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Cybracero

Many moons ago at the Bronx Museum, we caught a great bit of satiric video art entitled Why Cybraceros?. We'll let the artist himself, Alex Rivera, explain the riotous concept:

In his second film, Why Cybraceros? (USA 1997), Rivera sarcastically imagined a future in which migrant farm workers (or Braceros) could work in America, but never actually come to America, by controlling robotic workers over the internet from their country of origin. The Cybracero concept started as a surrealist satire o

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Published on August 10, 2009 08:11
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