Jamming the Works: Art, Politics and Activism Introduction

As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, art that aims to actively challenge the social order continues to spark controversy and encounter resistance. In one recent instance, the University of California at San Diego threatened to revoke the tenure of Ricardo Dominguez, a professor of visu...

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Published in:Radical teacher (Cambridge) 2014-09, Vol.100 (100), p.133-138
Main Authors: Dittmar, Linda, Entin, Joseph
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activism
Political aspects
Social aspects
United States
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Summary:As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, art that aims to actively challenge the social order continues to spark controversy and encounter resistance. 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. Dominquez has called the phones, which feature an audio application that plays inspirational poetry to migrants, a “mobile Statue of Liberty.”
ISSN:0191-4847
1941-0832
1941-0832
DOI:10.5195/rt.2014.169