The project directly confronts contemporary issues of social inequality,
the inequities of border policy, and the need for humanitarian
intervention, but it has also become a target of political scrutiny
after an Orange County Register article brought media attention to the
project.  Since then, it has become a favorite object of ire by even the
likes of Glenn Beck.  As a result of this publicity, and no doubt
because of his outspoken activism, EDT-member Ricardo Dominguez has
been investigated by the UC Board of Regents (and subsequently
exonerated).  The Electronic Disturbance Theater now count the
investigation and its participants as part of the drama the are staging.

What makes this particular border art intervention interesting to me is not
just its relationship to these international social issues. Other works
have done as much.  What interests me is the deployment of the tool
through mobile devices and the software that runs it.  Because the
software itself, the very lines of code, were created also by this
artist collective, its form is not incidental or extraneous to the
project, not a mere means of delivery, but a part of the art object
itself. 

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