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Audio Slideshow: Artists on the U.S. Border They Never Knew About
All around the United States is a 100-mile border zone where one can be searched and one's things seized. Policies way beyond what the constitution allows is regularly implemented. Artists drew on select sites. Here's what they realized.

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Border Fiction Made Real: How Search and Seizure Laws Degrade on the 100-Mile Border Zone
Created by policymakers in the 1940s, the border zone extends 100 miles inland from the nation’s land and sea boundaries and houses nearly two-thirds of the U.S. population. It's also where the 4th amendment rights of the people have been subverted.

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Artists Stage a Draw-In at Pt. Mugu, Beautiful Site and Military Testing Facility
As part of the "Incendiary Traces" project, Hillary Mushkin took artists to Pt. Mugu to do some surveiling and drawing of their own.

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Machines for Training: Military Performance and Embodied Knowledge
"Incendiary Traces" examines how military groups employ simulation, role-playing, and performance to deliver training required to operate in the extreme conditions of combat.

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Desert Deployment: Southern California's World War II Desert Training Center
Thirty miles east of Indio, California in a largely uninhabited desert landscape, sits the largest military training ground in U.S. history, though you might not have heard of it.
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Imagining Global War: Popular Cartography During World War II
Incendiary Traces looks at the cartographic representations of WWII in the 1940s, providing historical context for understanding our own conception of global space.

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Incendiary Traces: Sketching Simulated Battlefields in Silicon Beach
Incendiary Traces pays a virtual visit to an Afghani village to make the seemingly remote conflict a bit more comprehensible to those in the U.S.
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Visualizing War: Virtual Reality, Simulations, and Physical Battlefields
Simulations in computer games and virtual reality are radically altering the way the military prepares soldiers for war.
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Incendiary Traces: Artists, Surveillance and Patrol at the Border
Incendiary Traces visited the Mexico/U.S. Border to view the border from the perspective of U.S. Border Patrol agents.
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Crossing the Line: A History of Medical Inspection at the Border
In the early 1900s, medical inspection and photographic documentation ushered in a new set of surveillance procedures for state oversight at the U.S.-Mexico border.