Rebloged from the Transborder Tool web site by Micha Cardenas: http://bang.calit2.net/xborderblog/?p=173

The Transborder Immigrant Tool was the subject of a whirlwind of media attention in the past week. The project has been developed by the Electronic Disturbance Theater, consisting of artists Ricardo Dominguez, Brett Stalbaum, Amy Sara Carroll and Micha Cardenas. The media coverage included television, radio and print stories including the Associated Press, BBC World, NBC, Fox, and the UCSD Guardian. While the actual stories are too many to list here, the following is a list of some of the major articles. Many media outlets improperly reported it as an Iphone app, others attempted to discredit the project saying it is illegal, and some interviewed Enrique Morones of the Border Angels, one of the humanitarian providers whose water caches the tools directs people to. Overall, the members of the group are extremely happy that the Transborder Immigrant Tool has been so effective in opening up dialog on the dire need for humanitarian aid at the border, where thousands of people have needlessly died. We look forward to completing and deploying the tool in the coming year.

GPS tool helps illegal immigrants cross US border
Associated Press

Celular para cruzar ilegalmente
BBC World

Border Crossing: There’s an App for That
NBC San Diego

Low-Tech App Aids in Crossing Mexican Border
UCSD Guardian

GPS para indocumentados
Telemundo

Border Crossing Application
Fox 5 TV San Diego

Smart phone application helps illegal immigrants navigate safely across border
NBC Spokane Washington

GPS Technology to Help Illegal Immigrants
KSRO – Santa Rosa,CA,USA

Poll: 56% say border-crossing tool threatens national security
OC Register

Border-Navigating Phone App Raises Concerns
KMJ Now – Fresno,CA,USA

mobile phone application gets mixed reactions
State Press

Border Crossing: There’s an App for That
NBC Chicago

UCSD Researches Creating Phone App For Border Crossers
MyStateline.com – Rockford,IL,USA

Want to sneak into US? There’s an app for that
WND.com – Washington,DC,USA

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Wendy Chun (Brown University) and Cicero Inacio da Silva (CRCA/Walkingtools-HiperGps projects) talking about Technological Nomadisms in Buenos Aires.

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HiperGps will be utilized as a platform for spatially distributing sound at the “Mapping the Desert, Deserting the Map” project organized by Dick Hebdige and Lisa Tucker in Wonder Valley CA, Oct 22-25 2009. During the course of the weekend, the HiperGps platform will be deployed to produce individual and/or collaborative audio geo-annotations and route-based narratives in and around the various sites of investigation during the course of the Mapping the Desert, Deserting the Map confabulation of performance artists and experimental cartographers. Brett Stalbaum (Visual Arts, UCSD), one of the developers of the open source (AGPL) HiperGps locative tour design utility, will be working with interested parties on technical and aesthetic concerns surrounding location triggered expression with dirt cheap mobile handsets. Anyone may participate as project timing in and around their own work allows, producing either grand or modest works that exist on their own terms, or which are folded into their own art practices. It is an open field for experimentation. The resulting work will be documented at www.walkingtools.net.

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Technological Nomadisms

International Symposium – October 19-20, 2009

Academic coordination: Giselle Beiguelman and Jorge La Ferla
Organized by Espacio Fundación Telefónica (Buenos Aires) and Sergio Motta Institute (São Paulo)

10.19.09, 6.30 pm

Software Studies: Frontiers, Territories, Spaces and Subjectivity in the Culture of Mobility
Cicero Inacio da Silva
Associate research at the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA)

This presentation analyzes issues related to the deterritorialization of the formal spaces of the physical frontiers of information, and suggests a different approach to mobile media with regard to artists who create Internet-based works using these future systems. The article also features an art project, Walkingtools, enabling the creation of data location systems based on the geographic position obtained from GPS data in cell phones.

