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Code as Ritualized Poetry: The Tactics of the Transborder Immigrant Tool
The Transborder Immigrant Tool is a provocative mobile phone app by the Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) that provides sustenance to border crossers by leading them to water and guiding them with poetry. Although the tool can be applied to any border, the chief border it has been tied to and tested on is the US-Mexico border. The EDT present the project as an artistic disruption of the tired national political theater staged at that border. The piece refocuses attention on the basic human needs of those caught in the middle of the stale and stalemated divide. For the EDT, every part of the piece participates in this disruption not merely the finished app or the poetry but the code as well. In this paper, I ask, what would it mean for the code to poetic disruption? One set of poetry for the project created by Amy Sara Carroll offers instructions for desert survival. By presenting instructions as poems, she offers one entre into reading the source code of the app as poetry. Using the methods of Critical Code Studies, I read the code of TBT in light of and as part of the poetic intervention of this complex performance.
(Source: Author's abstract at DHQ)
Scott Rettberg - 03.07.2013 - 13:33
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Special America: The Movie
Special America: The Movie is a film adaptation of the "Poetry Is Special America" iteration of the ongoing project. The movie was filmed at the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY on April 26-27, 2014. Our crew of 14 included Claire Donato & Jeff T. Johnson (Creators & Writers of Special America), Juana Hodari (Director), Amy Bergstein (Producer), Alejandro Veciana (Assistant Director), Alexander Norelli (Art Director), Edward Pages (Director of Photography), plus grips and electricians TBA. As of July 2014, we are in post-production.
clairedonato - 27.06.2014 - 20:42
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off_course: Escuela del Caos
A performance for the ELO 2013 conference in Paris on UnderAcademy College's "Escuela del Caos" (Madrid, 2013).
Alvaro Seica - 20.11.2014 - 17:07
