Migrantes

Author: Rubria Rocha de Luna

Year: 2024

Medium: Electronic Literature / Digital Art 

Description

Migrantes is an interactive electronic literature piece combining social media messages and a moving image over a map of Mexico. It evokes the fragmented and shifting narratives of migration, displacement, and human resilience.

Artistic Statement

Migrantes explores how digital platforms become both spaces of connection and instruments of control in the experience of migration. The piece visualizes the constant motion and ephemerality of migrant stories, giving voice to the many journeys that shape contemporary mobility.

Credits

This project was developed as part of the Electronic Literature course, taught by Leonardo Flores.

• Concept, Code, and Visual Design: Rubria Rocha de Luna (with ChatGPT-4 AI Code Assistance)

• Literary Inspiration: Leonardo Flores’s Juracán Boriqueño (2023)

• Technology: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (Vanilla).

• Text fragments were collected from public messages on X (formerly Twitter).

All rights reserved © Rubria Rocha de Luna, 2024.