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A walkingtools HiperGps workshop will be part of the following class:

Course Title: Mapping The  Desert, Deserting the Map
Instructor: Dick Hebdige
Units:2 undergraduate credit or INT 201MD for graduate credit. Students from
other campuses may register by Simultaneous Enrollment for undergraduate
credit or via the Intercampus Exchange Program for graduate credit.
Please see http://www.registrar.ucsb.edu/Intercampus.htm#sim-enroll or
contact your home campus registrar for additional information.
Meeting time: tbd

This is an intensive, low- residency course including participation in a dry- immersion roving symposium scheduled for October 22-25, 2009 in Joshua Tree/29 Palms and the Coachella Valley.  The symposium will include tours of the 29 Palms Marine Base, Joshua Tree National Park, and the lower desert dune and oasis systems.

The desert as place of origins, endings and open horizons, as dumping ground and refuge of last resort, as unspoiled wilderness, irradiated hinterland and  theater of war, as speculative real estate development opportunity and as spiritual, technological and artistic test site has for millennia served as a screen for multiple and contradictory human projections.

Using written texts, films, photographs, field trips and Google Earth this class sets out to map the Desert along with the actual desert in which we reside while in the process mapping the limits of mapping (i.e. deserting the map).

Mapping the Desert, Deserting the Map forms part of a larger project entitled Mapping the Californian Desert organized and jointly coordinated by UCIRA, UC Riverside’s Sweeney Gallery and the UCR Palm Desert Graduate Center. Mapping the Californian Desert will include temporary installations, talks, performances, film screenings and desert excursions/’dry immersions’ scheduled throughout the 2009-2010 academic year. The course is also designed to provide an academic/course-related link to one of UCIRA’s new areas of interest – Social Ecologies: California-centric embedded arts research, as well as UCHRI’s new California Studies Initiative.

For more information about registering for the course, please visit our website at <http://www.ucira.ucsb.edu> or contact ZouZou Chapman at <zchapman@ucira.ucsb.edu> / 805.893.3098
Full information about the required dry-immersion roving symposium is available at <http://www.ucira.ucsb.edu/Mapping%20the%20Desert%20Call.html>

http://www.walkingtools.net/Mapping_the_Desert_course.pdf

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Guide to Creating Guided GPS Media Tours with the HiperGps Production Tool
including deployment example for typical iDen handsets
Alpha Version 0.0.5

This guide explains how to use HiperGps to create your own GPS Media Tours for JavaME/Location API (GPS enabled) handsets. It documents most of the features in a “manual” format, and provides a lot of other useful advice and information. Also included is an example of how to deploy the HiperGps MIDlet to a common and quite inexpensive (in the US) mobile phone.

http://www.walkingtools.net/WalkingToolsGpx/doc/HiperGpsGuide0.0.5.pdf

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The new version features many bug fixes and new features, but the most interesting new feature is that HiperGps can now be used to upload your walks to the experimental HiperGeoOnline database.

0.0.5 change log:
* HiperGeoOnline allows for uploading and sharing of projects (highly experimental…)
* Duplicate waypoints in imported gpx files were causing a crash. Solved by disallowing waypoints with identical lat and lon to be imported as exact duplicates make no sense for HiperGeo applications in any case.
* Map panel now displays a warning if the set scale does not show all of the data
* Projects must now be named without spaces
* Fixed bug where files named xxxx.xxxx.png (or .wav) don’t pass file filter
* Now uses project name for .jad, .jar file and MIDlet names.
* Ingest and delete dialogs now recall their last working location (until restart)
* Improved GUI translation system
* Added bounds check for latitude and longitude values on the HiperWaypointTable
* Save As… feature added
* While we are still in Alpha, moved package net.walkingtools.editor to net.walkingtools.j2se.editor to avoid possible name conflicts with the server and j2me platforms.
* Started on improvements to internationalization. There is still a problem with numberformatting that requires a restart after choosing a different language, hope to kill this in 0.0.6.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/walkingtoolsgpx/

