{"id":705,"date":"2014-02-04T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/?p=705"},"modified":"2014-02-04T13:13:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T20:13:00","slug":"interview-with-migrant-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/interview-with-migrant-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Migrant Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/gob\/interview\/video\/bg.png\" width=\"720\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2012, as I worked on an installation for the New York Hall of Science titled &#8220;a geography of being | una geografia de ser,&#8221; I enlisted the help of undocumented immigrant activists Cesar and Vishal.  I asked them to help me conceptualize a video game that would portray some of the experiences commonly felt by immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.  We met a few times over food and had extended discussions.  I found some of their experiences and observations so enlightening that I have been meaning to post excerpts from the interviews that others may find helpful and insightful.  <\/p>\n<p>Below is one excerpt concerning day to day fears that they have lived with; fears that have been confronted by becoming activists and making their status public.<\/p>\n<p><audio controls><source src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/gob\/interview\/audio\/gob2.ogg\" type=\"audio\/ogg\"><source src=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/gob\/interview\/audio\/gob2.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\">Your browser does not support the audio tag.<\/audio><\/p>\n<p>Other topics include assimlation\/de-assimilation, going to college, romantic and familial love.  <a href=\"http:\/\/ambriente.com\/gob\/interview\/\" title=\"Migrant Interviews\">Listen to all the interviews here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012, as I worked on an installation for the New York Hall of Science titled &#8220;a geography of being | una geografia de ser,&#8221; I enlisted the help of undocumented immigrant activists Cesar and Vishal. I asked them to help me conceptualize a video game that would portray some of the experiences commonly felt [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,2,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-activism","category-critical_perspectives","category-immigration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}