Invitation to participate:



'Border Reports' will extend the mission of Borderhack 2.0

to 'delete the border,' by

transmitting sound (as audible and radio frequencies) into

the immediate vicinity (Tijuana MX,

San Ysidro USA).

We invite you to create a sound recording for this project.

The name 'Border Reports' comes from the AM radio traffic

reports in San Diego that let people

know how long it takes to get across the border.

Drivers have to wait in line and produce passports to cross

the border, but sound itself knows

no such barriers. The USA used radio for years to transmit

the message of capitalism into the

communist bloc; we will use sound frequencies similarly, in

order to mobilize discussion and

understanding of border policies which criminalize the poor

and politically persecuted.



We would like to present your sound recording as part of

this international transmission . We

invite you to produce a 5 minute (maximum) audio segment to

be transmitted on both sides of

the border during the Borderhack encampment on August 24,

25, 25 in Playas Tijuana.

Segments can take any form including: Journalistic,

conceptual, investigative, political

manifestos, creative appropriation, musical, a shout-out,

an interview, a mini-history,

information, news, noise, a poem.

Title your segment: The title of each segment should start

with -

"Border Report," and then a number or year or title which

might indicate

the content or feeling of your segment.

Examples would be:

"Border Report No.365" "Border Report No. 366,"

"Border Report Year 2060"

"Border Report 2.2"

"Border Report Berlin 1937"

Segments could consider the US Mexico frontier year 2001,

but they could also present

information about other borders past, present and future.

Where and how to produce the segment? There are several

ways!

Record at Playas de Tijuana:

We will have a station at Playas and recording equipment.

Bring your text or instruments and

find us under the Border Reports flag. Or come up with a

spontaneous interview or sound piece

at Playas; there should be plenty of inspiration at the

encampment.

Record at our studio. Please call us at (213) 365-2344 to

record with us.

Best days would be Monday August 20 and Tuesday August

21.

Or email us at

slewison@hotmail or ncousino@earthlink.net.

Record at your place and deliver the file via mail, or to

our house or mailbox in Los Angeles.

Please email or call for details/address. Or

bring the recording with you to the Borderhack emcampment

at Playas. We can take audio

cassette, minidisc or CD.

Record at your place, and send the file via email. Please

contact us for details as to what

kind of file we can accept.

Any language is welcome:

english, spanish, sound, music, noise or any other language

transmitted through audiowaves.

duration:

maximum 5 minutes

usable recording formats:

cassette tape, mini-disc, cd

We hope you will participate in this action! The more, the

merrier (and louder).

For more information, please contact Nicole or Sarah at

213-365-2344, or ncousino@earthlink,

or slewison@hotmail.com.

Border Reports is part of Borderhack.

See http://www.de-lete.tv/borderhack



Borderhack is a festival/camp that is part of the "kein

mensch ist illegal" chain of

bordercamps. It will take place in Tijuana on August 24, 25

and

26 of the year 2001. The location of the camp will be in

the Playas de Tijuana part of the

city, in front of the actual border fence that divides

the

third and the first world, and also where it penetrates the

ocean. The camp will offer net

art, photograph exhibits, border cinema, ISDN

connections, conferences and workshops, not to mention the

participation of the global

hacktivist and net-media art community.