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A nova versão conta com melhorias em alguns bugs e algumas novas ferramentas. A partir da versão 0.0.5 o sistema HiperGps pode fazer o upload de suas caminhadas na base de dados experimental HiperGeoOnline através de conexão à Internet.
Site do projeto HiperGeo (muito experimental….): http://computingarts.ucsd.edu/~bstalbaum/hipergeoonline

log das alterações importantes realizadas na versão 0.0.5:
* HiperGeoOnline permite o upload e o compartilhamento de projetos (altamente experimental…)
* Pontos duplicados em arquivos gpx importados pelo sistema estavam causando problemas. A solução foi desabilitar pontos com lat e lon idênticos.
* O painel com o mapa dos pontos agora mostra um aviso quando não estão listados todos os dados dos pontos na escala.
* Os projetos devem a partir de agora ser nomeados sem espaços.
* Arrumado o problema em relação aos nomes dos arquivos como xxxx.xxxx.png (ou .wav) que não eram lidos pelo sistema de arquivos.
* A partir de agora os arquivos .jad, .jar e o nome do MIDlet passam a ser os mesmos nomeados no projeto.
* A inserção e o delete de diálogos agora recupera a última localidade de trabalho (até reinício)
* Melhora na tradução da GUI
* Salvar Como… incluído…
* Enquanto estamos ainda operando com uma versão Alpha, mova o pacote net.walkingtools.editor para net.walkingtools.j2se.editor para evitar possíveis conflitos com o servidor e plataformas j2me.
* Iniciadas as melhorias para a Internacionalização. Ainda temos problemas com a formatação dos números que ainda requer o reinício após a escolha de uma língua diferente da iniciada originalmente.

Código fonte e projeto no Source Forge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/walkingtoolsgpx/

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HiperGps/HiperGeo demo from walkingtools on Vimeo.

Landscape 2.0

Exhibition
Our view of landscape and its “nature” has changed over the course of history. By examining landscape designs, we can learn about the attitudes of a certain society at a certain time in terms of how it developed and shaped nature.
In the Romantic period, landscapes came to symbolize the human psychological condition. Today we must ask ourselves how significant landscapes are today when they are depicted as a social and cultural construct and are primarily regarded as an economic or ecological resource. Is it even possible to think of landscape as intact and unspoiled nature? How do we imagine real, natural landscape, and how is landscape portrayed in digital fantasy worlds?
This exhibition takes a contemporary approach to the landscape theme. Against a backdrop of historic ideas, it will present current landscape concepts and their impact on economic, environmental and socio-political decision-making. International artists will create a number of new works for the exhibition, as well as outdoor, site-specific works. While some examine the historic developments and their effects on the structures and uses of landscapes today, others develop utopian ideas and concepts for sustainable landscape planning in the future, or create digital spaces of experience and model worlds.
An extensive educational and media-pedagogical programme, lectures, film presentations and workshops will accompany the exhibition.

Curators: Sabine Himmelsbach and Bettina von Dziembowski

Participating artists: Vaughn Bell (USA), Ulu Braun, Büro für Unabwägbarkeiten, Susan Collins (GB), Ursula Damm, Wapke Feenstra (NL), Masaki Fujihata (J), Beate Gütschow, David Hahlbrock, Janice Kerbel (GB), Jane Prophet (GB), Rachel Reupke (GB), Thiago Rocha Pitta (BR), Teri Rueb (USA), Katrin Sigurdardottir (IS), Brett Stalbaum / Cicero Silva / walkingtools.net, Monika Studer und Christoph van den Berg (CH), Thomson & Craighead (GB)s

Venues and schedule:
Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg and Springhornhof Neuenkirchen Art Association: 29 Aug. – 15 Nov. 2009, Vernissage: 28. Aug. 2009
http://www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de/main.jsp?categoryID=202896&articleCategoryID=202897&articleCategoryID2=null&languageID=2&articleID=3933

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onãodito – Fernando Senra e Julio Alessi

(part 1)

(part 2)

Através do uso do GPS em telefones celulares, você pode descobrir segredos e vestígios de outras épocas que estão presentes na cidade de Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brasil. / Through the use of GPS in cell phones, you can discover secrets and remnants of other times that are present in the city of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Daniele Aparecida Cipriano (ascipriano)

Projeto desenvolvido por Daniele Cipriano (ascipriano) sobre os cincos sentidos na cidade de Diamantina, Brasil. / Project developed by Daniele Cipriano (ascipriano) about the five senses in Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

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