Paperback) by Luis Alberto Urrea (Author) “Five men stumbled out of the mountain pass so sunstruck they didn’t know their own names, couldn’t remember where they’d come from, had forgotten how… http://www.amazon.com/Devils-Highway-True-Story/dp/0316010804/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-2458822-8057264?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185204517&sr=1-1
Understanding Non-Literacy as a Barrier to Mobile Phone Communication http://research.nokia.com/bluesky/non-literacy-001-2005/index.html
Tu Voz, video with interviews about crossing experiences http://tuvoz.tv/media/TVTV.1.1.DSL.mov http://tuvoz.tv/episode_1.php (video link above is wrong on this page)
headmap manifesto http://www.technoccult.com/library/headmap.pdf
Beyond Locative Media http://networkedpublics.org/locative_media/beyond_locative_media?q=locative_media/beyond_locative_media
Questioning the Frame, Coco Fusco on Mapping http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/1750/
Operational Media, Jordan Crandall on Mapping http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=441
The Locative Commons: Situating Location-Based Media in Urban Public Space http://www.futuresonic.com/futuresonic/pdf/Locative_Commons.pdf
The Advent of Netwar http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR789/index.html
The Zapatista “Social Netwar” in Mexico http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR994/index.html
[edit] Film and Video
Border Angels MTV Piece http://think.mtv.com/044FDFFFF0098A13200170098F284/
Crossing arizona, 2006 documentary that maps out a lot of the different groups or actors working on the border. http://www.crossingaz.com/
Rights on the line, AFSC’s film about the border and the minutemen. I have a copy if folks want to borrow it. http://www.witness.org/index.php?option=com_rightsalert&Itemid=178&task=view&alert_id=43
[edit] Photos
http://flickr.com/photos/lotu5/tags/transborderimmigranttool/
