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The Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT) is a last mile safety device designed by Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab to aid migrants crossing the Mexico-U.S. Border's harsh desert environments. Explore the audio and poetry archives of the TBT in different algorithmic modalities by clicking any of the icons below.

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About This Archive

About This Archive

This archive gathers the audio files and poems of The Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT), a project that used repurposed/reprogrammed inexpensive used mobile phones with GPS antennas to provide emergency personal navigation to migrants crossing the Mexico-U.S. border, using a "Geo Poetic System" to guide them to desert water safety sites set up by activists and to provide poetic audio nourishment. The audio includes materials in Spanish, Nahuatl, and English.

The project was developed by the Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 (Ricardo Dominguez, Brett Stalbaum, Amy Sara Carroll, Micha Cárdenas, Elle Mehrmand) in 2007, aiming to address the public safety issues created by United States' duplicitous immigration policies. The project’s interactive platform was developed and tested in southern California’s Anza-Borrego Desert State Park from 2009 to 2012.

This archive was designed by the digital studio territorio indefinido for the Centro de Cultura Digital in Mexico City in 2021.

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