Jamming the Works: Art, Politics and Activism: Introduction

Jamming the Works: Art, Politics and Activism: Introduction

In one recent instance, the University of California at San Diego threatened to revoke the tenure of Ricardo Dominguez, a professor of visual art, who developed what he calls "transborder immigrant tools"- recycled cell phones loaded with GPS software that point border-crossers to caches o...

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Published in:Radical teacher (Cambridge) no. 100; p. 1
Main Authors: Dittmar, Linda, Entin, Joseph
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn Center for Critical Education of NY 01-10-2014
Subjects:
Artists
Carpenter, Karen
Cellular telephones
Children
Chinese languages
Design
French literature
Immigrants
Jarry, Alfred (1873-1907)
Mexican Americans
Mobile phones
Photography
Political activism
Political Power
Politics
School Buildings
Software
Teaching
New York
United States > US
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Summary:In one recent instance, the University of California at San Diego threatened to revoke the tenure of Ricardo Dominguez, a professor of visual art, who developed what he calls "transborder immigrant tools"- recycled cell phones loaded with GPS software that point border-crossers to caches of fresh water in the desert. Recall Hitler's and Stalin's repression of the international modernist avant-garde, Lawrence Ferlingheti's arrest and trial on obscenity charges for selling Alan Ginsberg's Howl, the National Endowment for the Arts' scandals of the early 1990s, or Chinese artists' imprisonment for making art that pointed at state corruption accountable for the death of many children trapped in shoddy school buildings during the 2008 earthquake in Schezuan.
ISSN:0191-4847
1941-0832