Zona Autonoma Militarizada. Europa [zam~]: A multimedia archive and immersive, 360°, reactive and interactive audio-visual system based on field studies across militarized European borders and hotspots where trafficking cells operate

摘要

In 2015 the first mass migration and the first geopolitical and transnational crisis of the digital age began. This brought along the awakening of a new phase in slavery trade and trafficking of human beings (THB) at the European borders. In this article I introduce an ongoing fieldstudy I began in January 2016, in collaboration with experts from Spanish and European institutions, that so far has taken me to hotspots and borders, and to the accumulation of a vast multimedia archive. This led to the creation of zonaautonomamilitarizada.eu, an immersive/360°, interactiveand reactive audio-visual performative system conceptually rooted in military technologies, second-order cybernetics and mass media developments.