"Hostile Terrain 94: Art as a Means for Political Change"

Natalie Gomez writes about the current HT94 prototype up at the Art, Design, & Architecture Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara in impactmania. The new impactmania and UCSB program Human Mind and Migration (HMM) serves as a platform for meaningful broad-based engagement to take place, considering the present historical moment and the sociopolitical and environmental cocktail of issues related to migration.

Jason De León in front of t-shirt collage with UCSB student-interns in the background.

"Data Visualization As an Act of Witnessing"

The Undocumented Migration Project pop-up installation “Hostile Terrain 94” visualizes the humanitarian crisis on the United States’ southern border. Featured in the Nightingale by Maria Aviles.

Scale drawing of installation. The small triangles on this grid would be replaced with hanging manila and orange toe-tags.