Trans-Scripts 3 (2013) Geo_Poetic_Systems (GPS): Fragments, Fractals, Forms and Functions Against Invisibility */** Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 and b.a.n.g. lab: Ricardo Dominguez, Amy Sara Carroll, Brett Stalbaum, Micha Cárdenas, and Elle Mehrmand *** The map is open, connectable in all its dimensions, and capable of being dismantled; it is reversible, and susceptible to constant modification. It can be torn, reversed, adapted to montages of every kind, taken in hand by an individual, a group or a social formation... Contrary to a tracing, which always returns to the 'same', a map has multiple entrances. – G. Deleuze and F. Guattari, On the Line (New York: Semiotext(e),1983) “I guess you could say it started on the first of May 2000,” Alberto said. “What did?” “Geohacking. Or the potential thereof. The government announced then that Slective Availabity would be turned off, on what had been, until then, strictly a military system. Civilians could access the GPS geocoordinates for the first time.” – William Gibson, Spook Country (2007) A poetic gesture from its inception, the Transborder Immigrant Tool functions, via the aspirations of such a dislocative medium, as dislocative media, seeking to realize the possibilities of G.P.S. as both a “global positioning system” and, what, in another context, Laura Borràs Castanyer and Juan B. Gutiérrez have termed, a “global poetic system.” – Amy Sara Carroll, Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT) ___________________________ * All of the text has been plagiarized in an anti-anti utopian form. As Amy Sara Carroll likes to shout: “Plagiarize utopia!” ** This text originally appeared in Spanish in the journal #ERRATA Number 3, (December 2010): http://issuu.com/revistaerrata/docs/errata_3_cultura_digital_creaci_n *** The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) 1.0 is a group that developed Virtual-Sit-In technologies in 1998 in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. EDT 2.0’s most recent project (with Brett Stalbaum, Micha Cardenas, Amy Sara Carroll and Elle Mehrmand) is the Transborder Immigrant Tool: a GPS cellphone safety net tool for crossing the Mexico/U.S border. The Transborder Immigrant Tool has received notable international acclaim, including an award from Cultural Contact, Endowment for Culture Mexico-U.S.’s “Transnational Communities Award” in 2007, and two Transborder Awards from the University of California, San Diego’s Center for the Humanities (in 2007 and 2008, respectively). 290