ABSTRACT
Considering contradictory discourses in economic and cultural relationships between American and Mexican borders during rising globalization and the Internet, this text shows how Tijuana-based media artists reflect border conditions through different media strategies and concepts from digital culture. By reviewing two case studies linked to cyberactivism, Internet-based art, and open source platforms, the text discusses the complex dynamics that artists maintain in relation to border, demonstrating its contradictions, fluctuating between hegemonic and marginalized positions, while encouraging borderhack actions from a geopolitical point of view. With the use of ethnographic data, this chapter approaches the role of situated knowledge and actions in the development of digital art, as well as the impact of digital culture in the management of diasporic identities that want to stress and surpass social inequality as a border inherent condition. Thus, this shows how digital art can contribute to underline the effects that sociopolitical and territorial concrete borders produce over bodies according to their political positions.
