January 2007

São Paulo’s known for having the worst traffic congestion in the world. This causes it to be very dangerous for the motorcycle couriers, yet they remain unseen and undervalued. But now the project, Canal*Motoboy, allows them to post their daily realities, forming a community and creating a navigation tool.

The Transborder Immigrant Tool is a location-based mobile art project designed to guide Mexican migrants to life-saving water sources while crossing the desert into the U.S. This digital lifeline continues decades of electronic civil disobedience, merging 1980s hacker activism with urgent border humanitarian intervention.